When I was six I thought that mothers already had babies inside them. I knew where they came from, that women had to give birth, but I thought that when the woman chose when to "have" it, like, get pregnant with it. I was not really that far off, when you think about it...
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- That you could give birth to what ever you chose (i.e a girl, a boy, twins, triplets)— Krista Durling
- I used to think that to give birth, a woman had a slit cut into her inner thigh, and the baby would come out.Anon
- I used to think that if a women had a large chest she had babies inside them.— Emily
- When I was younger, I thought that Labour Day was when all sorts of women gave birth.— Greg
- I used to believe that women gave birth to girls and Men gave birth to boys— Rob
- When I was little,
I thought women got pregnant through surgery.— Camille