reproduction

when i was 5 my cousin told me that u get babies when u eat one up. i thought that was just horrible.

when i was older my mom told me that God sends babies to her stomach. now i was really confused.

so at dinner, i used to put my hands over my mom's mouth when she started to say grace coz i just couldn't live with the fact that my mom really wanted to eat a baby that God had sent.

Latini

My three brothers and I were raised Catholic in the 1950s and 60s, so any discussion remotely connected with "where did we come from" was met by my mother with panic. My youngest brother, aged five, the favourite and therefore hated by the rest of us, persisted; and getting nowhere he came to me, as I was the oldest, or perhaps just the loudest. I told him that Gypsies had left him with us, and further, told us that if he ever lied, we were to take him down to the lake and tie him to the tree there, and they would come and take him back. He panicked even more than Mother did, and didn't lie for years afterward.

The Big Sister

When I was little, I thought babies were made when the mother and father kissed. They exchanged germs or "cooties", and the father's saliva helped create a baby inside the mother. I always expected babies when I saw people kissing.

Vaporshi

when i was little my mom always told me the old tale about babies coming from storks. she used to say that she was pregnant with me at my aunt's wedding so i always had this picture of my mom in a pretty dress, sitting in a pew and all of a sudden a stork dropped me into her stomach and she got fat. then i learned how it REALLY worked.

amber

i used to think people could go to winn dixie to pick up their baby....

crazy

i used to think that all girls and women were born with little fetus-like things growing inside them, and once you reached a certain age it would automatically start growing into a baby.

allison m

When I was in elementary school, an older student told me that if you had a pain in your right side, you were having a baby girl. A pain in your left side ment you were having a baby boy. I had to get my appendix out at the age of 17 - thankfully, I had learned where babies came from by then.

Barbara

I used to believe that when a man and woman kissed they were actually having sex. I thought a seed would pass up from the man's stomach, into his mouth & pass it to the woman to swallow!!! I was always terrified of kissing a boy...

Co-co

when i was little my mum shopped at Marks & Spencer a lot i used to see posters with babies faces on this made me think that when you went to marks and spencer u could pick a box with your favorite baby in a 'baby in a box' lol

blobbohead

When I was little, about 8 or 7 I used to beleive that when you were born, you had a baby inside you and as you grew so did the baby until you got old enough and then you had a baby. I believed thid until I was in Junior High and they showed us "rhe movie" that told us about our monthly cycles, but I still did'nt know how babies were concieved untill a few years later . I lived a very sheltered childhood!

niavegirl

I used to believe that babies were made by praying, I thought the parents would go upstairs or to their bedroom and pray for a baby and the baby would come. I remember watching a show where the parents decided they wanted to have another child so they ran up stairs, I asked my mom how babies were born and she said "um by praying"

wutever

I used to believe that the only way you could have a baby was if you got married and then prayed to God that you would be pregnant and He would put the baby in the mommy.

Anon

When I was way too young to learn about sex, I got it into my mind that there was a possibility that I might have a baby (even though I was a boy). After repeatedly questioning my mother if I would be able to keep my baby, she told my father to explain...

Being too young to understand, I went for the longest time thinking I had germs on the end of my "manhood".

Needless to say, I paid special attention at cleaning it whenever I could.

Kyle

When I was young I used to believe that you could buy a baby from a catalogue. They always showed the babies in the coaches you could buy but I wanted the BABIES. I used to beg my mom to buy one. Instead of telling me you couldn't buy babies she just said, "I have enough with you and your brother!"

Theresa

i used to believe girls laid eggs

Bill

When I was young I didn't know about amniotic sacs or mucus plugs or all that other fancy stuff that keeps the baby inside the womb. What I was told, was that you simply had to push the baby out. I used to think that if you touched a pregnant woman's stomach, it would be considered "pushing" her baby out, and it would come tumbling right out! I was always afraid to touch my mom when she was pregnant with my younger sister for fear of a miscarriage.

Jenny

Back when I was about 5 or 6, I had asked my Dad, of all people, the question: where do babies come from. He had gone quiet and because I couldn't take a hint at that age started to guess. My Dad stopped me when I asked if babies came out of the a mother's mouth or belly button.

Honor Student

when i was young i used to think your perents bought different parts of you from a shop. one day i said to my mum why didnt you buy buy me a better pair of legs, that was the point when i really found out where babies came from a bush!!!!
yes they did tell me the truth eventually

abigail

When I was little i asked my mom "where do babies come from?", they can come out, but how do they get in.. she said "well.. daddy and I hug a lot and then a baby will grow out of an egg" I started to think but i thought it was a bit weird to hug and then make an egg.. out of wood I imagined.. and then put it into her belly through the bellybutton.. I believed it for quite a while

Yvet

that when a woman wanted a baby she had to press her tummy button every day to make her tummy get bigger as the baby grew then when she thought the baby was ready she pushed her belly button really hard and the baby just appeared in her arms

theo