When I was four, I asked my mom, "How does a baby get in the mommy's tummy?"
My mom looked up, sighed, and said, "You wish for one."
For a few years, I was really worried that if I accidentally wished for a baby, I'd end up a pregnant child.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I told my son that he used to be in my tummy when he was 4. So he asked me," Mommy why did you swollow me?"
— Christopher's mom - when i was 5 years old I thought that a pregnant women deliever the baby by vomiting it — Nesreen Tashkandi
- when i was 2 or 3 believed that i had lots of animals in my tummy it made sense my mum had baby in hers.— kjc
- I used to believe that when you were pregnant, if you went to the toilet your baby would come out. — 2 Awesome
- I used to believe that you got pregnant by drinking the man's wee wee!! Yeuck! I was never having a baby!!— A
- A friend of mine used to think that you got pregnant from eating baby food.— Jemima