A childhood belief about getting pregnant

When I asked where babies came from (age 5) I was initially given a silly explanation (the cabbage patch one I think), but demanded a proper answer, so I was given a detailed and truthful scientific description and also shown a documentary on the whole process that my parents taped specially for me. I knew there had to be a Mummy and a Daddy who were married and that they had to love each other. I knew they had to cuddle and kiss and the man had to put his 'dinky' inside her 'muff' - this whole process seemed very boring to me. Then I thought the man peed in her and his pee had special tadpoles in that were much smaller than the tadpoles we had at school and were specially to make babies.

Luckily I knew when, where and how they came out, and that it was very painful and messy.

But when I questioned why there were stories in newspapers about teenage girls being pregnant (this is in the 1980's when the British teen-pregnancy problem began) I was told it was because 'there was something wrong with them' and I thought it must be a terrible disease!

However, after my sister was born when I was 7 I became very knowledgable on the whole matter and educated all my classmates. I'll never forget the day a friend looked really pleased with herself and said 'Think of what Mary and Joseph had to do to get Jesus!' and I pointed out to her that Mary was a virgin and Jesus was put there by God. She was laughed at a lot for that.