When I was really little and starting asking my mother where babies came from she told me they came from dust. I came up the stairs one day and my mother was vacuuming under her bed. I started screaming and crying because I thought she was killing bunches of babies.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- When I was very little I used to believe that when babies were born they came out of the mother's stomach.— Aerith
- I used to believe that babies came out of their mother's mouth like a small bubble.— Evelyn
- I used to believe that babies came out through the mother's belly and they sewed up the stomach afterwards.— Lucy
- while my son was crying one day, my little brother announced that "babies cry to let off moisture". ha!— i'm laughing WITH you
- I used to believe that boys had boy babies, and girls had girl babies.
That was when I was 3-7. I'm 15 now.— Stefanie Michelle