When I was four, I found out that only women could give birth to babies, but I didn't know how. I wondered if it was my destiny to end up pregnant, and would I know when it happened? One night at dinner, I voiced my fear to mom & dad. I think they had rehearsed their answer about this iffy question before, and they told me "A man and a woman both have to decide they are having a baby." and left anything to do with human anatomy out of it. I'm sure they thought they were being really safe and politically correct, but for a few years I live in fear that if I thought (or worried) about having a baby hard enough, the thought would be strong enough to make myself pregnant. It was mind-torture.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- when i was 5 years old I thought that a pregnant women deliever the baby by vomiting it — Nesreen Tashkandi
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie
- 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
- 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 when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant, she fed the baby with a tiny spoon through her belly button.— Marie