When I first asked about the Facts of Life, my mother told me something evasive about how they had really wanted a baby and so they got one. So for a while I thought that you could only have a baby if you were married, and that what you had to do was pray a lot and if you wanted one enough God would make you pregnant. Ah, the idealism of youth.

Dahne

I used to believe that god would at some point make you pregnant, but he would tell you to get married first, and if you didn't get married when he told you to he would make you pregnant to let everyone know you didn't listen and that's why it was bad to be pregnant if you weren't married. Also that you could hold off being pregnant by praying a lot and being really holy, which is why grandmothers and nuns didn't get pregnant. Grandmothers were sort of pickled in holiness, so they never got pregnant, but sometimes nuns would pretend to be praying and they'd really be thinking about television, so after a few warnings god would make them pregnant to let everyone know they were slacking off on the praying which is why it was a huge bad thing if a nun got pregnant.

Julia

When I was little, I used to think that a man impregnated the woman by sticking his penis into her vagina and then peeing into her.

Anon

When was younger, i belived that getting pregnant was not a choice, that one day you just woke up in the middle of the night with a big belly and yelled,"Oh no, my water broke!" and then your husband would rush you to the hospital. And if you were lucky enough to know you were pregnant in advance you could take a girl pill or a boy pill to determine the gender. And when I was very very young and had jsut found out about babies, my mom had told me that they came oput of your tummy.I remeber having this vision of someones big belly hatching open like a chicken egg and a feathery baby climbling out...i was a weird one.

steph

I used to think that in order to have a baby two people needed to kiss for 15 minutes with taking a breath.

Anon

I asked my step sister one day what would happen if you ate a watermelon seed. She told me I'd get pregnant and a baby would grow inside me. When I didn't believe her, she said, "how do you think I got my kids?" I was too young to understand what sex was. I believed her till I ate one to see if it was true, because I wanted a baby of my own.

Nicci

I used to think that babies were made by the boy laying on top of the girl, he would then put his "pee pee maker" in the girls belly button and urinate. I had most of the mechanics worked out, and just filled it in with what seemed reasonable

Geister

When I was a kid I always used to check my underwear for spiders because I thought if a spider went into my panties and up my vagina I would get pregnant and give birth to a giant spider!

Vicky

My son believed for the longest time that the doctor put my daughter in my tummy when I was pregnant. He went around telling everyone that her dad was the doctor, not my husband

Anon

When i was little i used to think that u got pregnant from period pads. So if my mom ever needed me to grab one for her i would pick it up with the tip of fingers run to her as fast as i could and then throw it really fast.

Anon

Up until I was about fourteen (my parents were crazy, strict, Baptists, so they didn't tell me anything about sex; I found out from my older sis), I thought sex was two people either a: sleeping in a bed together (naked?) or b: two people kissing in a bed together (naked?), and then falling asleep afterwards.
I thought this would make a baby, so as a child, when I'd hear couples in church talking about "trying to have a baby" I didn't understand what they were doing to try to make this happen. I asked Mom once: "What do they mean they're trying? Doesn't it just happen (while they're asleep)?" I was very confused about it all, and Mom refused to give me a straight answer on it. Thankfully, my sister straightened me out when I was 14.

Maria

When my family went to Queensland for a holiday, we went into this museum and there were these wierd statues there. I think I touched one of them.
We went into another room, and there was a big screen playing movies about various things in the museum. It mentioned something about those statues I'd seen, and it was showing how all these people who touched the statues got pregnant afterwards.
I then became worried that I'd get pregnant.
I was 11 years old at the time.

Sarah

I always understood the whole "sex makes you pregnant" part, but i never got how the baby came out.... so i immeditaly thought it came out of your bellybutton. Well, i never knew what belly buttons were for!

Mo

I used to think it took three days to get a baby. My mom told me one day that she was pregnant, I figured the next day she would be "fat" with the baby and the day after that the baby would arrive! lol I had no clue it takes nine months!

Ivana

I used to think that you got babies when a man licked a woman's privates. So When a few boys in my class (In fifth grade) Were making fun of how women had to deal with the pain of giving birth and having periods and such, I told them that they's have to do something EVEN WORSE. I figured it out that summer XD

Venti V.

Once while hiking with my dad, I had to go to the bathroom, and he told me to go behind a tree. I asked if it would hurt the tree and he said no, it's actually good for the tree and will fertilize it to help it grow. Later I learned that woman became pregnant when the father fertilizes her, and assumed that he did this by urinating inside her.

Mike

I used to think that if you slept in the same bed as a memeber of the oppisite sex, you'd get pregnant

Samluver

When my mum got pregnant with my lil sister, I used think that she had this realllyyyyy huge duck-egg in her tummy...till my sis's bday....he he he:)

Anahita

I used to believe that in order to get pregnant you had to eat a lot of food, get really fat, and then...out pops a baby!

Ali H.

I remember when i was little...when those commercials would come on for like headache medicine and stuff...when it says "do not use if you are or may become pregnant" and i used to tell my parents that they were being stupid for saying that becuase anyone could become pregnant so no one would want to take the medicine...i used to beleive that anyone (even guys) could just get pregant out of no where

Lauren