When I got more information of where babies came from, I used to think they’d come out of the mother’s stomach. I was terrified to ever have a baby, since I thought the baby blaster out the mother’s stomach and left a hole, the bellybutton. OUCH!

Rebecca Sears

At a young age, I was under the belief that having sex had something to do with kissing after you were married, that there was some magical type of kiss you could perform to make babies.

I also believed that if you positioned yourself right, you could possibly have a child without the opposite gender's involvement. This, in my mind, explained same sex couples, The Immaculate Conception, and Anakin Skywalker's mother (In Episode One, I clearly remember one of the jedi asking her, "Who is the father?" and her reply of "There isn't one." I took this extemely literally).

Victoria

when i was younger i thought that you came out flat when you were born. then the doctor "blew" you up to inflate you. and.... you know the thing you blow in to inflate a floatie? well i thought that wether he left that out or pushed it in determined the sex... man was i smart!

anon

I asked my mom how do people get babies out of their tummy, she said they need to squeeze the baby out like they're pooping. I thought pregnant women have to check the toilet bowl and make sure if the baby is born or not before flushing.

Anon

I used to believe that all pregnant women gave birth to their babies on Labor Day, which was why it was called what it was.

By the time I was going to deliver my first baby, I knew better, of course, but as it happened, I did go into labor on Labor Day.

Martha LT

I used to believe that babies were born from eggs (dinosaur eggs) and they would sit on them and keep them warm until they were ready to hatch

naish

I used to believe that babies came out of a womans belly button.

Anon

My parents were always honest with my sister and I about where babies came from, so I knew about sex and reproduction. My sister and I were both c-section babies, though, and I thought that was how babies were born. My best friend told me about natural childbirth, and I was completely horrified! I couldn't understand why ANYONE would do that!

Becca

i used to belive that having a baby means that they would go to the store and buy one and came back with a baby and i would say that i wanted 1 too.

mirella

I used to think that when they said "push" in a delivery room, it meant that the mother was holding a button. Robo-Baby haha.

Anon

I used to believe that I was born from an egg and would wonder if I had a hard time pecking put of my egg

Cheryl coffman

When I was younger I was convinced that since I was a girl the next baby my mom would have would be a boy, just to keep it even. Needless to say when my mom got pregnant and had a girl I was in complete shock and confusion. In my anger I yelled at her to return it for a new one, I guess I thought you could make exchanges, and then threw the telephone to the ground.

angry big sister

When I was young, I believed that while a woman was giving birth, if she and her husband french kissed while she was pushing, the baby would come out faster.

Catherine

When i was young . I used to think that your mum had to chop her leg off, have her baby and stitch her leg back on!!

Anon

My mom always told my sister and me that mermaids had babies out of their mouths: they would blow a bubble with the baby inside and then the doctor would burst the bubble.

MEG

Pranks and jokes are a natural way of life for my family. When my mom was a little girl, her mom gave her the customary "where babies come from talk", only she changed the story a bit. As a result, my mom spent her childhood years believing that you had to "poop" your baby out, if you get what I mean... Years later, when it came to my own lesson, my mom couldn't resist adding her own touch to it as her mom had done before her. Embarrasingly enough, it was my belief for many years that babies, (which my mom kindly informed me came out the size of a large watermelon,) had to be pushed out through your bellybutton!! I never did have much respect for that particular body part after that, nor did I ever eat another watermelon!

Jenny R

When I was pregnant with my second child, my first born was around three. I used to watch "A Baby Story" every day during that pregnancy. Well, after warching it one morning, my first born gladly informed me that when I went to have the baby, that the doctor had to cut off my leg to get the baby out. Apparently she thought this because during the birth part of the show, it does appear as if the baby is coming out of the mother's leg!

Jennifer

I used to belive that babies "acquired" their head hair during birth and that's why mommies have "hair down there."

What was I thinking?

My dad showed me the movie Alien when I was really little and I thought from then on that babies were born that way. Like, the mother's stomach got bigger and bigger until finally it ripped open and the baby came out. I didn't learn otherwise until one day I asked my mom why there were no scars on her tummy "from the baby bursting out"

Lyssa

Babies are born by opening a door on the mother's stomach (for which the belly button is the knob) and walking out.

Meg