getting pregnant

When I was about five or six -- old enough to realize that pregnancy and genitals were somehow connected, but too young to have acquired any solid knowledge of the specifics -- I "figured out" that women became pregnant when a man and a woman peed in the same toilet without flushing in between. That's why public bathrooms are "men only" and "women only", but homes with one potty are where mommies and daddies live.

Meowpossum

I used to believe that when a woman discovered she was pregnant, she would ask the father if he wanted to keep it and if he said yes, they would have sex. If they didn't want to keep it, they would do nothing and she wouldn't be pregnant anymore. This was from watching TV soaps.

Anna

I used to believe that if a woman was having twins, it meant that she had sex twice while she was trying to get pregnant, three times with triplets, and so on...

Gina

I used to think you could just GET pregnant - I had no idea how, I thought girls just randomly became pregnant. I was soooo worried I might get pregnant. It took me awhile to figure it out (and some sex ed classes at school...)

Jamie

I used to believe that all girls one day just became pregnant. Like at some magical age it just happened.

niki

about sex,
I used to think that when a male peed in the toilet and didn't flush, and then I went to the bathroom (and it mixed) I would get pregnant. It took my friend's parents years to find out why I was flushing the toilet twice every time I had to go.

Dee

I asked my Mom how She and Dad decided to have me as a baby. She said, "Oh, we just knew", and changed the subject (i,e; I was unexpected). So, for years after that, I just thought grownups would look at each other, raise one eyebrow, and bam, the woman was pregnant. Then I deduced from that, that if I followed a girl around at school long enough, she would become pregnant.

Russell

When I first learnt about sex, I assumed that because Mum had to go to hospital to have a baby, she also had to go there to conceive it. I thought she and Dad had to get up on a sort of operating table to have sex, under the supervision of a nurse. I therefore decided I never wanted to get married.

Shantavira

When I was little (maybe 9) I heard to have a baby you had to "sleep together". Well, when I slept over at my friends house we fell asleep on the couch but so did her brother. I got really worried and I thought I was going to have a baby!

Anon

When I was little i used to think that a girl/woman would get pregnant when she yawned. I thought a bird would drop a sead down and the girl would swallow it and get preganant. I was so scared to yawn when there was a bird around.

Anon

I used to think test tube babies were literally grown in test tubes... and that they would start out in a small one but by 9 months they would be in a really big test tube

eilidh

I am the baby of 4 sisters and to keep me from being interested in boys my dad told me that if I was to talk to boys on the phone I would get pregnant. I believed this story into my teen years and never talked to boys... Until I saw the "GIRLS ONLY FILM". This is when I told my dad that babies don't come from a phone, your silly dad.

Anon

When I was very young I firmly believed that girls got pregnant because they wanted to...in other words if they said they wanted it, it would happen instantaneously. So I spent the better part of every day saying out loud, "I don't want to be pregnant...I don't want to be pregnant..." What a goofball.

Tonya

If u were pregnant with twins that means u had sex for a longer time then people that only got pregnant with 1 baby

Anon

My mom was married twice. My older brother & sister came from the first and I came from the second. So, I thought you needed different husbands for different children. Since I wanted a lot of children, I thought I needed lots of husbands. So, I would go to all the adult male friends of my parents and ask them to be my husband when I was older.

mijav

When I first learned about sperm being single cells I still did not understand what sex was, I suppose I wasn't paying attention in class. At any rate I understood that getting pregnant had to do with sperm getting to the egg. I thought sex was just a man and woman being in bed naked together but I thought that would be so embarrassing so I tried to come up with ways to circumvent the embarrassment. I decided a man could take a bath or shower and then the woman would come and use the bath/shower immediately afterwards if they wanted to have a baby.

Wesley

When we staying at hotel I was about 6 and my sister was about 14. She was going down to the spa by herself and I heard my mum saying "watch out for the old men there! you never know, they take one look at you asleep in the spa and enxt thing you know you wake up pregnant!" from then on I thought that if a man looked at me in the spa i would become pregnant.

Anon

When I was in second grade, I heard people talking on the school bus about sex and getting pregnant. I came home and asked my mom (a very religious woman) about it. She explained that sex was something you do after you're married and that's how women get pregnant; the man and the woman both get naked and kiss and the sperm from the man's "extra part" fertilized the egg that came from the woman's tummy.

I had no idea what the "extra part" was (my parents were divorced and I had a sister, so I had never seen a penis), but I deduced from this that kissing when naked caused a sperm and egg to join in midair between the couple, and then go back into the woman's tummy and make a baby. I thought that you must be completely naked for this to work, so just tying a rope around your waist or something would prevent pregnancy.

Jordana

When I was younger, I used to think that women and men had to have sex every night for the 9 months that a woman was carrying a baby. I thought this was the only way to stay pregnant.

J.J.

As a little girl (6 years old), I read that the was a 10 year old who became a mother. I wondered if I asked God very nicely if He would give me a baby -- even while I was still a little girl -- just He did for the Virgin Mary. I thought God would make the immaculate conception for anybody.

Linda from Southern California