my parents used to tell me that babies grew in fields, and people collected them.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- When I first heard Stawberry Fields Forever, I misheard the lyrics as Strawberry Fields For Trevor.— Matt
- i used to believe that babies grew in the ground and that they were hatched from potapoes— Brooke
- My sister was convinced that when she grew up she was going to have puppies instead of babies— leohauoli
- 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
- I thought planes collected clouds to make cotton balls.— Eddie