Up until the age of about 10, me and my best friend thought that people had sex for fifteen minutes...and that would mean one baby was made. This rule applied to twins (thirty minutes) and when we heard our friends mum had given birth to quads we nearly fainted, thinking about the fact she'd 'done it' for sixty minutes!!!!

Millie

my 3 year old step son just recently met his first pregnant lady, My aunt, well he asked her if she had a boo boo well she tells him there;s a baby in there. He looks her dead in the eye and asks Did you eat it? no this boy believes that to get a baby in your belly you have to eat it

Hillary

I used to think that women just got pregnant at a certain age... you were supposed to hurry and get married so that you would have your first baby after you were married! ... Cause it was better that way :P And then the babies just keep comin' whenever they feel like it...

Leezr

When I was little, I stayed at my grandparent's house for the weekend. In the morning, I saw my grandma was taking pills. When I got home that afternoon, I asked my mom what her pills were for. She said "It's because Grandma doesn't want to have any more babies". I was terrified because I thought babies popped out a couple of times each year randomly, and you could only stop having babies with pills. I hated pills at the time, so I never wanted to get my period!!!!

Demi

I used to believe that a woman could only get pregnant after she was married..that God decided to just send the couple a baby, I used to pray that when I got married, God would spare me for a few years. When I realized you could control it, I was like, WOW.

Beth R.

I used to think that you have babies by holding hands. I actually felt my belly growing because i held someone's hand but to my relief i was just growing fat.

natasha

When I was little (maybe 9) I heard to have a baby you had to "sleep together". Well, when I slept over at my friends house we fell asleep on the couch but so did her brother. I got really worried and I thought I was going to have a baby!

Anon

When I was very young I firmly believed that girls got pregnant because they wanted to...in other words if they said they wanted it, it would happen instantaneously. So I spent the better part of every day saying out loud, "I don't want to be pregnant...I don't want to be pregnant..." What a goofball.

Tonya

My mom told me that when a man and a woman "get real close", they could have babies. For a couple weeks I was terrified to stand next to any boys.

Laura

my husband up untill the age of forty belived the only way a woman could get pregnant was is she had an orgasm duing the sex. i set him straight quickly by telling him "dear, if that was the only way. we would never have children"

waya "mother of 8"

If u were pregnant with twins that means u had sex for a longer time then people that only got pregnant with 1 baby

Anon

One time I asked my mom how she got pregnant with me (I was 4 or 5) She said that Daddy gave her an egg. So for the longest time I thought to get a baby the husband takes the wife to a grocery store, they go to an egg display and they pick which egg they want. Wow. LOL.

Eggtastic

When I first learned about sperm being single cells I still did not understand what sex was, I suppose I wasn't paying attention in class. At any rate I understood that getting pregnant had to do with sperm getting to the egg. I thought sex was just a man and woman being in bed naked together but I thought that would be so embarrassing so I tried to come up with ways to circumvent the embarrassment. I decided a man could take a bath or shower and then the woman would come and use the bath/shower immediately afterwards if they wanted to have a baby.

Wesley

When I was younger, I used to think that women and men had to have sex every night for the 9 months that a woman was carrying a baby. I thought this was the only way to stay pregnant.

J.J.

Before my mom gave me "the talk", she assessed my knowledge of sex. She asked, "So how do you think babies are made?" I responded, "By kissing". She said, "So daddy could get you pregnant by kissing you goodnight?" I replied rolling my eyes, "No! Kissing with the tongue!"

Anon

As a little girl (6 years old), I read that the was a 10 year old who became a mother. I wondered if I asked God very nicely if He would give me a baby -- even while I was still a little girl -- just He did for the Virgin Mary. I thought God would make the immaculate conception for anybody.

Linda from Southern California

When I was about five or six -- old enough to realize that pregnancy and genitals were somehow connected, but too young to have acquired any solid knowledge of the specifics -- I "figured out" that women became pregnant when a man and a woman peed in the same toilet without flushing in between. That's why public bathrooms are "men only" and "women only", but homes with one potty are where mommies and daddies live.

Meowpossum

When I was 9, I used to believe that one day a girl just "became" pregnant, the way that a girl one day gets her period. I knew this usually happened when a girl was older, but I would often overhear my mom gossiping to her friends about some young teenager who "got" pregnant, and what a shame and a tragedy it was, and how the girl's life was ruined. I was so terrified that I would be one of those girls that got pregnant early, the next time I went to the doctor's to get a check up, I asked the receptionist (loudly) if they can tell if I was pregnant from the check-up. Well, the stares that followed made my mom promptly bring me aside and tell me the truth!

PB

When I was little I used to think that a man and woman would get undressed, she would lay down on the back on a bed and he would get on top of her, but I knew nothing about him having to "enter" her. So I thought once he was on top of her they would hold on to eachother and roll around the bed. When he ejaculated I thought they sperm were like the size of a quarter and about 20 or so would be racing around the bed trying to beat eachother to her vagina as the couple continued to roll around and the ones that didn't make it would swim back inside of the man and then the sex was over. That is why I thought sex was fun because they got to roll around and as the sperm were racing eachother. I thought it was like a game.

Miss Vixen

I thought you had to be married in order to get pregnant. So, when one of my cousins got pregnant and she wasnt marriage. I was very confused as to how it had happened, I remember being about 11 and lying awake at night wondering how this could be possible!!!

Anon