When i was 3 my mother gave me a G-rated version of "the talk" and my weird little imagination came up with this: the daddy and mommy get naked and sit on the couch. they hold hands, and look straight ahead. if they look down, nothing happens. while they look ahead, a little fish (my mom called sperm "swimmies") jumps out of the daddy's belly button and lands in the mommy's belly button where there is an egg (one she ate for breakfast or something) in her stomach waiting for the fish. the fish eats the egg, and it turns into a baby. i was afraid to eat eggs for a long time because i didn't want a little brother or sistyer. i still don't like eating eggs to this day, 17 years later.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- When I was a boy I flushed my fish down the toilet thinking that it would go to its mommy and daddy.— Jeremy Clark
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F
- my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.— johnboy
- For the longest time I thought that tapioca pudding was really fish eggs in pudding.— Liz
- I used to believe that Mother Nature was The wife of God. She was the mommy and he was the daddy. — Dawn
- I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K