As a kid, I use to believe that women went to the hospital to buy babies. Until a female relative got pregnant and I started to believe that women were asexual and got pregnant on their own (she was single).

Anon

When I was about 4 my mam told me that babies were made of 'eggs and sperm', so I thought if girls ate eggs they would get pregnant!

Anon

I thought that a woman got pregnant kind of like catching a cold, by being around her husband for a long time.

No Name

I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.

Laura

My mum had a friend who was brought up on a farm, ans she led quite a sheltered life.She believed that if you "courted" a boy for 9 months you would automatically become pregant. Subsequently she finished with all her boyfriends after 8 and a half months...she still single now at the age of 66!

TT

As a child I was told that if a girl wanted to get pregnant all she had to do was hold a boys hand! Thank god for sex ed, I never would hold a guys hand!!!

Amanda Mires

Until I was fourteen years old and in grade nine, I believed home pregnancy tests worked the same way as oral thermometers (you put it under your tongue and wait a few minutes, and then it tells you if you're pregnant or not). Imagine my shock when I was hanging out in the music room one day, and I found out the truth by overhearing some of my older friends talking about home pregnancy tests, lol.

Anon

Somehow I knew that in order to get pregnant something from the man had to get inside the woman - and I knew that they had to sleep in the same bed for it to happen.

So for the longest time I thought while the man and the woman were sleeping, whatever it was would crawl out of the man and walk across the sheets and into the woman and make her pregnant.

The thing I worried about was how did it know which way to go in the dark on the sheets and what if it crawled into the wrong person or simply got lost? Did it die? Did it hang around and wait for the next person to get in bed?

Deb

As a young child (about 4 or younger) I believed that women got pregnant from overeating. I knew that eating too much made you fat, and I knew that pregnant women were fat, and I assumed that one led to the other. Which was why women were always trying to watch their weight- they were trying to keep the baby away!

Anon

I was a very naive child. When I first discovered it was possible to have a baby without being married, I was puzzled. My mother explained it thusly: "Sometimes a boy and girl or man and woman get too close before they are married, and accidentally make a baby." I swear I was at least eleven before I stopped fearing that I could become pregnant if one of my male classmates rubbed up against me too closely, for example, sitting on the bleachers at a crowded ballgame. See why it's important to be honest when kids ask questions?

Kim

While I always knew that babies came from mothers' wombs, and that boys had penises and girls had vaginas, I did not always know about sexual intercourse. I thought that babies were formed inside mommies' wombs when the priest at the wedding chanted magic words. And that sometimes the magic would escape and hit random women and that's how single mothers happened. And that people could not control the spacing of the babies- they stayed frozen there indefinitely until God decided it was time for one to be born. And that penises were strictly to distinguish boys from girls when they were born. And later I thought that sex was something very clinical people did in the bathroom standing up strictly to make babies.

I know better now.

Scandia

I used to think that to get pregnant you rubbed your bums together. =|

Anon

when i was younger i asked my older sister where babies came from and she told me the man had to give the women a special seed. So i thought you could buy "baby seeds" (that the man would hand to the women and she would eat it) in a garden centre next to the plant seeds! Untill I was about 7 i always used to look for them when we went shopping!

Tianna-Faye

When I was little my friend and I were playing barbies and she had one of them have a baby, but she wasn't married. Since, being young I thought you HAD to be married to have a kid. I was confused and asked my mom if you had to and she said no. So i formed this strange belief that you can adopt a baby in your stomach.

Anon

My friends and I used to believe that a girl could get pregnant by hugging a boy while they were lying in bed...ha ha...I think this was because one of my older cousins told us that the song "2 Become 1" by the Spice Girls was a "baby making song"...and we didn't know that they were talking about sex in the song...we just thought that they were talking about when two people hug each other really tight or something b/c there's a lot of hugging in the music video...lol

Anon

When I was little, I used to think that when somebody is pregnant, the baby would grow up in the stomach and feed on whatever the mom ate, and that the baby's bellybutton was connected to the mother's windpipe!! I also remember feeling very grown-up when my junior friends asked me where the baby came out from and I told them "from the bellybutton"

Undigested Baby

Thanks to sex scenes in under 18 movies, I started believing that ladies get pregnant when they sleep with guy embracing her in his arms, and when their sweats mix together. This was because both are shown tired and sweating after sex. It didn't take me much time to device my own idea of switching the fans off for bearing a child. I literally used to avoid sleeping beside any girl fearing the results, if we touch with sweat on our hand, even if due to humid climate.

knowledge.. late better than never

When I was a child I believed women got pregnant merely by sleeping in the same bed as their husband ie "sleeping together". The sperm had to travel across the sheets on it's own. I knew about sperm and eggs but I'm guessing the elementary school sex ed had left out any explanation of how one got to the other.

Anon

When my cousin was really little up until she was about 13 believed that if a woman sat on a toilet seat, she would get pregnant. So she always used to squat when she'd pee, or so she said. lol

My father also used to tell us girls when we were little and in our teens, that if we slept with the curtains open and moonbeams shone on us while we were sleeping, that we would get pregant. Later I found out that he only told us that to prevent us from leaving the curtains open at night and catching a cold from a wayward draft. I still have trouble sleeping with the curtains open though! lol

Anon

My best friends mom thought that inorder to get pregnant, you had to married. She knew about sex and that's how babies were made, but she thought it didn't work until you were married. Imagine her surpise when she went to the dr and he told her she was pregnant. All she could say was "but, i'm not married"

susu