when i was little my mom always told me the old tale about babies coming from storks. she used to say that she was pregnant with me at my aunt's wedding so i always had this picture of my mom in a pretty dress, sitting in a pew and all of a sudden a stork dropped me into her stomach and she got fat. then i learned how it REALLY worked.

amber

When I first heard about sex (about 9), I was hoping there was some other way to have kids, because there was NO WAY I was gonna let that happen to me!

no sex please

I used to belived that babies where bought from ths hospital

Joe

When I was little I would follow my mom everywhere. One morning I followed my mom into the bathroom and watched her swallow a pill from this cool looking dial. Asked her what it was and she said It kept her from having babies.
So I decided that when you were grown-up you had to swallow a pill every day or else a baby would appear in your stomach. Then I asked if my mom would buy me a box of Tic Tacs so I could be really good at swallowing them when I'm grown-up.

I beleived this for quit some time. That is until I was in middle school and we had a class on the whole thing

Jess

When I was little, I used to belive that you didn't even have to have sex to have a baby, so when I saw a news article about a eight year old having a baby, I said to my Dad"Im going to have a baby when I'm ten years old.", But I was sad when My dad said I couldn't... now, a few years later, I realise why!

Kelsie

When I was young, I very brilliantly decided I knew how babies were made. When a couple kisses, their saliva mixes and the mixture is swallowed by the woman, which goes down to the tummy and the baby starts forming. Because kissing was gross, I decided I never wanted kids.

Anon

I lived a very,very,very sheltered life and never saw anyone with children who wasn't already married. It wasn't until my first day of the 11th grade that one of the girls came in with a big belly and took the seat behind me. She announced to some friends that she was having a girl. My curiosity got the best of me because I couldn't help but to ask her how her parents let her get married before she finished highschool.

You can only imagine the laughs I got from the entire class, including the teacher!!

Sheltered

When I asked my mom where babies came from (i was 3) she told me they came from flying storks. Then i asked my dad and he told me the real reason. I didnt know what to believe so i just decided mommy stuck her penis into storks.

Confused one

When my auntie was in hospital having given birth to my cousin (she was in her 20's) she couldn't understand how the woman in the next bed had had a aby when she wasn't married. She had to ask her mother when she came to visit. I'm not sure whether she thought that you couldn't get pregnant until you were married (even if you had sex) or that you were physically unable to have sex until you were married. There is also the possibility that she didn't know which part of being married had got her pregnant but I've never like to ask :-)

H (Edinburgh)

When I was little, I thought babies were made when the mother and father kissed. They exchanged germs or "cooties", and the father's saliva helped create a baby inside the mother. I always expected babies when I saw people kissing.

Vaporshi

When I was about 8 and just finding out about how babies were made, I used to think that the sex of the baby depended on which parent had been 'trying harder'when they made the baby. If the dad had been trying harder, the baby would be a boy, and if the mom had, it would be a girl.

steve

when i was about 8 my dad for some reson or another told me that when i was born i was blue. I knew about sex and so on then and ignored him, but later i thought he meant that i turned blue because i couldnt breathe (i'm asthmatic)

PaRaNoId

When I Was About 3 My Parents Told Me that Babys Were Seeds And Planted In The Ground And Wen The Plant Grew A Baby Appered In The Mothers Womb And That The Parents Could Go To The Shop And Buy Baby Seeds.

Jordan S

Up until 5th grade (when we watched the sex ed video), I thought that when girls reach the age for having children, they spontaneously develop an opening between their anus and their vagina where intercourse takes place. I also thought when a girl said she was having her "period" that was another term for saying she was having sex.

Anon

i used to believe that babies were made out of spit from people kissing too much, lol.

ecila

when I was little I thought pregnant women were just carring a baby under their shirt (that's what made 'the bump') and that they could just take it in and out when they wanted.

gadgetgirl

i used to believe that when u had a baby, it was hidden under a women's shirt. i then asked my neighbor "when u get dressed, how come the baby doesnt fall out?" that is when i was young and stupid

Jossy

when i was younger, i asked my mom if i could have a brother. then she said "ok, let's go to safeway and buy one." when we got there i wondered where the baby aisle way. hah!

=)

When I was about 5, maybe slightly younger, I used to think that when a baby got really tired, it could crawl back into its mother's womb through her belly button. I was a messed up kid, but I gave my mother a good laugh whenever I told her about it.

Anon