Because TV programems used to always talk about "Keeping" the baby I was convinced until the age of 12 that you got pregnant randomly and then you had sex to keep it- if you ignored it, the baby would go away from inside you.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you were pregnant, if you went to the toilet your baby would come out. — 2 Awesome
- Whwn I was like 8 I used to believe woman just got pregnant randomly. Anon
- I used to believe that you got pregnant by drinking the man's wee wee!! Yeuck! I was never having a baby!!— A
- A friend of mine used to think that you got pregnant from eating baby food.— Jemima
- i thought - when i was pregnant - i could dye my hair blond, and my baby wouldn´t be brunette as i am.— judi (peru)
- when i was 5 years old I thought that a pregnant women deliever the baby by vomiting it — Nesreen Tashkandi