When I was little my mum told me that she had bought me from the baby shop. My teachers told me that babies grew inside their mummy's tummys, and somehow, I managed to believe both. I never quite connected the two and thought 'hang on, one of them's got to be wrong...'
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- My mum always told me that she got me because she bought me from the baby shop.— The world looks to me
- I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- I believed (thanks to my mum) that babies grew on "baby trees" and simply 'fell off' when they were ripe!!!— Stace
- My parents told me that babies were made from dimonds under cabbage patches, that would grow into a baby.Anon
- When I was first told about intercourse, I didn't believe it. How could peeing inside a girl make a baby?— Art
- When I was 4, I thought you chose and bought your baby at the hospital. I believed this until I was 6.Anon