reproduction

When I was little, I asked my Mom where I came from... she said that the gypsys left me on her doorstep. Then I asked about my sister and they said she was an alein they found in a dumpster...

M*u*e

I used to believe to have a baby you had to get married first.

Holly

My best friend in elementary school insisted that it was impossible to have a baby if one wasn't married. If someone had posession of a baby, it meant they stole it from the hospital.

Jen, MI, USA

i am from a very catholic family and thought that people only had babies when they were married. when i was about six my uncle got married in a church, at the end he and my aunt went into another room with the vicar (i now realise it was to sign the marriage license) and i thought that they were going in there to make a baby and the vicar had to be there to help them.

lucy

My sister told me that my parents had bought me out of the Sears flyer. I was only 5 and believed her since they had picutes of babies in the flyer and I hadn't realized yet that they were selling the baby clothes not the baby!!

Canuck

I believed that you would be pregnant for 18 months.

Anon

Not my moment, but a boy at my school. He joined us from another school, aged 16. He let slip to a group of us that women have babies by taking a "birth pill": take the pill, and a baby soon follows. Incredibly, to me, both his parents were family doctors.

I took him to one side when we were alone and told him the truth. He really didn't believe me. I hope he asked at home...

Brian

When I was a small child I used to believe that in order to make babies, the man had to pee inside the woman.

Chris

When I was a very small person, and I'd just got to grips with the fact that eye colour was inherited from your parents, I was convinced that it wasn't possible for two people to have children if they didn't have the same eye colour.

Squeaky

I used to believe that the neonate ward
in an hospital was a super-specialized
sort of store for babies . . . you went
to the hospital, the same way you went
to the butcher or bakery, and pointed
out the one you wanted; then, they sent
you home with your new kid. This belief
was reinforced by the fact that my mom
had a no-show pregnancy when I was 5.
We've got a picture of her at ~8 months,
in a bathin suit; and, all you'd say was
that she had a little beer belly.

Chris Owens

When I was little I used to believe that to have sex, the man would have to suck the womans boobs and that was it and would not believe anyone that tried to tell me different. Later on in sex ed when they explained the way everyone else had tried to explain to me I couldnt get over it.

Anon

i used to think you had to have sex for 12 hours
3rd grade

Anon

When I was little I used to think a girl got pregnant by kissing another man.

Anon

I used to think that when people were married for a while, a baby would just appear. I didn't really think about how it got there. I just assumed that you automatically got a baby if you were married.

Anon

when i was first introduced to asexual reproduction in grade school science class, i thought that it was possible for me to just become randomly pregnant. apparently my teacher didnt explain very well that it only occurs in simple plants and animals. i was terrified for weeks until i got the nerve to ask my mom about it!

lc

There was this woman in my church who told her granddaughter (I swear this true) that if she had sex she should jump up and down really hard. It would break the egg and she couldn't get pregnant.
Now here is another tidbit. The grandmother had 6 kids of her own. Guess that method didn't work too well!!!

Lori

when i was little i imagined a beach being inside a mommy's tummy for the baby. i used to think there was a beach, and the baby was a lot bigger than everyone else at the beach.

Anon

When I was 5 years old my sister had a baby and I had asked my parents where babies come from and my daddy told me that you found your baby on a fence post.

Kelly

when i was little i ask my mum if sperm was green coz i had been given a sex education class at school that day and it explained about the sperm meeting the egg but it didnt explain were sperm came from or i just wasnt listening so i interigated my mum when i got home about the colour of sperm and were it came from. well her answer was that it is coloured like spit that was all she told me and now i know the full works, fortently

joe