Somehow I knew that in order to get pregnant something from the man had to get inside the woman - and I knew that they had to sleep in the same bed for it to happen.
So for the longest time I thought while the man and the woman were sleeping, whatever it was would crawl out of the man and walk across the sheets and into the woman and make her pregnant.
The thing I worried about was how did it know which way to go in the dark on the sheets and what if it crawled into the wrong person or simply got lost? Did it die? Did it hang around and wait for the next person to get in bed?
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I thought that a woman got pregnant kind of like catching a cold, by being around her husband for a long time.— No Name
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie
- When I was little I used to think that as soon as you were married the woman automatically got pregnant.Anon
- Whwn I was like 8 I used to believe woman just got pregnant randomly. Anon
- I use to believe that the man peed in the woman to get her pregnant. Didn't know about sperm until sex ed. — das
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura