I thought that when you got pregnant, that meant that you couldn't marry anyone else then the person you were having the child with....boy was I wrong!

Lil Nicster

When I was six I checked a book about the human body out from the library. The last chapter was on reproduction. It explained the process, but left out any concept of volition. I spent some time believing that procreation happened whenever a penis neared a vagina. I was particularly worried that it happened at night, unbeknownst to my sleeping parents, while they were lying in bed next to each other.

Ruth

I used to believe that if you wanted to have a baby, you would go to a doctor, tell him whether or not you wanted a baby and if you wanted it to be a boy or girl, and Voila, your pregnant.

LarLar

I used to think that if you wanted a baby, all you had to do was go to the hospital and buy one. I figured out the truth when I was 5 and my Aunt got pregnant.

Amit

when i was little, i thought that the sperm got to the egg through the motther's mouth since it was the only opening,so the mom had to eat a guy's sperm!

Anon

This is more like< "SHE used to belive." I used to babysit this little girl and one day she asked me, "where do babies come from?' and I tried to explain by saying, " Well, when a mommy and a daddy get married..." Then she says, " THEY GO TO THE MALL AND CHOOSE OUT WHICH BABY THEY WANT FROM THE BABY STORE!!!!"

Anon

I remember asking my mom if a woman was pregnant, could she get pregnant with another child so they would be 4 months apart or something. She said it was a good question and to ask our family friend who was a doctor.

Anon

For years I thought you could only get pregnant if you had sex when you have your period, any other time was safe the reason being when younger we had a female dog which mom said had to be kept in when she was in season. She got out one time and the dog up the road mounted her and this resulted in a litter of puppies.

embee

MY MOTHER TOLD ME THAT EATING WATERMELON SEED WAS WHAT MAKES YOU PREGNANT, IF YOU EAT A WHITE SEED YOU WILL HAVE A WHITE BABY AND IF YOU EAT A BLACK SEED YOU WILL HAVE A BLACK BABY.

dEREK

My sexual education had a few details missing - when my parents gave me the "birds and the bees" talk, they completely left out the part about sexual intercourse. Therefore, I believed, until I was almost 16, that you could get a woman pregnant simply by sharing a bed with her. I subsequently deduced that the reason silk sheets were considered sexy, was because the sperm could travel on the slippery surface far easier.

Zilla

My one friend used to think that people only had sex when they wanted to have babies. She was like "haha, your parents did it twice!" because I have a brother. Oi, if only.

Anon

When I was six or seven I used to think that babies came from two people exchanging saliva. The more saliva you exchanged with someone the more chances of you having their child, if you were a woman that is.

Anon

I thought getting pregnant was completely random, and that the couple had no control in it whatsoever. So whenever I'd hear something about a couple trying to get pregnant, I'd think that they were stupid because it couldn't be done, and that I was a lot smarter than they were for realizing it.

Addie

When I was in elementary school, I heard my mom comment on some very skinny aerobics instructor on TV, "I bet she's never had kids." I was baffled because it had never occured to me that you could NOT have kids! I believed that pregnancy was automatic, so that when a woman reached a sufficient age, a baby just started growing inside her all by itself. Then she'd have to find someone who would agree to be the baby's father and help her take care of it, if she didn't already have a husband or boyfriend handy. Yeah, I was a pretty mixed up kid, but it made perfect sense to me!

Anon

My grandmother told me that when she was younger she used to believe that if someone touched her boob she would get pregnant.

Kaitlin

I used to think I was pregnant because I was quite chubby as a child, and I vaguely remember telling my mum I was pregnant and her laughing a lot... xP I was about six.

Not pregnant yet!

I used to believe that women could get pregnant just by being in the vicinity of men a lot (this was why women got pregnant after marriage). This belief stemmed from overhearing my mother and her friend discussing the neighbor girl: 'If that Darlene doesn't stop hanging around boys, she's going to end up pregnant.' I had a brief period worrying about whether I should be in my father's company, but reasoned that perhaps you had to be a similar age to the man/boy in question. Luckily, I had no brothers.

erika

I thought that women would sometimes get pregnant spontaneously. This was because our babysitter was a single mother, and I couldn't quite work out how she had a baby if there wasn't a husband living in the house at all times. So I figured that once in awhile, though not often, women reproduced by themselves.

Henry Minsky

I thought that if a boy bumped into a girl from behind she would become pregnant. This fear stems from a time when i was wrestling with one of my brothers friends over a yard stick and he goes, careful you might make her pregnant. I was terrified for nine months. plus every time someone bumped into my behind on accident i thought i was pregnant. I thought i was pregnant like 4 times.

Kristin

When I was about 5 I told my mother I knew how babies were made. Curious of what I had to say she asked me how. I told her that a man and woman take off their clothes and kiss each others "privates" Needless to say we had the sex talk. Where in the world did I get that from???

Anon