What did you believe as a kid that you kept believing for much longer than was reasonable? Did you think kissing really could get you pregnant until you were 17? Did you think swallowing an apple seed really would make a tree grow in your stomach until just now?
What did you believe?
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
Santa was real until I was 8, so was the Easter Bunny. I was pretty gullible.
I was 9 before I found out about Santa. I woke up in the middle of the night and walked into the living room to see my mom typing a message for me on my new Tandy computer from "Santa." Funny thing is, it still didn't click with me until the next day when I overheard my mom tell my aunt how I "found out" about Santa. Thanks, Mom. I could've gone on a couple more years believing!
Also... My brother straight up told me that Santa was fake. I was 9, he was 4.
Then he really destroyed me by telling me that all of those other imaginary creepy holiday characters were too.
That's great. haha.
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
So, when I was a kid I watched a movie called "Cat's Eye" (Stephen King). I was terrified that there was a liitle troll who lived in my wall and that we would come out at night to steal my breath. I started sleeping with my blankets over my mouth/nose. Yeah, this fear and habit didn't really go away until I was in high school.
I figured it out when I learned how to measure with a ruler and documented my nose length.
This is awesome.
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
I thought sex was this huge hours long production that was supposed to take up most of your evening until about two years ago. I blame the Viagra warnings (If you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours...)
TTGP since September 2013. All cycles were annovulatory due to Depo.
OMG... very embarrassing one, I believed that if it was 'just the tip' then it wasn't sex and there was no chance of pregnancy. I believed that all through high school. X_X
TTGP since September 2013. All cycles were annovulatory due to Depo.
I thought sex was this huge hours long production that was supposed to take up most of your evening until about two years ago. I blame the Viagra warnings (If you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours...)
I blame rap songs.
To be completely honest, I didn't know that 5-10 mins was normal until I joined here. You can't imagine my relief lol
TTGP since September 2013. All cycles were annovulatory due to Depo.
Those of you who believed in Santa for a good amount of time, were you pretty upset when you found out?
My SO doesn't want us to do the Santa thing with our kids. Mostly because she remembers feeling lied to and like she couldn't trust her parents after she found out.
I don't remember it being a big deal. I kind of figured it out and went on with my life. I was still getting toys?
I just know if she gets her way then we will have THOSE kids who ruin it for everyone else. Great.
Ok I believed in Santa till I was old enough to get beat up for it. My parents kept telling me the kids were wrong so me and my big mouth kept telling at the kids to correct them (and then get beat). I remember hating that I had to figure it out on my own and those kids always thought I was weird. Luckily we moved about a year later.
TTGP since September 2013. All cycles were annovulatory due to Depo.
I didn't know about vagina's for a little while, and thought babies were born via anus. Ouch. I didn't know how they got in there, but that was the only place I thought there was for them to come out...
Also, I thought that women could get pregnant as just a natural part of their life cycle. As in: when you're a certain age, you 'just get' your period one day, and then in your twenties (thirties, forties etc.) you 'just get' pregnant (a few times...) Even after sex ed I was very worried about it. And we aren't religious at all so I can't even blame that...
There wasn't much I actually truly believed, it was moreso that I was afraid of the consequences if I went against what my parents said...I knew Santa's wasn't real, but I also know he's not the devil. I never believed Jesus was real either, hence why I became pagan later on. My mom told me bs lies about sex (hugging a boy gets you pregnant, using tampon takes away your virginity) I knew they weren't true, but again fear was instilled... I think the one thing I truly believed in was imaginary friends, which sadly lasted into high school. Later I found out through therapy, it was a coping method - my "friends" were the only ones I could talk to and they'd listen. Wow I sound sad hahahaha
Oh, I also thought a blowjob was where you blew on the penis. A friend in college cleared that up for me. He said, "What? That would fucking hurt after awhile!" I had no idea.
I had a friend that actually blew on a penis thinking it was a blow job. She was a college sophomore. This is the same girl that wound up in a bathroom at Costco a week after losing her virginity to find the condom slip back out....made for good drunken stories!
TTGPDecemberSiggyChallenge:FavoriteHolidayMovie: ~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
TTC #1: July 2014 Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
My brother got me to believe that I was born under a rock. The hospital I was born at had this huge rock by emergency sign, so every time we would drive by the hospital I would ask my parents if that was the hospital I was born at. My brother would say no you were born under that rock and I believed him for a good while.
My mom was a single mom until I was 10, and for at least 7 of those years, I legitimately thought that everyone's dad lived in a different place than the mom and the kids. Opps.
Me: 20 | DH: 22
Married May 2013:
TTC since May 2013
Currently making
lifestyle changes in an effort to lose 100 pounds.
I took the phrase "drinking and driving" or "don't drink and drive" literally. I thought that if you drank ANYTHING while you were driving, you would get in huge trouble. I remember getting upset with my dad on a trip because he was drinking a Coke while he was driving. Lol
TTC #1 Since April 2014
Me: 27 | DH: 31
08/2006 - Laparoscopy/Stage 1 Endo
10/2014 - Bloodwork normal, HSG all clear
10/2014 - DH's SA 15mil/mL, 35% motility, 6% morphology
I believed for years that women fell pregnant, like actually fell down to get pregnant.
Where did this belief come from? It's....interesting lol
I overheard my mom gossiping once about someone who fell pregnant. Her way of saying an oopsie baby and i guess my imagination just kind of ran with it lol.
I thought of some more crazy ones. I was the youngest of three with two older brothers who loved to torture me. So I was convinced i was adopted for a good 3 years. My oldest brother would play dead every day and every day id call my mom at work freaking out. I was convinced that we had an elf living on our street. (The guy worked for Keebler and had a truck with the elves logo) I was terrified that clowns would eat me thanks to oldest bro. And i was convinced my middle brother could travel to another planet.
My parents told me if I ate before bed, I would have nightmares. I still wonder if this is true, but once I brush my teeth for the night I don't eat anything else.
DD born on 11/10/2007
TTC Sept-Nov 2012
BFP on 10/25/2012 CP 11/1/2012
Back on BCP
BFP on 10/13/2013 EDD June 26, 2014
Little Girl went to Heaven on January 26, 2014 @ 18 weeks
These all make me laugh! Cognitive development is so interesting!
@krystaloowho MH and I argue about this all the time. I was raised in a very honest, no-nonsense home and always KNEW there was no Santa, Tooth Fairy, etc. I was the kid who ruined it for everyone. H remembers how magical it was to believe in such things and thinks every kid should experience it. I worry about feelings of betrayal once they find out the truth.
@DaisyCat11 Unfortunately, my mother told me EVERYTHING about sex and lingered on details about how it could be enjoyable. Hearing it from my mom did NOT make me want to do this. I could not see how anything she had described to me was enjoyable. I steered clear of sex for quite a while because of it. I really believed it couldn't be pleasurable at all.
@hollyk224 I can relate! I refused to get in the car with my mom if she had a mug of coffee. Would throw myself on the ground and cry and scream at her that I didn't want her to die from drinking and driving.
ME: 33 H: 32 TTC Since 6/2013 Early Loss: 9/2013 MFI Diagnosis: 12/2014
I had heard somewhere that lightning was made when hot and cold reached each other so one time I was in my uncles pool with my family and my dad jumped from the hot tub to the pool and I went into panic mode, then when nothing happened I repeatedly moved my hand from the hot tub to the pool to try and make it happen.
After I saw the Truman Show I thought my life was a tv show for the longest time. It really freaked me out.
I used to believe you could get pregnant by sitting on the toilet.
I still remember back to when I was 5-6ish and went into the men's washroom with my dad and losing my shit over sitting on the toilet, yelling I didn't want to get pregnant.
When I was little, I thought you could have babies without having sex. This did not come from the Bible, but rather Look Who's Talking. I assumed that because Kirstie Alley's character wasn't married, she didn't have sex, and got pregnant somehow (maybe the Sunday School influence was in there somewhere) . The whole sperm and egg scene went right over my head.
In the movie she told her mom she was artificially inseminated.
The mom says something like "now you and a popsicle are having a baby?"
Re: GTKY: When I was a kid...
3 failed IUI cycles
Oct '15 - IVF 1 - 10R, 3M, 0F
Sept '16 - IVF - 12R, 11M, 5F and 3 perfect day 5 blasts - MMC 7w5d
Jan '17 - FET 1 - BFP, EDD 10/14
Me: 34; DH: 38; SD: 9
TTC #1 since November 2013
BFP #1: 2/4/14--EDD 10/14/14--CP 2/8/14
BFP #2: 3/1/14--EDD 11/15/14--MMC at 12w6d (baby stopped developing at 11w4d)
D&C 5/13/14; Retained Tissue Found: Cytotec 5/30/14; 2nd D&C 6/20/14
BFP #3: 12/13/14--EDD 8/27/15--MMC at 7 weeks (no fetal pole and measuring 1 1/2 weeks behind)--Cytotec 1/9/15
January 2015: Off to RE for RPL testing
Me: 34; DH: 38; SD: 9
TTC #1 since November 2013
BFP #1: 2/4/14--EDD 10/14/14--CP 2/8/14
BFP #2: 3/1/14--EDD 11/15/14--MMC at 12w6d (baby stopped developing at 11w4d)
D&C 5/13/14; Retained Tissue Found: Cytotec 5/30/14; 2nd D&C 6/20/14
BFP #3: 12/13/14--EDD 8/27/15--MMC at 7 weeks (no fetal pole and measuring 1 1/2 weeks behind)--Cytotec 1/9/15
January 2015: Off to RE for RPL testing
DD: 10 (born August 2004)
Married 03/01/14
TTC#2
BFP: 05/17/2014 EDD: 1/25/15 MMC: 06/30/2014
OITNB anyone?
I think the one thing I truly believed in was imaginary friends, which sadly lasted into high school. Later I found out through therapy, it was a coping method - my "friends" were the only ones I could talk to and they'd listen.
Wow I sound sad hahahaha
~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
Me: 20 | DH: 22
Married May 2013: TTC since May 2013
Currently making lifestyle changes in an effort to lose 100 pounds.
I thought of some more crazy ones. I was the youngest of three with two older brothers who loved to torture me. So
I was convinced i was adopted for a good 3 years.
My oldest brother would play dead every day and every day id call my mom at work freaking out.
I was convinced that we had an elf living on our street. (The guy worked for Keebler and had a truck with the elves logo)
I was terrified that clowns would eat me thanks to oldest bro.
And i was convinced my middle brother could travel to another planet.
Yeah i was gullible.
@krystaloowho MH and I argue about this all the time. I was raised in a very honest, no-nonsense home and always KNEW there was no Santa, Tooth Fairy, etc. I was the kid who ruined it for everyone. H remembers how magical it was to believe in such things and thinks every kid should experience it. I worry about feelings of betrayal once they find out the truth.
@DaisyCat11 Unfortunately, my mother told me EVERYTHING about sex and lingered on details about how it could be enjoyable. Hearing it from my mom did NOT make me want to do this. I could not see how anything she had described to me was enjoyable. I steered clear of sex for quite a while because of it. I really believed it couldn't be pleasurable at all.
@hollyk224 I can relate! I refused to get in the car with my mom if she had a mug of coffee. Would throw myself on the ground and cry and scream at her that I didn't want her to die from drinking and driving.
TTC Since 6/2013 Early Loss: 9/2013 MFI Diagnosis: 12/2014
I still remember back to when I was 5-6ish and went into the men's washroom with my dad and losing my shit over sitting on the toilet, yelling I didn't want to get pregnant.
Awkward for my dad