reproduction

I was travelling on the school bus with my friend when we were 10 or 11 - he was going crazy because I have 4 brothers and sisters, that means my parents have had sex FIVE times. He was even more freaked when I reminded him that he has 5 brothers and sisters himself. Go figure...

Doz

My mum gave birth to my brother when I was four - I remember visiting her in the hospital with my aunt and trying to locate my little baby brother underneath her top because I was convinced that he was still trying to hide behind my mother's tummy!

Mandy

When I was around 8 years old I didn't understand how babies were born, however I did know that you had to be an adult to have one. I have a sister that was 13 at the time (grown up compared to an 8 year old), and while watching TV with my family a pregnancy test advertisment came on, and I proclaimed "T. needs one of those." My mother just said "I hope not," and no one ever mentioned it again. I hope I didn't cause any trouble.

Anon

When my wife was pregnant, my little niece told her to eat plenty of sugar and candy. When she asked her "why?", my niece said that she wanted us to have a girl because girls are made of sweets.

James

When l was a child, l asked my father how did l born and he answered me that he always loves my mother but one night he loved her too much and I borned.

dido

I used to think that if you had a baby and wanted it to be the opposite sex -- e.g., if you gave birth to a boy and had wanted a girl -- you could just have a sex change operation performed on it and, voila! It's a girl!

Melissa

I believed that when you were married a baby would appear complete inside your tummy. A boy and then another time a girl. I was petrified that when this happened to me I would go to the loo and not know if it was a number two or a baby being born and they would get flushed down the toilet.

wolfie

When I was in the third grade, my best friend told me 'where babies come from'...Don't ask me why my best friend got around to telling me sooner than my parents, but all the same...I denied that MY parents did that, and said that MY parents would never do such a thing! After a lengthy debate I returned home only to find out how wrong I was. I'll never forget that...

Reb

I used to believe that you swallowed a pink pill if you wanted a little baby girl and a blue one if you wanted a baby boy!

bubbles

I used to think taht babies just *appeared* inside you, whether you wanted them or not and you couldn't choose when you had one. I also thought they came out of the belly button when they were born- after all, what else does it do?

rachel x

My mum was very prudish and so I was told that babies came from under gooseberry bushes. Then I watched a graphical nature programme in the early sixties while she was out. There was an african woman giving birth in a mud hut, and you could see the head emerging. Beleiveing that babies came from gooseberry bushes I could not understand why or how someone had put a baby up inside a woman. It looked so awful I was traumatised for ages until the truth dawned on me.

Janice Davis

Well believe this or not and it is so stupid but i used to believe you got babies out of catalogues!!!!!

Anon

I thought babies were one year old when they were born. I corrected my neighbor when she told me her baby was 2 weeks old. She said, "well, they have to be something before they're one, don't they?"

Kristen