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

when i was little my mum told me that babie are born through a little hole in your tummy. i looked at my own tummy and the only little hole i could find was my belly button so i assumed that babies were born out of your belly button. but what i didnt understand was how that big baby inside you could squeeze out of a tiny little hole. it was in y3 i found out that i was thinking of the wrong hole. lol! *smacks head*

belly babie

I used to think that women didn't have vaginas so a baby would come out of their belly buttons. I thought this for a few years, and then my mother told me that babyies were fed from the mothers belly button when a women was pregnant. That made me think that the baby would be eating out of a small tube in their mother and then all of a sudden it would be sucked into the tube and end up outside of the person.

johnny

When I was around 5 I told my mom that babies come out of your butt. It wasn't until I was 25 that my mom finally understood that I had no idea where babies really come out from. She thought my nickname for my vagina was butt!!

kerimoo

well i thought ::for a good 10 years of my life:: sad to say that a girl only had two holes and that the baby came out of a new hole that formed right when you were about to have the baby. i always wanted to find that hole.

crazy~

When I was pregnant a couple years ago, my 4 yr old daughter thought that I would explode when the baby was born. She was quite relieved to hear that it didn't work that way, though I didn't go into great detail about the way it really happens.

Anon

I used to believe that the sex of the baby was determined by the length of the pregnancy at birth.

My mother once said, when I was about 5, that if I was born eirlier, I would have been a girl. Much later I found that she said that because she had a miscarriage of a female fetus before me. :(

Matt

I asked my mom when I was little "Where do babies come from?" She politley explained that they lived in momies belly's until they were big enough to come out. I really thought they lived inside of you swing on a swing just waiting until the mommy told them "Ok you can come out now."!

SpexyMommy

Me and one of my sisters made our youngest sister belive that she was born too late because she had such big front-teeth. She thought that they had stopped her from coming out earlier. She belived it for many, many years.

Hanne - Norway

I used to think that you could only concive by penetration of the belly button and thats where all the mans sperm went.

Hotlips houlihan

I don't remember where I thought babies came from, but I have distinct memories of when I was about 5 and some kids in nursery school were playing with dolls, pretending the doll was havin a baby and they were doctors. They apparently thought all babies were born by caesarian section - one of the boys pretended to sew the doll up and another kid said "James, you forgot to take the baby out!"

Rachel

when i was young i used to think babies just poped out like a little pistle and the doctor caught it

Anon

When I was younger, I used to believe that when a lady had twins or triplets or more, that they all came out at once....I never understood how they could all fit.

Izzabehr

i used to believe gays produced men ....... and lesbians produced women.....as for the "in-betweens", I could never really figure out an answer

Made in India

I never really gave a lot of thought to where babies came from, until.....I saw an episode of Emergency in 3rd grade (1973). They were called to a house where a lady was in labor. They put a blanket on her tummy and POOF...a baby!!So I thought the babies come out by...reverse osmosis?

mommy0203

I must have watched a cesarean section on television. Anyway I got the idea that all babies were born by the doctor cutting open the mama's tummy and taking the baby out. When another child suggested a certain body opening that babies came out through, I thought that this person was being horribly disgusting and had a sick sense of humor.

Miss Priss

For some reason I believed that when a woman was about to have a baby that somehow, and I didn't know how, that the doctor's put a zipper on the mom's belly and then would unzip her and take the baby out.

Rachele

Up until the age of 9 or 10 i used to believe that babies came out of womans belly buttons, which is very logical considering all the visual clues you get. Needless to say i was disgusted whan i found out how babies really are born.

Anon

In my kindergarten days i believed that girls gave birth to girls and boys gave birth to boys.

kundan plaha

When I was pretty young(about 4 or 5)my mom told me about how some babies were delviered with a C-section. I already kind of knew how most babies were born, but after she told me about C-sections, I thought THAT was the way that most babies were born. Also when she told me how they had to cut the mother open, I though she meant they cut the mother in half(literally). I wondered how the woman survied this..

Amanda