reproduction

I used to think that when a girl was born, there was already a baby inside her. As she grew, so did the baby, and when she was ready (meaning married) it would be born.

Anon

For some reason when I was a very young child, I was under the impression that sperm were located in the feet.

I don't recall how I thought sex occurred at the time. Luckily.

Brodie

When I was born, I was the youngest of 3. I used to think where I came out last, there wasn't enough room left in Mum's tummy, and so believed I came out of my Dad's bottom. You wouldn't believe how many dinner-time conversations arose from this when I was 4. Tee hee.

Anna H

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

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 believe that babies came out people's butts, so one day I asked my mom "what happens if you poop when you're giving birth?"

Anon

I thought daddys made babies in a work shop... sort of like pinocio. and then angels came down and brought us to life... again like the story. It was cleared up for me one day when I asked my mom to have my father to go to his work shop and make me a new brother...

Anon

When I was about 8 and learned about the birdsand the bees,I assumed that the babies were born just a few weeks after sex. I also believed that the expectant mommy had to be careful to make sure, when she went to the bathroom, that she was just pooping, and wasn't giving birth. I also wondered how many babies had been flushed down the toilet by unobservant mothers.

TT

I used to think that, depending on which trimester, or which stage of pregnancy you gave birth in, you gave birth to animals, and that that's where animals came from. (It went mice, cats, dogs, humans. I had no idea about elephants and stuff like that.

Franklin

I understood how babies were made at an early age but was hazy on the details. I thought that the first time a woman had sex, the millions of sperm cells would fertilize every egg cell all at once. From then on, each month she would release a fertilized egg at ovulation and become pregnant unless she took birth control pills to prevent implantation. The first man she ever slept with would be the father of all her children. This explained why people made such a huge deal about waiting til marriage.

Kelly

I used to believe that "the pill" was something women took to get pregnant, not prevent it. I remember telling my babysitter that I never wanted to have a "pill" baby, that it wasn't natural! Silly child!

Brittany

This isn't actually my belief, it is (or was) the belief of a classmate of mine. She thought that babies were delivered by a stork. Sort of reasonable, right? Wrong. She wasn't 3 or 4. She was 15. And in Honors Biology.

TT

After having my sex talk at like age 8, I used to think that the penetration would occur and the two partners could just carry on with whatever they were doing while the penis was in the vagina... Like when people would slow dance in movies I would always wonder if they were secretly having sex...

Anon

When I was 3, my mom had my little brother. While we were at the hospital waiting for my brother to be born, my dad took me by the nursery to look at the babies. I pointed and said I wanted that one....I thought you got to pick the one wanted!

Brianna

When I was in 5th or 6th grade we had a sex education class. They showed us mostly animal sex and then just talked about human sex. So I believed that the male urinated inside the female to "fertilize the egg". Needless to say, if you had children, you were just kinda gross. But I understood how much people loved thier children and how they would do anything for them. But what I really did not understand is how people would get pregnant on "accident". How do you "accidently pee in someone"?

ignorance is bliss

I used to believe that women would become pregnant and have daughters, and men would become pregnant and have sons.

Anon

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

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

When I was very little, I was allergic to pollen, and since it coated our car every year, my mom explained what it was and how flowers grow. Not long after I learned about how flowers were made, I asked how babies were made, and she explained it in what she must have thought a quite understandable fashion, especially for a 4-year-old. Only problem was, I connected the two, and for years and years I had visions of sperm floating through the like pollen every time a man peed, randomly impregnating any woman that happened to be around.

Ailish

When I was in elementary school, and we were somewhat learning about sex, I became perplexed because I didn't know what would happen if a man peed while having sex. I asked all my friends and we came to the conclusion that a "pee baby" would be produced. Our drawings revealed that a pee baby resembled a normal baby, only made out of water balloons filled with pee.

Kaela