I believed until I was about seven that, when a woman reached a certain age, she automatically had a baby. I wasn't sure I wanted children, so I used to constantly ask my mom, "How can I not have a baby when I grow up?"
She thought I was asking about birth control, so the answer was always, "I'll tell you when you're older."
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to think that to give birth, a woman had a slit cut into her inner thigh, and the baby would come out.Anon
- I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K - Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys— Cassidy K
- I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- 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
- I thought that if a black man and a white woman (or reverse) had a baby it would be stripped!— Bec