My poor Dad was mortified by my questions about where babies come from, so he told me that he had planted a seed in Mummy's tummy. I honestly believed that he dug up Mummy's tummy with a spade (while he was naked too, bizarrely enough), and planted a single seed. I couldn't understand how a seed could grow in blood and guts instead of soil, but I suppose I didn't ponder it too much at that age.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- if you eat a seed, the plant will grow in your tummyAnon
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- I used to believe babies came from a seed and an eggAnon
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- I used to believe that a tree would grow inside you if you ate the seed of an apple or any other fruit!Anon