reproduction

I use to believe that storks brought babies;and wondered why they didn't have a section for stork parking at the hospitals in our city.

Charles E. Beavers

I used to beleive that parents go to a special market to purchase a baby for themselves becasue they are bored, so they want to enjoy with kids to have something new.

Syed Arbab Ahmed, khi., Pakistan

my 11 year old brother believes a vagina is called a "china" and when I said that I wanted to go to china one day he started freaking out and told my mom i liked girls. we still haven't corrected him because it's SO funny.

anon

i used to believe that a woman gave birth through her belly button. I used to check mine everyday to see if i had a baby to play with yet. duh!!!

lauren

As a kid, although I knew all about the sperm and egg thing, I was a bit muddled about intercourse. I didn't realize that it was a "deliberate" act. I thought it was just something that happened sometime during the night while you were sleeping. Therefore it made perfect sense to me that girls and boys who weren't married shouldn't "sleep together".

me

When I was a little girl, my mother told me that my cousin was an "accident." I couldn't figure out how a couple had sex accidentally, so I assumed that while the couple was sleeping, the man's penis could "sniff out" a woman's menstrual blood, and unbeknownst to either partner, engage in sexual intercourse. Thus, my cousin was an "accident."

Grace

I remember being a very sheltered and naieve 10 yr old, and finding out about the facts of life in a very clinical biology lesson at school. I was totally stunned, and so grossed out, that when the teacher asked if anyone had any questions, and all my classmates sensibly looked at the floor... I blurted out " But do they have to do that EVERY time they want a baby...surely once would be enough!"... LOL!

Andy - UK

Myself and my siblings and cousins all used to believe that if you had sex missionary style you had a boy, and if the woman was on top you would have a girl. And if you did it like the dogs down the street would, that you would have puppies like them. Boy we were strange! lol

Anon

I used to believe that one white parent and one black parent made an Asian baby.

Carolyn

Up until I was about 10, I used to believe babies were born with white sheets around them and in time, the sheet turned into skin.

iceboy

my mom told me that abaies come from rabbits, that rabbits would come into your house from chimneys and bring your baby to you!

Sally Hansen

When I was younger...I was smart enough to know that men couldnt get eachother pregnant. Because I knew only women could have babies. So I thought that two women could have a baby together.

The Big O

When I was about three or four, I used to think that babies came from "the baby store." Hey, groceries came from a grocery store, so why not?

I thought that babies would sleep on little cots that were lined up all around the 'store', and prospective parents would come in and choose a baby or two. I also remember believing ardently that, when I had been purchased from the baby store, I was wearing my pink "Martin Guitars" shirt, even though my dad had bought that for me when I was two.

I remember proudly telling my parents that I knew where babies came from, and they nervously asked me where I thought babies came from. When I told them the "baby store" they both burst out laughing.

Meg

when i was 10 years old i believed that women who had twin babies had slept with 2 men

Anon

In about third grade, my best friend "taught" me about the birds and the bees. I learned the typical procedure, up until the end when the man "pees" in the woman. Apparently, she knew something came out of his penis, just not what exactly. I thought this was true for the longest time until it finally dawned on me that pee is a waste product, and why would you purposely expel your waste into someone else?

M

I used to believe you could get a woman pregnant by kissing on the mouth. I watched loads and loads of movies growing up as a kid. Sex wasn't something I really knew about and I didn't see all that much of it in these movies. Well anyway, in a lot of the films, the couple would kiss and get all hot and heavy. Then they'd lay down on the bed, or the couch, or some other place, and then the screen would simply go black or cut foward to another scene and all of a sudden the couple is married (assumably) with children. So as a young brat, I came up with the conclusion that you can make kids by kissing. Of course I kept on believing this up until junior high. Now that I have no excuse for.

Marcus

When my mother was expecting for the second time, when I was 5 years old, she told me that I was going to have a little sister (which she couldn't have known). Because I didn't know how babies came into the world, I looked towards the door, expecting another little girl to walk in.

"velveire"

I used to believe that a baby's sex was determined by whether the sperm had a picture of a man or woman on it.

David E.

When I was little I thought that when you were born God put little seeds in your tummy and when he decided that you were old enough a baby would pop out of your belly button. I also though you could "order" what kind of kid you wanted. I decided I wanted 3 sets of twins. 1 set of identical girls 1 of boys and 1 set of a boy and a girl. Thank God that belief never came true. :)

childhoodeducator

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