reproduction

I used to believe that babies were attached to the umbilicle cord and then stuffed down the throat grow.

anonomous

from about age 3 to about 8 I thought that Mom's had to eat clothing so there babies wouldnt be born naked.

Whitney

I u stuck something up ur vagina, u would have baby shaped like that thing. For ex: bead= bead shaped baby

Anon

When I was a kid, fresh bread and milk were delivered (separately) to houses during the night i.e. you woke up in the morning and there they were on the doorstep.

Living in a new suburb which was full of young parents (like mine at the time), when I was in bed, I would often hear babies crying at night.

I used to believe the baker delivered boy babies and the milk-man delivered girl babies.

The Sandman

i thought that when people had sex, if the sperm went up one fallopian tube it would be a male, and if it went up the other it would be a female

Shorty

I thought babies came from kissing (because that is what happens on The Sims). So whe I saw my best friend kiss a boy on the lips (This was a dare, mind you). I screamed, quite loudly, "OH MY GOSH ELLIOT! YOURE GONNA HAVE A BABY!!!"

Then I had a little talk with the principal about where babies really came from.
I was scarred for life (What do you expect? I was only in first grade!)

This resulted in an angry mother at both me and the principal. No Sims time for a week. Aww, man!

redruM talks about babies

my boyfriend was told by his parents that they won him at an auction. and yes, he still hasn't forgiven them for it.

SOLD, for five quid

i use to think that you got pregnant just by touching and that babies came out of your belly button.

amanda

when i was 3, i heard that children are like whoever gave birth to them (genes) and so i thought that girls gave birth to girls and boys gave birth to boys...

Anon

I knew about the whole sperm]egg/penis]vagina thing when I was 5. My dad explained it pretty well, but one thing I didn't understand was how the sperm came out. I thought testicles were sperm, and every man had only 2 of them, so they could only have 2 kids. (I didn't know anyone with 3 kids) I thought that grown men's testicles were on the end of their penis instead of at the bottom and when they had sex one fell off inside the woman. Thank god It isn't like that...

Kelly

When I was about 9, I saw the multiracial "Cinderella" movie on TV (the one with Brandy and Whitney Houston). For about the next year or so, I believed that if a black woman and a white man had a baby, the baby would be Asian.

Justin

I used to believe that when I was in my mom's stomic, there was a flashlight, picture of my mom, and a blanket already in there.

Anon

Babies came from pills. My mom told me that when a woman wanted to have a baby, she went to see her doctor and he gave her a pill to swallow. Inside her stomach, the pill would grow into a baby!

Debbie J

This is from when I was 5. I somehow understood that a brief time each month was tied to reproduction. I had read about sperm cells and egg cells, and I knew that babies came from the union of them. However, I figured that the sperm cell and egg cell met through oral contact--kissing. Kissing during a certain time of month produced babies. Also, I figured that the baby, who had been in the *stomach*, where it could get food from the mother, had to come out the same way it went in. So I basically believed that babies were vomited out. It's funny how almost-right can be so very off.

Clint

When I was 3 I popped the big question to my dad: "Where do babies come from?". My dad, being a somewhat embarrassed scientist, and not feeling quite up to explaining sex to me, instead decided to give me a very detailed and quite accurate description of artificial insemination, starting with the man "peeing" in a petri dish, and all the way to implantation of the embryo.

I thought this was rather involved, but believed it for years.

Scientist

when i was younger i thought that babies could see out of the mummies belly button

strawberry

When I was little, whenever I asked my parents where babies came from (I must not have believed them or forgot because I asked more than once), they would always say they had found me underneath a leaf. I believed them up untill I asked my brother, who said I was adopted which was also a lie. The whole thing ended around the point where I thought babies came from adoption centers which were underneath a leaf. Untill my parents bought me a book of Human Anatomy, thats what I believed till around 5th grade.

Aii

My neighbor girl told me that "crazy men can have babies"

Russ

Well Whan i was a kid I always thougt that a mummy and daddy would sleep next to each other, kiss, and then the tiny baby would crawl from the dads belly button into the mums and grow there...and when it was time she would...barff up the baby. I thought this because my parents talked about cleaning the baby after it comes out...i thought BARFF!!!

Jen