reproduction

When I was little my friend's father told me he was pregnant, and I believed him cause his stomach was so huge. I always used to ask him when he was going to have the baby, but he never did.

emmy

I used to believe that a man and a woman made a baby by pressing their stomachs together and hugging each other really tightly... and that baby 'ingredients' were pased from the father, through his belly button, into the mothers belly button and a baby was made. I also thought the baby came out of the belly button when it was born... and I couldnt figure out how it would ever fit!

Stephanie

when I was little I thought pregnant women were just carring a baby under their shirt (that's what made 'the bump') and that they could just take it in and out when they wanted.

gadgetgirl

I used to believe that when mom and dad would want a baby, he would go to the grocery store and get a sunflower seed. He would stick it in mom's belly button and in a couple of minutes... a baby would come out! Boy, was I wrong...

Smurfette

For the longest time, I had no idea how babies were made. I read about evolution in a magazine, and concluded that all the time, monkeys were evolving into people. I guess adult apes turned into babies then.

Pat

I thought that people have babies as soon as they kiss.

Lots of other kids told me this when I was about 8.

(you know how much kids fear sex)

guess

When I was first told about intercourse, I didn't believe it. How could peeing inside a girl make a baby?

Art

My parents told me that babies were made from dimonds under cabbage patches, that would grow into a baby.

Anon

My best friend in elementary school insisted that it was impossible to have a baby if one wasn't married. If someone had posession of a baby, it meant they stole it from the hospital.

Jen, MI, USA

I always wondered how it was decided if you would come out a boy or girl. When I was younger I believe that whichever parent wanted a kid more, than the baby would come out their sex. I'm a girl, so I obviously thought my mom wanted to have me more than my dad.

-e.corinna

i thought kids were born by planting a seed in a magical flawer and waiting for 10 mounths for it to grow. in the 10 mounths the mother will carry the flower where ever she goes until it's old enough to walk.

I'm a stupid kid

I used to believe you knew the sex of a baby (when born) by looking to see if they had hair or not. Girls if born with hair, boys if their born without hair.

Sandy

When I was in elementary school I still didn't know how do people reproduce - I knew nothing about getting pregnant and producing semen, all I knew was that baby is born in woman's stomach. So no wonder I thought that people had 'invented' sex because had discovered that males have penises and females have slits so as they were perverted they started playing inserting penis into that slit. How good I didn't tell somebody about my 'revelations'!

Was tut Jurek weh?

When I was little my mother told me that semen came out of mans penis and that's what you needed to get a baby inside a womans tummy. My mom was always really straightforward when talking about that but she always used the word "semen". Up until 13 or something like that I believed that because women are hurt when delivering a baby then a man is supposed to hurt when delivering the semen. Logic, right? That was because I always thought the semen were quite big and it would hurt for them to come out. Like a melon semen.

Mike

My mother was pregnant with my little sister when I was about 2. I asked my mother where babies came from and she tried to describe sperm and eggs to me. As she told me this I said "Like chicken eggs and tadpoles Mommy?" For many years, that's how I thought babies were made....chicken eggs and tadpoles

Melissa

When my little sister was about 4 years old, my mom was explaining pregnancy to her. My mom told her about the baby growing inside the mother, how it starts as an egg and grows into a person and then she mentioned that it grew in a sac filled with water. My little sister got a horrified look on her face and my mom, obviously worried, asked her "What's wrong?" and my sister said, "but aren't there sharks and fishes in there?"

Anon

At first,I used to think that parents go to hostpital and bye babies at 100 busks.

When, I grew older and learn that babies are born from mother's belly, I was surprised about some babies who have more than one mother. I thought that such babies are borne in parts from each of his mothers.

Mahboob

When my brother and I were little, we used to believe that when ur mum eats a lot...she becomes too fat. And all the bananas she ate became legs, the pumpkins made head and all these other foods made body parts. Then mum would vomit all the junk she didn't need and she would everyday. Then the doctor had to take the baby out by opening the tummy and then peeling off the skin of all the vegetables anf fruits...bizarrae...i know

Anon

i remember when i was younger (it was the time were peer pressure was high on having a boyfriend- and i did not have one) there was a month when i didn't have my periods n i was panicing because i couldn't understand why. So i made a conclusion that made sence to me that because i didn't have a boyfrind my body seced it a stated producing sperms that got me pregnant as a punishment to not having a boyfrind.

Karabo Phello

Up until I was about eight, I thought sex was only done to make babies; I had no idea that it was pleasurable or that people did it for fun. I knew all about how the actual act of reproduction worked (with the exception of penises having to become erect first), but not why people would do it except perhaps out of boredom or a sense of duty.

Anon