I used to think a couple would pray to God for a baby and God would make the baby and put it in the woman's tummy until it was ready to come out.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- That to make a baby a man (over 21 & under 25) had to kiss a woman (over 19 & under 21).— Johny
- 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 think that if a black woman or man and a white woman or man had a baby, it would be Asian.Anon
- I used to believe that a baby's sex was determined by whether the sperm had a picture of a man or woman on it.— David E.
- I used to think that to give birth, a woman had a slit cut into her inner thigh, and the baby would come out.Anon
- I thought that if a black man and a white woman (or reverse) had a baby it would be stripped!— Bec