i thought if men didn't get their hair cut the wife would become pregnant because when my baby brother was born i heard my dad say that he had come home late one night and the barbers was shut. i learned much later that in those days the barbers was where they bought their condoms

Jan

when I was about 4 and asked how babies were made my mum and dad told me that it was a special cuddle. I was scared of hugging anyone for ages.

Stephanie

Well this is quite embarrassing but right up to the age of 16 i thought twins were concieved by having sexual intercourse again when ur already pregnant

naive

when i was four, i went into my mum and dads rom early on a sunday morning, and theer were opening the mail in bed.
it was at this point mum decided to tell me she was expecting another baby ( now my lil bro)

from that point onwards i thought God decided when your became pregnant and sent you a letter down from Heaven.

no sex involved.

louise

I used to think that reproduction happened when grown ups were asleep in the same bed together and the penis would just crawl over to the woman and get her pregnant with out anyone waking up or doing anything.

Dove

When I first heard about the "Rhythm Method" I thought it meant that if you moved a certain way while having sex that you wouldn't get pregnant. Hey, I was only 11, what the hell did I know?

Duh!

When I got my period for the first time, I went to school,proud of becoming a woman, and told my best friend all about it. she simply said "you better be careful you can get pregnant now" I was so nieve... I was scared that I would just get pregnant at any moment. i believed that until i found out about sex.

parents never explain things to me

When I was about five my dad and I were on our way back from the lake. My mom was not around. I asked my dad out of nowhere where babies came from. He was really quiet, and then he asked me if I wanted to wait and talk to mommy about it. I told him no, we had a long car ride he could tell me, I didnt want to wait for mommy. He thought for a minute, and then told me that when a mommy and a daddy loved eachother they would hug and when thier bellies bounced together it made a baby.
For years I was terrified that if I hugged anyone of the opposite sex, I would get pregnant!
I only found out otherwise when I was on a playdate and my friend hugged her daddy. I screamed out, "Dont let your bellies touch, you will get pregnant!"

Thanks, Dad.... See why it is important to tell kids the truth?

Niky

I used to believe that when you were married to someone, it was required you have a baby. I also noticed that you wore a ring when you were married. So, being the bright child I was, I thought that inside the woman's wedding band was a small needle containing a special kind of chemical. This chemical made her have a baby. I thought that you had to get a new ring to have a new child. "Wow... Children really are expensive", I said after seeing a diamond ring commercial.

The Appraiser

When I was younger I thought that a man cut a womans belly open and planted a water melon seed, that would later become a baby. And that when the baby was born the belly would completly fall off and in it would be the baby and like an egg it would hatch. I was GREATLY dissapointed when my mom made me stay at grandmas for the hatching of my brother.

Hannah

When I was 5 years old, I really wanted a baby brother. My aunt told me that if my mom swallowed a pumpkin seed, she would have a girl. If she swallowed a watermelon seed, she would have a boy. So, I avoided eating both, and made my mom swallow a watermelon seed, which she "did". Nine months later, I had a baby brother. I really believed in it until we learned how it really happened.

Shipra G

As a child I believed that you got pregnant by sitting on the same toliet seat as a man did. That's why my sister and I could never go into our parent's bathroom. One time my mother let me and I was sure that I was pregnant the next day when I had a stomach ache.

Anon

for awhile (thanks to my dad) I believed that a girl got pregnant from touching a doorknob at the same time as a boy from opposite sides, when I started walking around trying to open doorknobs with my elbows, my mom noticed and asked me about it, when I said "I'm trying ot to get pregnant" - she went and found my dad and told him to "fix me". So he told me that you could get pregnant only if you drank from the same cup as a boy - I never even shared a cup with girls - just in case!

Sarah Jean

when i was little, i thought that there was a big factory filled with fish tanks full of babies and ladies would come in and say that they wanted babies, so a man would hook a vacuum up from the fish tank to the lady's belly button and it would suck the baby into her belly.

Dana Moskowitz

When I was a child, I was certain that to become pregnant a man and woman had to go to a hospital and be assisted by a doctor. I was fuzzy on what exactly the doctor did but I was sure one had to be involved. When I later found out that a man could get a woman pregnant anywhere they wanted, without medical supervision, I was pretty upset. It seemed way too unregulated. I'm okay with it now, though.

John

I used to think that the "testies" were little balls and he penis was a sack that held the balls. When two people wanted to have a kid, a man would get his sack (Which was in a drawer, hidden where no one could find it) (Yes, I looked for it) and give one ball to the woman. She would insert it into her ear (How did it fit?) and then, a year later, A BABY!!!!

Sadly Misinformed

i used to believe that the way u get pregnent is to eat twice or more than your usual eating portion. So i wanted a baby sister and would feed my mom more food each time she ate.

Anon

When i was young my dad covered my eyes when we passed a gaint billboard which was advertising something. It showed a man with his nose pressed in between a woman's brests. As a result for years afterwards I used to think this was the rude thing parents did in order to make babies!

Emily

I'm not sure why, but when I was little (around 5 or so), I thought a women became pregnant after eating too much cheese. I didn't eat more than one piece at a time until I learned the truth. Now, I can't get enough of it! :)

Shelby

After quizzing my mum about babies in tummies, I used to think that eggs and sperm got together in the toilet as that was the only place that mummy and daddy's 'bits' ever shared.

johnboy