I thought once a woman got married, she would just randomly get pregnant every now and then, and she would have to either have the baby (painful) or swallow a pill to have an abortion (this was long before RU-486 was invented). I hated swallowing pills, so I was glad I wasn't a woman.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- Whwn I was like 8 I used to believe woman just got pregnant randomly. Anon
- When I was little I used to think that as soon as you were married the woman automatically got pregnant.Anon
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie
- I thought that a woman got pregnant kind of like catching a cold, by being around her husband for a long time.— No Name
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura