getting pregnant

I used to think that they guy had to pee on the girl to get her pregnant. I was terrified of having kids when i grew up because i thought someone would have to pee on me. It was very traumatic. :)

CC

I used to believe that the number of kids you had was directly related to the number of steps in front of the church where you got married.

Anon

I used to believe that the bellybutton was the part of the body where children came out. And that birthmarks were the part of the body that came out first.

Ally

i used to believe that tiny babies lived in the place where your quadricep is, and when you got pregnant the tiny baby would move up your leg into yr stomach and grow bigger!

Anon

I thought that women got pregnant because their husbands chained them to the sink. I don't remember any time limit!

Joe K

I used to think that having sex once could lead to pregnancies for the rest of your life. I figured that that's why married couples had honeymoons, so they could start making babies right away.

Katie

I told a friend of mine when I was younger that if he thought about sex the same time the girl he liked thought about it, she would get pregnant.

a mean blonde

My grandmother told me HER grandmother said that if she sat on a chair a boy had just sat in, she would get pregnant!

Anon

I used to believe that as well as having sex, you could also get pregnant just by chance, randomly, out of the blue, etc.

Clare

I used to believe that when adults had sex, it was only to have children and that it was only for a second, so that a man could let one sperm come out, but what about twins? I believed that the fathers of twins had left it in too long, and two had come out.

Paula

i used to think to make a man ejaculate the woman would have to squeeze his testicles. it never occured to me about unplanned pregnancies and that they just wouldnt do that part of it.

Anon

When I was younger, my mom gave me a book on "Your Body Changing". It wasn't the best written book, and I thought that you could only have a baby if a woman was starting her period. I thought that that was a logical explination for why some couple had trouble having a baby.

When I was really young I thought that you bought a baby kit from a department store like Penny's, because my mom told me that she had bought my baby stuff at Target.

Kelsey

When I was about four, my mom was having another baby and some very weird cravings, so she used to stick these weird white olives on her fingers and eat them one by one. One day I was watching Sesame Street and Wayne Brady was on, who, as you know, is a black man, and his fingernails showed really prominently as white on his dark figers. Well, his fingernails looked just like the white olives my pregnant mom used to eat, so that's what I thought they were. Therefore, any black guy I saw on TV I thought was pregnant.

Kat

I learned about sex when I was 9, but I had a friend who insisted women got pregnant by a man sticking his penis in her mouth - the woman would swallow the sperm and the baby would grow right in her stomach. I knew better, but she was very adamant about it, even telling me she'd seen a picture in the dictionary. I'd like to know what kind of dictionary she was looking at!

Anon

My mom told me that when a man and a woman are in love they just "decide" to have a baby and poof, the woman is pregnant. (Nothing involving body parts.) I was amazed for a long time at the power of thought.

Finally Figured It Out

I used to believe that spermatozoa was like a tongue that came out of the urethra into the woman's vagina, aggressively knocking loose an egg which actively charged it into generating a fetus. I used to believe it would then retract back into the shaft of the penis, pulled by the winding of a spindle inside the body cavity. Something akin to an emergency fire hose.

Gedimin

i used to believe that the only way you could get pregnant was to shower with someone of the opposite sex.

stacy

My four-year-old niece believes that EVERYTHING is made in China, even babies.

My seven-year-old niece argues with her that no, babies are made by your parents. A boy and a girl put the baby in the girl's tummy, using their hands.

chrisnick

This one isn't me, it's my brother.

He's 9, and becoming curious about "the birds and the bees"...:ahem: so he asked my mom, who said "jesus puts the baby in the mommy's tummy"

So then my brother watched a documentary on tv about zebra's, and a male died. then the female zebra had a baby. so my bro linked the two things together.

later, he was talking to our aunt on the phone, telling her about the show he had watched. he said "the daddy zebra died, then jesus put a baby in the mommy zebra's belly!!"

needless to say, my aunt asked my mom about it later.

AUDREY

When I was about 8 I used to think that a man got a woman pregnant by weeing inside her. I knew that something came out of the penis, but wee was the only thing I could think of at that age.

Anon