Somehow I'd figured out the parts involved in making a baby but sex had never been explained to me. I worked out that while the man and the woman were asleep in bed, the sperm would crawl out of the man's penis and into the woman's vagina and then she would just wake up pregnant.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that the man peed in the woman to get her pregnant. Didn't know about sperm until sex ed. — das
- I used to believe that a baby's sex was determined by whether the sperm had a picture of a man or woman on it.— David E.
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura
- 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 think that if a black woman or man and a white woman or man had a baby, it would be Asian.Anon
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie