I used to think the phrase 'expecting a baby', as in being pregnant, meant that you actually expected a baby to do something.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you were pregnant, if you went to the toilet your baby would come out. — 2 Awesome
- I used to believe that you got pregnant by drinking the man's wee wee!! Yeuck! I was never having a baby!!— A
- A friend of mine used to think that you got pregnant from eating baby food.— Jemima
- i thought - when i was pregnant - i could dye my hair blond, and my baby wouldn´t be brunette as i am.— judi (peru)
- when i was 5 years old I thought that a pregnant women deliever the baby by vomiting it — Nesreen Tashkandi
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura