getting pregnant

I used to believe that when parents wanted to have a baby the dad would touch the mom's stomach and she would be pregnant.

Catie

When I was a child I used to believe that when women wanted to have kids they had to wish it very strongly so they could get pregnant, so I used to avoid thinking of that, because I was afraid I would end up pregnant too.

monmon

I thought when I was younger that you could get pregnant, especially as an unmarried teenager, if you did something "bad". The term "bad" meant not obeying your parents, or lying or anything. I was afraid of becoming a teenager. What if I slipped up one day, such as lying to my parents, the end result was me being punished by becoming pregnant?
When I figured out you actually had to physically do something to get pregnant, when I was about 12, I was so relieved!
I think this belief has lead to a deep fear of ever having kids.

Christina

I always knew that babies came from pregnant women, but whenever I asked my parents where they came from before that, they just told me "from heaven". So I tended to believe that once a woman reached a certain age, she just fell pregnant and it had nothing to do with men.

tb

I used to believe that a giant bird would deliver babies to the mother when she was said to have order one. I just could figure out why a woman's belly would get so big. I could never figure out the connection. I was 10 years old how embarrasing it is now.

Omar G.

when i was younger i didnt kno u needed a penis for reproduction so i never wanted to put my pillow inbetween my legs in fear that i would become pregnant !

ANONYMOUS !

When I was a little kid, I didn't believe in the stork. I believed that women became pregnant as a physiological reaction to being in mutual love. (Maybe that's how it SHOULD be.)

Reverend Flash

When I asked my mother how babies were made, she told me that the man plants a seed inside the woman, and a baby grows from there. Now, me being a farmer's son, had this weird image in my head of a tractor towing a planter, and trying to plant seeds inside women. A few years later I found out at school how the whole process actually worked!!

C2H

I used to believe if you had sex only once then you could have a baby any random time

lissa

Back in my days of innocence, I used to believe that a man had to pee inside a woman for her to get pregnant. 16 now and still think of that...good thing I never tried it on with anyone as a young age...could have been a bit of a messy job.

Mee

I used to believe that once you "did it" you could get pregnant for life at anytime...also if you washed a boys underpants with a girls, you could get pregnant.

DondiMay

When I was little my older sister told me that the only to have a baby was if the man peed in you mouth. I was so grossed out that I swore I would never have kids.

Heather

i was told by my cousin when i was 6 that to get pregnant a boy had to pee in my belly button. she told me that her doctor told her so i believed it for a while.

Anon

I used to believe that women could only have babies once they were married because there was some biological connection between wearing a wedding ring and being able to get pregnant. Obviously I'd never heard of unwed mothers at that tender age...

Pregnant and married

When I was younger I thought that if you wanted a baby you had to kiss and hug someone, then eat lots of chocolate to make you really fat, then all of a sudden you would have a baby, and that you could eat lots of chocolate on purpose tto have a baby or just be fat and accidentally have one.

A-Jay (UK)

when i was little i thought a man had a baby seed in his stomach and through sex the seed would jump through the mans belly button into the woman where it would grow

paul

I used to think once you got pregnant, you couldn't have sex at all during the 9 months.

Anon

Until I was about 9 or so, I thought that to get pregnant, a man and woman had to live in the same house and be married. To account for teenage pregnancy, I thought that sometimes there was a mistake in the "process" or whatever. I also decided that I was never going to have kids of my own, until sex became less of a big deal in like 5th or 6th grade.

Anonymous

When I was little I asked my Mom where babies came from and she told me that you went to Church and prayed for them. I pictured all these women kneeling in church pews, praying for babies, and walking out pregnant. I believed this for a long time, but finally found out the truth when I got married. (just kidding)

theresa

When I was little, I would sleep in the same bed as my mom (my dad worked nights Mon-Fri) because I was too afraid to sleep in my own room. When I was five I found out that my mother was pregnant with a little girl. My mother said it was my little sister. I was baffeled by something, I thought that since I slept in the same bed as my mother that the baby was my daughter (obviously I didn't know about sex at the time). About three years later I was amazed after I asked that famous question "Where do babys come from?"! Unfortunetly my parents told the truth!

Mike