I used to think that when Mums were pregnant, they had to swallow orange and lemon pips so that little trees would grow so tha the babies would have something to eat
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman - I used to believe that if I swallow chewing gum, a rubber tree will grow on my head!— Farry Aprianto
- Spaghettis grow on trees.Anon
- I really used to believe that money DID grow on trees— Kim