Up until I was thirteen, when my mom gave me "The Talk" with the medical book, I thought a mom got pregnant by a dad feeding her his sperm with a spoon and then a baby would grow in the mom's stomach.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant, she fed the baby with a tiny spoon through her belly button.— Marie
- a friend of mine thought that you could get pregnant by swallowing sperm. Ha!Anon
- 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 thought sperm were fish and when I got a goldfish I went around telling everyone i had a sperm— Kara
- 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 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.