When I was little, I asked about how a woman got pregnant. My mom explained that a man planted a seed in a woman and it grew like in a garden. For years I thought there was dirt and plants in my moms belly and my dad was planting seeds there and this scared me!
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant, she fed the baby with a tiny spoon through her belly button.— Marie
- I used to falsely believe that planting a fruit pip in the garden would actually grow a tree or bush.— Natasha
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo
- 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 little I used to think that as soon as you were married the woman automatically got pregnant.Anon