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AIBU to think it odd to tell children where they were conceived?

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ramorna · 09/06/2026 23:14

To think it’s odd to tell your kids where they were conceived?

I’ve always had a love of Italy and even went on to study Italian at university. My mum recently and rather casually dropped into conversation that I was conceived in Rome!

My parents had been in Rome for two weeks that summer.

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lilkitten · 12/06/2026 14:28

Had this conversation with 15yo DS the other day, though not my choice. He really wanted to know if he'd been conceived in Hong Kong (as we were on honeymoon there) as he thought it would make an exotic story, but no I was already pregnant by the time we went there.

OhBettyCalmDown · 11/06/2026 21:44

It’s not so bad telling your adult child this info but even so I just can’t imagine needing to casually drop into conversation well that’s where you were conceived..,,

JillThePlantKiller · 11/06/2026 21:42

I came from a power cut when they couldn’t watch tv.

EverythingGolden · 11/06/2026 21:39

My mum told me as an adult where I was conceived whilst I was enjoying a foodstuff associated with the region. I just found it quite funny.

topcat2014 · 11/06/2026 21:37

Tell this to Brooklyn Beckham

hahabahbag · 11/06/2026 21:32

It’s fine in a modified way if genuinely interesting as a story, much weirder if it’s a bit sordid

BauhausOfEliott · 11/06/2026 21:27

Theseagullsarenowclouds · 10/06/2026 19:59

I thought Brooklyn was named after where Posh was when she found out she was pregnant.

Yes, he was. I don’t know why people always say that’s where he was conceived.

HoppityBun · 11/06/2026 20:05

Morepositivemum · 09/06/2026 23:17

In Ireland there was a baby boom after the pope came to Ireland in 1979. A lot of people told me their parents told me they were conceived about then so no apparently not such a strange thing for parents to tell their children 😅

But that’s when, which could be guessed anyway.

The question is about where the conception takes place. Wonderful if Crete, Chelsea or Brooklyn.

Less so if it was the Withybush car park or behind the Dog and Dick.

WhatcakeshalIbaketoday · 11/06/2026 20:00

Sanguinello · 11/06/2026 18:39

I remember on Friday Night Dinner Martin was grossing out Johnny and Adam talking about where they were "formed."

Such a funny programme that was. 🤣🤣

ourSusie · 11/06/2026 19:57

Sanguinello · 11/06/2026 16:44

Thanks for clarifying Victoria. Conceived in a bookstore you say? Glad it wasn't a butchers or he might have been named Leg o lamb

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this has to be one of the most irrational comments here on Mumsnet

user293948849167 · 11/06/2026 19:28

Adult kids when they know for sure like this situation- of course it’s fine!

Pretty sure my eldest DD was conceived in a tent (on a camping holiday), but won’t be telling her that!

vdbfamily · 11/06/2026 19:22

I think it is okay. My eldest was made in South Africa and youngest in New Zealand. They both know that.

reluctantbrit · 11/06/2026 18:48

DD knows but I can't remember how old she was.

It came up in a discussion about gaining a nationality by being born in a particular country and we joked that being conceived should also count and she would then have three passports (she is already has dual-nationality from us parents). She asked where and we told her. End of story and I don't think she got traumatised by it.

Sanguinello · 11/06/2026 18:39

I remember on Friday Night Dinner Martin was grossing out Johnny and Adam talking about where they were "formed."

itsgettingweird · 11/06/2026 18:08

The circumstance you describe would be fine for me.

It’s not exactly hard to date a pregnancy and conception and the fact they sent 2 weeks in Rome about 9 months before you were born would be a dead giveaway.

I wouldn’t advocate telling child they were conceived in the kitchen of number 10 Billy Drive on the 3rd of July 1967 during a power cut!

Bertiebiscuit · 11/06/2026 17:11

Sanguinello · 10/06/2026 01:14

That's how Brooklyn Beckham got his name as he was conceived there

But in fairness the Beckhams are weird - thrones at their wedding, suggestive dancing with son. At his wedding ....... All very weird.

Feetballislife · 11/06/2026 17:10

ramorna · 09/06/2026 23:14

To think it’s odd to tell your kids where they were conceived?

I’ve always had a love of Italy and even went on to study Italian at university. My mum recently and rather casually dropped into conversation that I was conceived in Rome!

My parents had been in Rome for two weeks that summer.

Not as an adult. Presumably you were aware of where babies come from???

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 11/06/2026 17:05

Yeah i dont think my twins' lives will be enhanced by learning they were conceived on a sheepskin rug in a Cleethorpes caravan after a night on Diamond White. Grin

FragrantPalms · 11/06/2026 16:58

Phineyj · 11/06/2026 16:38

Florence Nightingale was born in Florence. It was her sister Parthenope one feels more sorry for!

Parthenope is a nicer name than Naples, though, which is where Florence's sister was born! And no odder than Penelope, I suppose...?

Sanguinello · 11/06/2026 16:44

ourSusie · 10/06/2026 10:43

Actually, he wasn’t! He was conceived in Copenhagen.
They were in NYC when they discovered Victoria was pregnant.
Cruz was conceived/born in Madrid
Romeo was conceived on a balcony
Harper was conceived in a bookstore

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Thanks for clarifying Victoria. Conceived in a bookstore you say? Glad it wasn't a butchers or he might have been named Leg o lamb

Phineyj · 11/06/2026 16:38

Florence Nightingale was born in Florence. It was her sister Parthenope one feels more sorry for!

Nettie1964 · 11/06/2026 16:21

So many things to get traumatised over. In the big scheme of things it wouldnt bother me my Dad used to joke that my mum tricked him into having me a year early. He loved me dearly and never worried about it. Honestly are people getting super sensitive now. Imagine the therepy needed if you got told you were the product of rate or an unsuccessful termination! It is TMI but surely not damaging.

SherbetDipDap · 10/06/2026 23:19

Our 7 year old knows that he was conceived in Mexico. Not the specifics (damned if I can remember them either. It was a brilliant holiday 🤣) but just generally ‘we made you on holiday in Mexico after we visited an ancient Mayan fertility temple’. He thinks its cool.

I remember my mum telling me (when quite tipsy) ‘you were conceived the night before your cousin’s christening, I remember because I was really hungover when I was doing the godmother stuff’ 🤣 I am not traumatised by this fact. We all know how babies are made ffs.

InterestedDad37 · 10/06/2026 23:13

Don't think I'd ever tell my children
Yes, Cleethorpes, Llandudno and BehindTheStadium don't need to know that kind of information.

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