A lady friend reported that as a child when she was sent to the bakery to get a seeded rye on the way home she would eat all the seeds off the top believing that was how she would get a baby (which she wanted thinking it as more of a doll than a baby).
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- I thought my neighbor breastfed her baby because they were too poor to afford baby bottles. Maybe they were!— Kristen
- on "highway to hell" i always thought it goes "baby see, baby do" instead of "hey satan, payin´ my dues"— Miss Understood
- That because Gerber Baby Food had a baby on it real babies were put in there. Thanks a lot cousin!— Nicole
- I used to believe that a baby shower was a tiny bathtub with a showerhead just for the baby.— Amy
- When I was 5 I thought that baby boys came from men and baby girls came from women...— Gaz
- When I was 5, I used to believe that every time you wanted to have a baby you had to throw a wedding.— Maze