getting pregnant

When my cousin was really little up until she was about 13 believed that if a woman sat on a toilet seat, she would get pregnant. So she always used to squat when she'd pee, or so she said. lol

My father also used to tell us girls when we were little and in our teens, that if we slept with the curtains open and moonbeams shone on us while we were sleeping, that we would get pregant. Later I found out that he only told us that to prevent us from leaving the curtains open at night and catching a cold from a wayward draft. I still have trouble sleeping with the curtains open though! lol

Anon

when i was five or six, I used to believe that women got pregnant when they drank slim fast (I have no idea why)... I remember that my mom let me have a taste of it once and I was convinced that I was pregnant. I would stick my belly out as far as I could and see if anyone noticed that I was "expecting"

kellybelly

when i was about 5 or so, me and my mom were talking, and somehow the subject became babies, birth, things like that (i still didnt know how babies were made though). i also dont know how this came up, but my mom told me that my babysitter was old enough to have a baby. my babysitter then was like...15 or so, and i was shocked. before this conversation, my mom had always told me that people could only have babies after they got married (believing in no pre-marital sex) and my 15-year-old was definitely not married. of course she was talking about menstruating and stuff, meaning she was just capable of having a baby. i had no clue about this, so i was SOOOOO deathly afraid that when i got to be her age, that i would just magically become pregnant, just out of the blue. i wondered how so many girls managed to stay un-pregnant because this could just happen to anyone when you were old enough...oh, how naive i was...

i know a lot more than i did then

I used to believe you could get pregnant by eating a whole jar of peanut butter. My mom couldn't figure out why I refused PB&J sandwiches for months on end! Needless to say, when I found out the truth, I didn't trust my babysitter anymore!

Anon

i took a sex ed class and i guess the teacher didnt explain it very well. i thought the the sperm crawled out of the boy and into the girl. so i never sat near a boy because his sperm might crawl into me and make me pregnant.

tara

I used to believe that you had to have sex for 24 hours to get pregnant.

Heather

I used to believe that God gave you a baby when he thought you should have one. I continued to believe this after having to drop out of college and get married. When my daughter was 4 months old I thought I was pregnant again and I FLIPPED OUT! My best friend, who was NOT Catholic explained birth control to me. I'm glad she did! I am done after 2 kids.

Mo

When I was really young, I used to believe that the reason I had a slightly round belly was because I had become pregnant from sharing a bath with my brother...

E. Pat

When I was little I overheard my mom talking about one of her friends who was pregnant. She was saying how the friend was pretty nervous about everything because "she had suffered from miscarriage before." I thought she was saying "Miss Carriage" and couldn't understand why people would make fun of her for being pregnant!

Jenn

When I was very young I thought all women were born pregnate and as you grew up the baby inside you developed until you eventually gave birth. So was a toddler I'd go around rubbing my belly and telling people I was pregnate.

Kali

The first time I masturbated, I thought I was going to get pregnant by my own hand.

Anon

I was raised in a very religious household and repeatedly told over the years that I could get pregnant even during my period. I took this to mean that you could only get pregnant during your period. When I lost my virginity at 17, I told the guy we didn't need to worry about a condom, because I wasn't on my period. Thankfully, I didn't get pregnant. Thanks, abstinence only education!

Carolina

when i was about 9 i used to think that when a woman was due to have a baby all she'd have to do was push her bellybutton back in (sometimes it pops out) this was of course until i asked my mum who carefully explained everything to me.

Rachel4Will

when i was younger my mom told me, you get pregnant when you & your bf/gf both ate alot of bread. i bleieved this until i was ten :|

chelsea(:

When I was a child, I thought that I was originally in the 'tummy' of an old French woman, but everyone thought I should be in my own mummy's tummy, so the teleported me over there.

Adam

My grandma told me right after I finished 6th grade (in 1969) that I was not to get a bikini or two-piece for a swim suit, because it would attract boys and I would wind up pregnant.

Sarah

When I was 5 or 6 years old, I believed all babies were conceived via immaculate conception. It worked like this: a married couple had to say their vows and then pray real hard that God would bless them with a baby.

I told my mom I wanted another baby sister, so she and dad should pray every day for one. She said no. I decided maybe I could have the baby if God blessed me, so I prayed fervently for a week t. I didn't work.

Anon

My science teacher told me that when you reach puberty, the stuff that makes a woman pregnant begins to appear in your *urine*. I was forced to draw the conclusion that a man had to pee inside the woman to make her pregnant!

Rob

I used to believe that god would at some point make you pregnant, but he would tell you to get married first, and if you didn't get married when he told you to he would make you pregnant to let everyone know you didn't listen and that's why it was bad to be pregnant if you weren't married. Also that you could hold off being pregnant by praying a lot and being really holy, which is why grandmothers and nuns didn't get pregnant. Grandmothers were sort of pickled in holiness, so they never got pregnant, but sometimes nuns would pretend to be praying and they'd really be thinking about television, so after a few warnings god would make them pregnant to let everyone know they were slacking off on the praying which is why it was a huge bad thing if a nun got pregnant.

Julia

I used to believe that I wouldn't get pregnant if I went to bed with a man as long as I had knickers on-this stopped the sperm even though it had managed run across the bed from him to me!

Clare