When I was younger I thought that having a baby was easy. First you went to the cabbage patch to pick out a baby. Then you took the baby to the doctor and the doctor would put the baby in mommy's tummy. Then right after the doctor did that you go to another doctor who would remove the baby that same day.

Alicia

When I was about 7 Years old I was using a public restroom, the women watching me scolded me for not putting toilet paper on the seat first before using it. She said so you know what you can get from sitting on a public toilet seat? I replied yes, you can get pregnant. It was many years later I found out why she laughed os hard.

Rebekah

I thought that women got pregnant because their husbands chained them to the sink. I don't remember any time limit!

Joe K

I used to think that women got pregnant if she and a man sat beside each other close enough when I was about 4. This was soon discovered by my sister when I watched The Lion King movie, and when I saw Simba and Nala standing beside each other in one scene, I said, "They better be careful! They might accidentally have babies!" She then explained that that's not how women got pregnant. I was very confused for years after that.

SparkyTheOtherReindeer

I used to believe that if a girl didn't want to get pregnant that all she had to do was have sex with two different boys, one right after the other. The resulting sperms would fight and kill each other off before impregnation could occur. Such "birth control" ignorance of children/teens is utterly amazing and there should be sex ed, with a section on "false ideas about how to avoid pregnancy."

didn't try this, thank god

I used to believe that as well as having sex, you could also get pregnant just by chance, randomly, out of the blue, etc.

Clare

i used to think to make a man ejaculate the woman would have to squeeze his testicles. it never occured to me about unplanned pregnancies and that they just wouldnt do that part of it.

Anon

When I was younger, my mom gave me a book on "Your Body Changing". It wasn't the best written book, and I thought that you could only have a baby if a woman was starting her period. I thought that that was a logical explination for why some couple had trouble having a baby.

When I was really young I thought that you bought a baby kit from a department store like Penny's, because my mom told me that she had bought my baby stuff at Target.

Kelsey

My mom told me that when a man and a woman are in love they just "decide" to have a baby and poof, the woman is pregnant. (Nothing involving body parts.) I was amazed for a long time at the power of thought.

Finally Figured It Out

I used to believe that spermatozoa was like a tongue that came out of the urethra into the woman's vagina, aggressively knocking loose an egg which actively charged it into generating a fetus. I used to believe it would then retract back into the shaft of the penis, pulled by the winding of a spindle inside the body cavity. Something akin to an emergency fire hose.

Gedimin

i used to believe that the only way you could get pregnant was to shower with someone of the opposite sex.

stacy

I used to believe that once a girl "did it" just once, she would get pregnant more than once..as if that little sperm was embedded in her system for life.

Donna..Minnesota

I understood the whole concept of the birds and the bees, but I was under the impression that the couple had to go to the Doctor's office to make a baby on the examining table, since babies came from the hospital, it seemed to make sense that the doctor would oversee that aspect as well.

Not so clueless now

I used to think people got pregnant by just sleeping together. Literally just laying in bed next to eachother. If they slept too close they'd get pregnant. So I was scared to sleep with my sisters because we might sleep too close or something and I'd get pregnant.

Chelsea

when i was 7ish i used to think that you got a girl pregnant by peeing in them

nick

I used to believe that you could only get pregnant when you were married, and that when you did the baby grew from a seed that was in your stomach

~Hana~

I used to think that you got pregnant EVERY time you had sex. My parents taught me about sex very young, and while they told me that people had sex just to have fun, for at least a year, I thought, "But what do they do about all the babies they have?"

Kat

I used to believe that how a baby fed whilst in its mummies tummy was that s/he would feel the food crashing on his/her head when mummy was eating and so the baby would then lean its head backwards and open its mouth as wide as possible to try and catch whatever food passing that s/he could.
I can still picture it now!!!!!!!

annon

When i was little, i used to believe that babies came from a banana tree in the backgarden of the woman who was pregnant. I never really thoght of the fact that some people dont have backgardens or banana trees!!

anon

i used to believe that tiny babies lived in the place where your quadricep is, and when you got pregnant the tiny baby would move up your leg into yr stomach and grow bigger!

Anon