For a long time, I thought that the word "premie" meant a baby born without hair. (I think this was because the Premie Cabbage Patch doll my neighbor had was bald).
A childhood belief about giving birth

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that Cabbage Patch Kids were made from real cabbage XD— foxxip
- I thought my neighbor breastfed her baby because they were too poor to afford baby bottles. Maybe they were!— Kristen
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- My parents told me that babies were made from dimonds under cabbage patches, that would grow into a baby.Anon
- When I was younger I cut my Barbie doll's hair and wondered why it never grew back.Anon
- I used to think that bleaching your hair meant washing your hair with toilet bleach.Anon