I told my son that he used to be in my tummy when he was 4. So he asked me," Mommy why did you swollow me?"

Christopher's mom

When my sister was little she thought that when girls were born, they were born with a tiny, tiny baby all ready inside their stomachs ands as you grow, the baby grows until one day it ets to big to stay inside.

Imagine my mothers suprise when my 4 year-old sister told her she had a " tiny person growing in her tummy".

Rae

My mother is a baby boomer and when she was young, parents were very secretive and unapproachable when it came to discussions of puberty and sex. Naturally, it was fairly difficult to get accurate information about anything. When my mom was little and first heard that people had to have sex to have a baby, she was disgusted and confided this to her friend. The friend reassured her by saying, "That can't be true. My mother is having a baby, and Daddy is away."

knowledge is power

One day I asked my auntie "how do women get pregnant?" then she told me "Your daddy gave your mummy a seed". Afterwards our teacher in science gave us each a seed to plant as our project. I was so worried as hell 'cause I thought that the teacher had lots of seeds in her, so I thought that daddy got the seed from teachers and plant it into mummy's butt. I believed in this for 2-4 years, util my mum explained to me properly.

gosh... all those years. and oh it happened on my kindergarden years

Lauren Jade

Ihen I was about 8-9 I asked mom how she became pregnant ( my baby sister). She simply explained that the mommys have eggs in their bellies and the daddy's had the fertilizer. My dad was realy into lawn care and had all the latet tool for lawn care. So with my mother's explanation this is what I pictured.......My mom lying down on the grass while my dad ran over her belly with the seed spreader.

Sue

Sue

When i was about 7 my best friend told me that she knew someone who had a baby because her pee touched a boy's pee and mixed to form a baby! I totally took this seriously too despite having had the birds and the bees talk the year before!

why mixing is bad...

I believed that women got pregnant through the belly button, since that is where the umbilical cord is attached

Anon

My mother told me that you got pregnant by seeds, I translated that into you ate seeds and got pregnant and because a watermelon was the only thing half the size of my mom when she was pregant with my little brother, I refused to ever eat a watermelon in scarce i would accidently eat a seed and end up with a pain in the butt like my brother. I still hesitate eating watermelons.

Vanessa

Me and my parents are fairly typical Brits; not uptight, exactly, but we don't discuss certain matters. So when I found a book in the library at school about the facts of life, I was curious and naturally I had a look. Now, the pictures in those books are kind of complicated, and I didn't have a lot of time to look at it, so for many many years I thought that a man put his leg (right up to the hip) inside a woman to make a baby. I was quite relieved when I found out how it really works.

Anon

When I was maybe 14 or so, I was walking home from school with my best friend Cindy. She wanted to ask me a question, and said 'dont laugh at me'. I told her I wouldn't. She asked: 'Can you get pregnant from a tampon?'

I was NOT sexually active yet, but was well informed by my Mother, who believed that if you didn't educate your children, you were only doing them a disservice.

I explained to her that penetration wasn't the cause of pregnancy, SPERM was.

Jessica

I thought that when a man and a woman wanted to have a baby, the man would stick his penis into a woman's belly button and urinate into her stomach. He would then do this everyday for 9 months. I thought that he kept doing it every day so the baby inside had room to swim around as it grew. I then thought that when the baby got a certain size, it would then wake up and then crawl its way through the woman's intestines and then push itself out of her anus. I thought they were telling a woman to push it out her ass like it were a piece of shit. Since i was a male, the only forms of pushing i could thing of was using your hands to push an object and pushing crap out your ass. I also came to the conclusion that woman had extra arms inside their butts that would help push out the baby.

Very strange

I was so scared when i was about 5 and my mum got pregnant. She came running up To me and was jumping around and said " hunny, mummy is going to have another baby!" and i blurted out DONT JUMP MUMMY OR YOU WILL BREAK THE EGG! I used to think that there was an egg inside you that popped out, and then the baby hatch!

what_was_i_thinking!

my mother told me about the birds and bees and said that I should be careful because sperm can go through anything and get me pregnant. Everytime I went to bed I was afraid there was a guy under the bed and the sperm would make it through the bed and I would be pregnant.
I was so afraid to go to sleep and would only sleep on my side. Making it harder to get to me.

Anon

When I was 7, my parents let me know that I was going to have a baby borther or sister. I replied, "OK, great. Let me know what night you need to sleep naked so I don't bother you." MY parents, needless to say, were perplexed. Apparently, I thought that women perioidically became pregnant, and that in order to continue the pregnancy, they had to sleep naked with their husbands to move to the next stage. They still tell that story. I"m almost 40.

birdsandbees

I used to believe that if the woman was on the bottom during sex, she would have the baby and if the man was on the bottom he would have the baby.

Anon

When I was a kid and adult friends of my parents discussed trying to get pregnant, and the difficulty of correct "timing," I pictured a couple having sex while looking at a stopwatch, to determine how long they were having intercourse. 30 seconds (or a minute, etc., I didn't know!) too long or too short a time, and forget it! No pregnancy would result.

Amy Peikoff

One time when I was really little I asked my mom where babies came from. (Now, I knew that if a woman was pregnant she was going to have a baby, but I didn't know how she got pregnant) Since my mom thought I was too young to know, she told me that babies came from God. This led me to believe that when a couple wanted a baby, they had to pray really hard and God would sort of plant a baby insided of them... which led me to believe that girl babies came from women, and boy babies came from men (with beer bellies!)

Anon

I used to believe that god gave couples babies when they got married, sorta just like immaculate conception for everyone. Then,in third grade, my music teacher got married and had a baby 5 months later. I knew that women were pregnant for 9 months, and realized that something was wrong. I asked my mom if maybe god made a mistake and thought they were married before they really were. I don't remember what her response was!

Meg

My mom told me I would go blind if I had sex. I was about 21 before someone told me that could never happen.

Marye

when i was little i thought animals rubbed they behinds together to get pregnant, so when i asked my mom how to have a baby, she said the same way animals do, needless to say, i avoided bumping into any boy's behinds for a long time ...

Anon