When I was younger, the only baby shower I attended occurred after the baby was born. So, I thought a "baby shower" was when they were going to give the baby an actual shower!
A childhood belief about giving birth

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a baby shower was a tiny bathtub with a showerhead just for the baby.— Amy
- I used to believe that take a shower meant to go steal a shower from the storeAnon
- I used to think that toilets led to the shower head. That's why I never took a shower :D— scared
- 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
- When I was 5 I thought that baby boys came from men and baby girls came from women...— Gaz