getting pregnant

I thought that if a boy bumped into a girl from behind she would become pregnant. This fear stems from a time when i was wrestling with one of my brothers friends over a yard stick and he goes, careful you might make her pregnant. I was terrified for nine months. plus every time someone bumped into my behind on accident i thought i was pregnant. I thought i was pregnant like 4 times.

Kristin

when i was 6 my mum was pregnant, and for some strange reason i got the words 'pregnant' and 'spasticated' mixed up. When i went with my mum for a check up the receptionist said, so... what do we have here? and i said, my mums spasticated!!!!! in a really excited way because i was excited about my new brother/sister

by someone clever.....

When i was little i used to believe that you could make babies by putting a seed on the other persons belly button and then lying on top of them. Me and my sister used to try it all the time, until we were told the REAL story of reproduction.

Izzie

When I was a little boy, I thought that both women and men have penises like myself. To make a baby, the man must urinate inside a woman's anus. After a while the woman's stomach begins to swell when the baby is formed inside the woman's stomach. Then the baby comes out in a torrent of diarrhea after about a year. I reasoned that because some women couldn't take the pain when pushing out the baby, they died during childbirth. Therefore, I believed my theory was quite correct... till I read the book by Lynda Madaras "The What's Happening to my body - Book for boys." during the early years of my puberty.

Little Johnny

When I was about 7 Years old I was using a public restroom, the women watching me scolded me for not putting toilet paper on the seat first before using it. She said so you know what you can get from sitting on a public toilet seat? I replied yes, you can get pregnant. It was many years later I found out why she laughed os hard.

Rebekah

I used to think that women got pregnant if she and a man sat beside each other close enough when I was about 4. This was soon discovered by my sister when I watched The Lion King movie, and when I saw Simba and Nala standing beside each other in one scene, I said, "They better be careful! They might accidentally have babies!" She then explained that that's not how women got pregnant. I was very confused for years after that.

SparkyTheOtherReindeer

I used to believe that if a girl didn't want to get pregnant that all she had to do was have sex with two different boys, one right after the other. The resulting sperms would fight and kill each other off before impregnation could occur. Such "birth control" ignorance of children/teens is utterly amazing and there should be sex ed, with a section on "false ideas about how to avoid pregnancy."

didn't try this, thank god

When I was about 5 my mom was pregnant with my sister and I asked her "how do you get pregnant?" After a few seconds of her going "um...uh..." she finally told me, "you have to dream it!" So up until I was 12 I thought that the mom and the dad both had to have the same dream at the same time that they took an elevator up to heaven and told God that they wanted to have a baby. Of course now I know better.

Anon

I used to believe that when two people wanted to have a baby they had to be in a room naked and turn up the thermostat. We had just learned about evaporation and i thought that a mans "stuff" evaporated and so did the womans egg. it would float up into steam and make a cloud.Then the cloud would go down through the womans belly button and become the baby. I was quite off wasnt I? =)

Anon

When I was a kid, I thought the number of children in a family represented the number of times the parents had sex.

My best friend was from a family with eight kids, so I thought his parents were sex maniacs.

Too embarrased to say

My little sister and I grew up with a family of boys the same ages as we were. At one point, the oldest boy (about 7) thought he figured out how to make babies, and him and I always assumed we would get married. So we decided to "make babies." He lied down on top of me with us both fully clothed for about 5 minutes. I tried to convince my mom that night that I was pregnant. She indulged me and told me to starting thinking of kids' names.

Anon

I used to believe that people got pregnant just by spending a lot of time together, and then the sperm from the man would magically go into the woman's body and multiply and race towards the egg, and the winner of the sperm race determined what the gender of the egg was.

Anon

I used to believe that you got pregnant magically once you got married, and that you only carried the baby for a few hours!

Anon

I used to believe that babies were made when the bride and groom kissed at the wedding

Anon

When my little brother (let's pretend his name was George) was about 4 or 5, he asked our mom how he got here. Mom said something like, "Well, we'd wanted and prayed for another baby for a while, and one day, God made sure a little 'George seed' started to grow inside Mommy. And when you got big enough, we went to the hospital so the doctor could help get you out."

I thought that prayer was a necessary part of the process of becoming pregnant! It turned out that I learned what abortion was before learning how sex worked, so for a while I was really confused about why someone would PRAY FOR A BABY, then not want it when it actually showed up inside her.

Anon

I used to believe that once a girl "did it" just once, she would get pregnant more than once..as if that little sperm was embedded in her system for life.

Donna..Minnesota

i used to believe that women get pregnant if a man pisses over the toilet sit and then she sits down on it.

jongres

When I was little, and still to this day, my mom tells me the same story.

"Babies are made when the daddy gives the mommy a seed". That's about all she told me, so of course I was very confused and sort of figured out my own conclusion. I thought the "daddy" had a "seed" (like the flower kind), and he gave it to the "mommy", and then she would take that seed and somehow stick it up her butt, and out came the baby! LOL!!

Anon

I used to believe that you could only get pregnant when you were married, and that when you did the baby grew from a seed that was in your stomach

~Hana~

I used to think that you got pregnant EVERY time you had sex. My parents taught me about sex very young, and while they told me that people had sex just to have fun, for at least a year, I thought, "But what do they do about all the babies they have?"

Kat