My eight-year-old son and six-year-old daughter think that a woman gets pregnant by eating a very, very tiny baby. It then grows in her stomach.
They don't seem bothered by this thought! I'm not going to correct them, until they ask!
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant, she fed the baby with a tiny spoon through her belly button.— Marie
- My 7 year old nephew holds the opinion that the correct name for a pidgeon is a "city chicken".— Bastard
- My 5 year old daughter believes if she picks her nose her bum will fall off !!Anon
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie
- A friend of mine used to think that you got pregnant from eating baby food.— Jemima
- when i was 5 yars old i thought that a baby is born axacly a year after the marifgeAnon