I was an only child who always wanted a brother or sister. When I was around 8 years old, an older friend told me that the way to tell if my mother was going to have a baby was to look under her bed, and it there was dust under there, that meant that my mother was pregnant. I watched the dust accumulate under my parent's bed for a couple of years and kept watching to see if my mother's tummy was growing before I found out that it wasn't true!
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- When i was young,my mother told me that she picked me up from the park. i believed it for a few years— Jennifer~
- My little brother once asked my mother when we past a couple of factories.. if the factories made clouds— nicky
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth