When I was 5 my mother had twins. I was overjoyed at having a new brother and sister but they had stolen my bedroom (the big one) and I had to move into the little room. To be assured that I would be not kicked out of this room I asked my mother one day if she had had her baby maker turned off. I'm not sure where I came up with the idea but I can clearly remember what a "baby maker" looked like. I thought there was a metal tube inside a woman that made babies and when a woman decided to not have any more children the doctor would turn the big red switch on the side to OFF. My mother assured me that her baby maker had been turned off.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- i used to think the pulp mill was a cloud maker and later i thought it was a cheezie maker— boo
- I used to believe I could become a cloud-maker.— Emdee
- 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
- When I was little I believed that the mother vomited the baby. Anon
- That because Gerber Baby Food had a baby on it real babies were put in there. Thanks a lot cousin!— Nicole
- I thought that if a black man and a white woman (or reverse) had a baby it would be stripped!— Bec