A childhood belief about reproduction

Being a smart kid who could read at age three has it's disadvantages as well as its benefits.

When I was almost five, reading an encyclopedia that my parents had, the article dealing with pregnancy showed a cross-section diagram of a woman's interior, showing the uterus, the bladder, and the rectum. Since they were grouped in the same picture, I thought they all pertained to pregnancy.

I figured that the mother's first child grew in the uterus, the second child in the bladder, and the third child in the rectum.

Families with four children had me stumped.

Also, my little brain misread the word "muscular" and interpreted it as "musical." I thought unborn babies listened to music while waiting to be born.