My mother is a baby boomer and when she was young, parents were very secretive and unapproachable when it came to discussions of puberty and sex. Naturally, it was fairly difficult to get accurate information about anything. When my mom was little and first heard that people had to have sex to have a baby, she was disgusted and confided this to her friend. The friend reassured her by saying, "That can't be true. My mother is having a baby, and Daddy is away."
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- When I was little I believed that the mother vomited the baby. Anon
- My friend used to believe baby oil was made from babiesAnon
- To this day my friend (he's 17) swears that chipmunks are baby squirrels.— Liz
- A friend of mine used to think that you got pregnant from eating baby food.— Jemima
- I thought my neighbor breastfed her baby because they were too poor to afford baby bottles. Maybe they were!— Kristen
- on "highway to hell" i always thought it goes "baby see, baby do" instead of "hey satan, payin´ my dues"— Miss Understood