reproduction

I used to believe that couples could produce babies by literally sleeping with each other, thanks to TV and later on, a little knowledge of sperm + egg = baby. With my child mentality then, that translated to being amazed at the perserverance of sperms being able to err.. propel themselves across from dad to mom without physical contact. Or they could perhaps crawl over the bedsheet to the egg located somewhere on mom. *sheepish grin*

psyche

Upon the question of "where babies come from" my mom told me that a man had to put a seed inside the woman and it would grow into a baby, and I refused to believe her (imagining a sunflower seed being put into her stomach), so I tried to trick her by asking her things she wouldnt be able to answer. I asked where it came out of, on the man (being smart enough to disbelieve friends who said that people got ingredients for babies out of stores, because *how would babies me made in days of cavemen, then?*). My mom's blush and refusal to answer confirmed my theory that she was lying.

Strangely enough, I knew about sex, but thought it was just done for the heck of it, and it was only in 5th grade that i found out the two were interelated.

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When I was about 13, I just couldn't understand why one of my Mum's friends had a daughter, when she wasn't even married. I thought it must've been a virgin birth.

Victorian upbringing

When I was little, I used to belive that you didn't even have to have sex to have a baby, so when I saw a news article about a eight year old having a baby, I said to my Dad"Im going to have a baby when I'm ten years old.", But I was sad when My dad said I couldn't... now, a few years later, I realise why!

Kelsie

Up until 5th grade (when we watched the sex ed video), I thought that when girls reach the age for having children, they spontaneously develop an opening between their anus and their vagina where intercourse takes place. I also thought when a girl said she was having her "period" that was another term for saying she was having sex.

Anon

I used to believe that you got married and then the girls just had babies. But you could only have a baby if you were married. I'm 11 and recently found out it's more complicated.

Trey

i used to believe that you could determine the gender of you baby by the position your where in during sex.
example:
-women on top = a girl
-man on top = a boy

Silly me ;-)!!!!

Nana06

I'd once asked my dad what sperm was and he'd said 'It's the milk that men make'. So when my mom was breastfeeding my little sister, I asked her why she didn't use sperm instead. I said it was injust that women had to give their milk and men didn't.

Sperm Freak

When I was 14 my younger sister age 7 asked my Mom why she had a big belly. My Mom replied that she was pregnant. My little sister than ran up to my Dad, who is overweight, and asked "How many babies are you going to have?" Needless to say my Dad wasn't to thrilled with the question. I ran to my room and laughed my ass off.

Justin from Wisconsin

I thought that only the mother made the child, the father was an "extra" in this area

Lea Weiss

I used to think that babies came from the toilet. I thought that a guy and a girl pee in a toilet and then they flush it and then out pops a baby.

someone

When I was a kid, I thought that if people wanted babies, they'd have to get married, have no sex, and a baby would come on it's own. I figured out how it all worked when my family's donkeys had sex. Now, since I'm not a kid anymore, I know all about sex.

Anon

My neighbor girl told me that "crazy men can have babies"

Russ

I never had to ask where babies came from- I had it all figured out. Because they were different than fingers, it had something to do with your thumbs. Married people held hands- end of story. Then the mommy's tummy was like Jiffy Pop popcorn. Her belly button opened up and the baby came out. The baby was connected to the mommy by it's belly button. Then the mommy's belly button went back down. I was nine when I learned the truth and told my 11 year old friend she had been lied to.

Summer Field

I used to think a couple would pray to God for a baby and God would make the baby and put it in the woman's tummy until it was ready to come out.

Anon

when I was 3 my mom was pregnant with my little brother. I couldn't wait until he was born because I thought he would be so cute and little. Little enough to stand up in the palm of my hand and be two inches tall.
To my suprise my baby brother weighed 10 pounds when he was born! Much bigger than I thought he would be.

danielle

I believed that when you were married a baby would appear complete inside your tummy. A boy and then another time a girl. I was petrified that when this happened to me I would go to the loo and not know if it was a number two or a baby being born and they would get flushed down the toilet.

wolfie

for some reason, i used to get really really angry when my friend kept trying to convince me that babies gave from a child factory (told so by her mom). I didn't know how they were really made, but i was positive it was physical since animals and cave men and plants all reproduced, and they had only their bodies. I used to nearly cry in frustration trying to convince her that she was wrong and wondering how she could be so stupid.

Oh the Injustice of it All

When I was three or four my mother told me that babies born under cauliflowers and for this reason when I wished to have a sister I didn`t want to eat no more cauliflowers !!!!

Sheila

my mom used to tell me when i asked how a baby was born that when oyu wanted to get pregnant you would buy a baby catalouge and then order the baby that you thought was the cutest and they would send it to you.

Anon