When I first learnt about sex, I assumed that because Mum had to go to hospital to have a baby, she also had to go there to conceive it. I thought she and Dad had to get up on a sort of operating table to have sex, under the supervision of a nurse. I therefore decided I never wanted to get married.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- when i was 4 i believed i could breathe under water, one day i decided to try it and woke up in the hospital!Anon
- When I was 4, I thought you chose and bought your baby at the hospital. I believed this until I was 6.Anon
- I used to believe that women could only get pregnant once they were married and it just sort of happened Anon
- I used to believe that after 9 months, mothers went to the hospital to buy a baby off the doctors.Anon
- I thought when you get married you have to fill out a form to get a baby and then you get one.— Danielle
- when I was little I used to think you had to have a baby before you got married!— Supergirl