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

When I was 4 my mum gave birth to my sister in a home-birth. I slept through the birth (it was 9.30, well past my bedtime!) but I was woken up to meet my new sister. Naturally I was quite excited as I went downstairs to find my parents sitting with the mid-wife and a close friend. The friend (a man) was holding my sister, and I refused to believe it was my mums baby; I thought she was hiding my sister from me. I figured the friend must have been also had a baby on the same night!
The only other thing I remember of that night is roasting chestnuts on an open fire. I find it hard to believe these memories are the same night but im sure they were.

Artemesia

I used to believe that babies came out of the mom's belly button. I knew they came out of a hole in the body but being small I had no idea where this hole would be other than the belly button. Kinda figured what else was it good for.

Jooky

One day I overheard my mum and my friends mum talking about when we were born and how much we weighed (I was 8 pounds, she was 6). Because the money in the UK is in pounds too, I thought that you had to pay to pick your baby up from the hospital and for years I thought that my mum and dad must love me more than hers did because they paid more for me.

Banky (UK)

I thought that babies came out of our butts until waaaay too late in life o.O

Tina

I used to believe all babies came out as girls and later on in life some of those girls turned into boys

Tom

i used to think that women get huge tummies because it means they are going to get a baby...n how the baby comes???well when the tummy is about to blow up God and the angels will come to her bed and leave a baby by her side...and angels will do magic and make her tummy flat again

amla

I happened to be very very shy about sex even being a boy. A friend of mine explained the whole "process" to me when i was half way through my teens, 16. Still, I ended up having the concept that babies were born from "behind". I always thought that girls were the most courageous of creatures to give birth to large babies, when I used to ..err.. shit!!

Back End Believer

I used to believe that, rather than giving birth, when the baby was born it would climb out the collar of whatever the mother is wearing by using a ladder. (I imagined a small ladder like one from a bird cage).

Morticia

i thought until 6, i walked up to my dad and said, "I came out of your tummy and u pooped me out." i was sooooo wrong

:o

I used to believe that when you give birth to a baby, the doctors would remove your entire stomach and after taking the baby out, sow it in place again.

Just Me

I don't know why, but when I was in kindergarten, I adopted the belief that when you had a baby, you simply pulled it out from under your shirt. So when me and my friends would play "house", and one of us would be the "mother", to have the baby, we'd stick a doll under our shirts, and when it was born we'd pull it out..

Mikaella

I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.

Tasha K

When I was in the fourth grade or so a friend and I were in a very serious discussion about how a baby was born. It was very confusing since we knew the baby grew in the mothers stomach and came out between her legs. We concluded that the baby had to pass through her entire small and large intenstine and that was why labours were so long and painful. But there was also the matter of the baby being digested while being born. I then realized that the baby grew in the mothers womb and that was what protected it from being hurt from stomach acid and what not!

Courtney

My little brother used to believe that if a baby was born in canada it would be white, if it was born in africa it would be black, etc...

Sisi

I used to think that you had to physically hold the baby in with your muscles. So, when you are holding your pee, then you get to the toilet, you have to let go right? Well, I couldn't figure out how they managed to go to the bathroom without dropping the baby in.

Also, my mother had a miscarriage before me, and I pondered whether this was what had happened

Anon

when i was 5 my great great grandma dident want me the truth about sex and giving birth so she said that babies fly through an open window in the hospital and to my mum LOL!!!!!

(my mum told me the truth soon after)

death bunny

When I was about 5, I believed that women gave birth to girls, and men gave birth to boys. I am now a teenager, and relise how it all happens.

Emily-Jayne

I used to firmly believe that a woman gave birth to a baby through her bellybutton- there was a drawstring on the inside and it could be opened and closed when necessary. I was afraid to wash around it- afraid I would unravel. When I found out the truth- this idea still seemed better to me.

Lithe

I used to think that when you were pregnant you pressed your bellybutton and the baby came out.

Bubz