reproduction

i used to believe that if u farted then a baby would come out, i tried to hold it in for ages......

anonymous

My mom told me that kids appear after long time relationship, they are just born when people love each other for significant period of time, suprisingly this belief last till I was about 12!

Anyah

When i first got 'taught' about sex, it was by a very stupid man and an equally stupid book as his aid. The book was about the human body, and was designed for children, and in the part about reproduction, it had a picture of a metal box with a spring coming out of it(which was suppossed to represent the male reproductive parts) and another metal box with no spring (the womans parts) and arrows showing that the springy thing went into the other metal box or something. It was really dumb and thanks also to the person 'explaining' it to me, i was left thinking that sex was something these weird robots did for us, so we could have babies, but I had no idea how them having sex made us have kids.

Anon

I used to think birth control was where you could choose the sex of your child.

Anon

Once I saw on TV a premature baby all hooked up on tubes. This led me to believe that babies were manufactured in hospitals and to get one you simple had to place an order.

Anon

I used to believe children were randomly born in different ways.I thought I grew out of the ground like a plant.My big brother told me babies weren't born with clothes on and I thought that he was born without clothes on and I was born with clothes on so he was just jealous

silly girl

When my mother was pregnant with me, she worked in a day care. One of the little boys came up to her with a baseball and asked her why her tummy was so big. She told him that she had a baby inside her. The boy looked up at her and asked "Well, can you let him out to play?"

Rew

I used to think that if you look into a pregnent womens belly button you would be able to see the baby inside her tummy.

Adam

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

I used to believe that if a pregnant woman had a bump out the front she would have only one child. Twins meant bumps out both sides. Side bumps and a front bump was going to be triplets. Quads would have been very uncomfortable with bumps in four directions. More than 4 bumps (babies) I couldn't even begin to think about.

Heather

i used to believe that sex was how you make babies. but the weird thing is i thought you had to roll around in a field naked with another person and your bodies would morph into a small baby, which would be named by mixing the two people snames together, and that your parents were just virgins who were taking care of you until they had sex. and when people died it was just that they had sex and turned into a baby.

Anon

I used to believe that my mother found me in my grandfather's garden and the funny thing is she didn't tell me otherwise until I was about 8 years old.

baldy1881

When i was a child i was told and truely believed, that i wasnt born, but chosen and bought from the local Co-Op supermarket. My parents even told me they paid for me with Co-Op stamps !!

Ian London

my dad told me once that pregnant women were ladies who had swallowed watermelon seeds and had the giant fruit growing in their tummies. to this day, when i accidentally swallow a seed, i think back....and hope that this one doesn't get fertilized!!!

stephanie, nashville

A lady friend reported that as a child when she was sent to the bakery to get a seeded rye on the way home she would eat all the seeds off the top believing that was how she would get a baby (which she wanted thinking it as more of a doll than a baby).

Anon

Bashful Southern Baptists, my parents never gave me 'The Talk.' All they ever taught me about sex was that it was something naughty to feature or to watch on TV and that no one ought to do it (whatever frightful and secret thing "it" was) until after marriage. Until I was enlightened by the Texas public school system, I thought that sex was merely rolling around on the floor, fully clothed, with a member of the opposite sex--and of course, I had no idea how babies figured into it.

s.smith

I was absolutely convinced that babies were actually in the stomach and the woman was pregnant as a result of something she ate. How did the baby come out? That was obious, it comes out the same way food comes out. I mean from watching all those scenes on tv where a woman was having a child it looked like she was taking a very large and painful dump.

Margie

i used to think that if a girl and a boy peed in the same toilet a baby would grow in it.

hip hip

I had believed that both men and women could get pregnant. At the time I knew nothing about sex. I imagined fathers walking around with huge stomachs because they were pregnant. It was quite a shocker when my mom told me the truth.

Sarah

when i was about 11, on a visit to the toilet i found a pea bug in my knickers (i had been sitting in a field). I was horrified and terrified for the next few months as i thought i was going to give birth to a peabuggy person !!!! wow what an imagination!!

tc