I started my monthly cycle fairly young, 11yrs. old, in order to teach me about the birds and the bees my mother, two grandmothers and my aunt sat me down and let me know what was going on and that I was becoming a young woman. They also said that with this whole "monthly thing" my body was getting me ready to be able to make babies when I get married. My granny, God rest her soul, told me that "Young men shouldn't be trying to rub on you and things like that or you will make a baby doing that." Now at 11 I had no clue, the next day I told my friends and they were just as clueless as me, after that conversation with my friends a boy walked by me and brushed up against me and I immediately became pregnant!!!!! I was scared to death. I thought I was pregnant and didn't even know what that was let alone what you do about it. To make a long story short...I finally had that baby 9 years later. Whew...don't let them boys rub on you!!! It takes too long to have kids that way!!!
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- When I was first told about intercourse, I didn't believe it. How could peeing inside a girl make a baby?— Art
- That to make a baby a man (over 21 & under 25) had to kiss a woman (over 19 & under 21).— Johny
- I used to beleive that if you got married getting pregnant was just a random event. I was so scared of boys!— me
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- When I was younger I asked my parents:
"If bees make honey, do flys make marmalade?"— Mike - When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie