reproduction

I used to think that in order for women to breastfeed, they would have to go to the doctor who would poke a tiny hole in their nipples to let the milk come out... I was so stressed about having to go thru that when I got older!!!

A mom who knows better!

I used to think that to have a baby, men penetrated the woman's belly button. This was of course done by doing lining up perpendicular to the woman, and doing pushups into her belly button. I also figured that was why we did pushups in school. For training!

Keal

When my dad was little he asked my grandma how a baby was made. She got quite flustered and simply said "A seed is planted" for several years that if you wanted a baby you had to plant it in your garden

Anon

I used to belive that your parents went to heaven and told god what type of child you wanted. I'm ten and I know what really happens (shudder)

robert .j. coleman

When I was very little and first asked about babies, my mom just said "Mommies and Daddies do a special sort of hug, like a very tight hug."

The next morning they hugged in the kitchen and I smiled, thinking, "I hope it's a girl!"

Kelsey

i figured out most things about sex etc by the time i was 8. But i didn't understand the whole term "sleeping together" as meaning what it does. So, once, my friends and i, aged about 7 i suppose, were sitting around whispering- they didn't know much, probably less than me, and the conversation got to "sleeping together" where i announced that i had slept with a boy, and it was okay, and that we'd done that lots of times, and last time, it was in a tent! (a family friend!) Then when i was about 14, i remembered that conversation... ouch.

young one

When I asked my mom where babies came from (i was 3) she told me they came from flying storks. Then i asked my dad and he told me the real reason. I didnt know what to believe so i just decided mommy stuck her penis into storks.

Confused one

When i was younger I thought that to have a baby, a man & a woman would kiss and a seed (i imagined it like a watermelon seed) would travel from the man through his body and through his throat into the woman's mouth, and she would swallow it and it would grow into a baby!!!

megan

When I was about 10 or 11 I thought that if u rubbed ur belly-button 3 times and wished for a baby it would come out of the end of your finger. So I never EVER touched or talked about my belly button for a long time...that was..until i found out the truth. lol. I was a very weird child.

mindi*

When I was about 2 years old I woke up one morning in my parents bed and promptly showed my mother my penis then asked to see hers. Apparently I was quite surprised once I found out the truth.

For all I knew I was going to grow boobs someday.

Ryan Whitney

I used to believe that when a man touches a woman and when he sleeps with her she gots a baby. When I was about 7(before 4 years!) my uncle touched my hair and i started to cry and scream ˝you idiot im pregnant now and i did´nt wanted to have sex!˝ When I was 8 my mom bought me a book about puberty and then I realized.

I don´t want to get pregnant so don´t touch me!

Me and my brothers used to call sex 'urruh' because of the noise my mum and dad used to make.. we were fasinated on what was happening and why it looked so fun. I understood the part on how the baby was concieved but i used to think that the baby got out the mums body by the belly button/the doctor sliced the tummy open. Or something like that.

J

My Younger brother wanted to know where babies came from, so he asked my Mom...He was around 5 or 6 and Mom wasn't ready to explain this to him yet...SO, She told him that she bought him at K -Mart on "Blue Light Special"!
For years he really believed this, Especially since the other 3 of us would threaten to take him back for a refund because Mom kept his receipt, just incase she wasn't happy with her purchase!

(yea, I know we were pretty rotten)
Sorry "Pooh Bear"! Love ya kiddo!

Julie

I used to believe that your tummy button was the hole where you put a key to open the door to get the babies out.

Jenny D

At the age of three, I used to believe that doctors and nurses made babies in the hospital and that you could get a baby on a first come, first serve basis. Many were the times when my poor mother had to try and distract me as we played "tug of war," while walking past the local hospital while I begged my mum, "Let's go in and get a baby Mummy! Let's go in and get a baby NOW! I want one NOW" "Tomorrow," she'd always tell me, " Not now. Maybe tomorrow. We'll go tomorrow." Sadly for me, tomorrow never came and I remain ( thirty three years later) an only "child"! Oh well!

DZ

When I was young my uncle told my brother and myself that kids came from Sears and if we weren't good he'd return us.

not from sears

From a young age I had a book called "How Babies Are Made". Of course, I never bothered to read it. Thanks to one illustration, I spent a long time thinking that a women gets pregnant when she and a man lay in bed and face each other.

Anon

I used to believe that men had absolutely nothing to do with reproduction and that they were actually not needed at all. I thought they only got married and/or lived with women because they would get lonely otherwise and that some of them called themselves "the father" of the woman's children because they liked "pretending" that they helped create them and were as important as the woman.

Aly

When I was small we had encyclopedias for children called ChildCraft. In one of these books was a picture of an outline of a man and a woman with an arrow pointing between their middles. For several years I was convinced that if a married man and woman stood next to each other, some sort of substance would float through the air, making the woman pregnant. You had to be grown up and married for this to happen, which is why it was okay for me to stand next to boys.

Noelle

I used to believe that Men had boys and Women had girls. I didn,t know HOW exactly the boys were born, but I was sure all along how the girls were born.

Anon