Up until I was ten I thought that babies were born wearing a knitted bobble hat and a cardigan. Girls had pink and boys had blue - which is how their mummy's knew what sex they were when they popped out.

Jeremy

I was 3 when my younger sister was born. My mother had a ceserean (sp?) and showed me the scar/stitches from it. Naturally, this led me to believe that when a baby was ready to be born, it pushed it's way out of it's mother's stomach, ripping her skin on the way, and that's why it hurt so much. I believed this until I was about 10 and learned how babies are really born... probably almost as painful though ;)

Kelly

I used to think that when a baby was born and the doctor slapped the baby, he was doing that to stop all the nurses in the room from chit chating so that he could make an announcement about the baby's gender . You know like an MC 'tings' a wineglass at a wedding or party so that people stop talking for him give a toast.

Little Miss Heard

When I was little, a friend of my parents gave birth to twins, and although I already knew (sort of) about sex and pregnancy I didn't understand why she would give birth to 2 children at a time. Another kid explained to me that the longer you have sex, the more children you'll get. This kept me worried for years, as no one had ever told me after how many minutes I'd have to stop having sex to get only one child, and I envisioned myself getting much too many children at a time... Until finally I found out that reality was actually a bit different... phew!

lara

Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys

Cassidy K

I used to believe that when a pregnant lady's water broke, i pictured her doing something normal, like shopping in a grocery store, and then a flood would come from under her dress and we would all be ankle-deep in water, so whenever i saw a pregnant lady, i tried to run away from "the flood."

qwerty

When i was four my mum got pregnant with my little brother. I asked her where the baby would come out. She told me the baby would pop out her belly button.

From the on i presumed that her belly button would fly out and the baby would dribble out as a jelly type thing and become a baby. I got so scared that she wouldnt be able to find her belly button again i used to walk around with a sieve in front of her and a cushion to catch the baby on.

Everyone thought it was amusing so never bothered correcting me.

Alyce.

When I was a kid my mother told me that babies came from her belly button. I thought she was a liar, because I was certain my sister and I each came from one of her boobs, which was why most women my mother's age had large breasts and hers were very small.

I did mess with the stork idea for awhile but the boob Idea stuck until I just didn't care to figure it out anymore. When I found out the truth I think I was in shock, because I lost interest in girls for awhile and tried not to think of how pretty they were. I guess nothing curbs sexual appetite in the young better than the nasty truth.

Now I am totally fascinated by it.

Anon

High school field trip to the zoo. Whale with a HUGE erection. Crystal kept screaming "look, look, it's having a baby". We were all to embarassed to explain it to her. It was pretty funny.

I don't think so.

when i was little i asked my mom how the doctor's knew if a baby was a boy or a girl. my mom told me they had a "special gift" because they were doctors.

maggie

At the age of seventeen, my now ex-boyfriend asked me why men had belly-buttons, I said "why do you ask" He responded, "Well I thought that's where the baby came out on the woman" (I think his mom had a c-section when having his sister) When I told him the truth, he said "So that's why women scream so much when they have babies on tv!

Holly

At our local 'toys r us' there was a section called 'babies r us' just before my sister was born my patrents seemed to spend alot of time in that section, and when she was born they were telling everyone how she was 10 pounds. So i figured babies came from a big factory that had a conveyor belt, u were slowly put togetther by machines, then they sent u to Toys r us where u were bought. Weird huh

Sophx

When I was little I asked my mom how I got out of her stomach and she told me she had a C-section. I didn't understand what that was, and I thought she meant sea section. So until I was about 9, when I found out the true meaning, I thought I was born on a ship.

Mandy

i used to believe that women gave birth out of their ears. when i was very young i saw a birth on tv and the baby came out of a flappy opening with hair around it. the only place i had hair was on my head! i carried this image with me and told all my friends about my newly discovered fact!

indi

One of my friends, until he took a sex ed class in the sixth grade, believed that a baby's gender was determined by how long the doctor cut his/her umblical cord.

Scott

When I was little I heard stories about a rock exploding and out comes a baby. So I always had this idea that babies are hidden in objects around us: desks, chairs, computers, trees... and when they explode, a baby would come out from it. I remember my mom told me about how she gave birth to me...but somehow, at that time, I had mistaken her meaning, because I always thought that I was a baby from a toilet!!~

Fred

I used to belief that girls are giving birth to girls and boys are giving birth to boys.. Until my dad said that it doesn't matter.. That girls can have boys and boys can have girls.. LOL

nindy

When I was very young, I thought babies were born out of their mother's armpit. No idea how I came to that conclusion....

Jay

When I was very small, I believed that babies were born with clothes on, and it was the clothing that told you whether or not you had a baby boy or a baby girl.

Lisa

When i was little i thaught that the man had to stick his penis into the womans vagina in the hospital room so that the baby would have somthing to hold on to on the way out.

Benny