I thougt that 9 months was the time most people needed to get everything they needed for a baby and if you were organized earlier you could have your baby earlier

fiona

I was the last child my parents wanted, so when I was about 3 years old, my dad got "fixed." Because of that, he couldn't pick me up for a while. To explain why he couldn't pick me up, my parents told me he got a shot so they wouldn't have any more babies. I am now 20, and just the other day I was talking to my mom about my fiance getting the "shot" after we had 2 kids. She then laughed hysterically and explained that there was more to it than that.

Anon

In junior school we were given small envelopes to donate money, on each envelope there was a printed photograph of a baby.

Around the same time I learnt that babies were made with 'seeds' and I imagined that when I was older I would have to go and choose a packet from a market stall in town!

Anon

I was told that people were made in Tescos in Dorking.

Chris

I suppose that my mother told me that part of a baby comes from "daddy's" testicles, so anyway, I believed that the whole testicle was somehow ejaculated through the man's penis and became the babies brain! I remember asking my mother if I would only be able to have 2 children or if they could put another one in!

Jin

I used to believe that my parents would pray to God if they wanted a baby, and the next day, he or she would be born. I think I was 12 before I realized this wasn't how babies were born. :)

Mary Thomas

When my wife was pregnant, my little niece told her to eat plenty of sugar and candy. When she asked her "why?", my niece said that she wanted us to have a girl because girls are made of sweets.

James

When I was three, my uncle remarked about my belly that it looked like I was having kittens. I actually thought I was pregnant with cats.

Amélie

I used to believe that the Daddy used to wee inside the Mummy to make a baby and the more wee-wee he did inside her meant you were taller when you growed up.

Matthew Isham

I used to believe that the neonate ward
in an hospital was a super-specialized
sort of store for babies . . . you went
to the hospital, the same way you went
to the butcher or bakery, and pointed
out the one you wanted; then, they sent
you home with your new kid. This belief
was reinforced by the fact that my mom
had a no-show pregnancy when I was 5.
We've got a picture of her at ~8 months,
in a bathin suit; and, all you'd say was
that she had a little beer belly.

Chris Owens

Everyone always says that my sister takes after my mom, and I take after my dad. So my parents used to tell me that my mom had my sister, and my dad had me! It made perfect sense, too, because it seemed like he was still carrying some weight from the pregnancy!

Samantha from California

I used to think that when a girl was born, there was already a baby inside her. As she grew, so did the baby, and when she was ready (meaning married) it would be born.

Anon

For some reason when I was a very young child, I was under the impression that sperm were located in the feet.

I don't recall how I thought sex occurred at the time. Luckily.

Brodie

When I was born, I was the youngest of 3. I used to think where I came out last, there wasn't enough room left in Mum's tummy, and so believed I came out of my Dad's bottom. You wouldn't believe how many dinner-time conversations arose from this when I was 4. Tee hee.

Anna H

My mum was very prudish and so I was told that babies came from under gooseberry bushes. Then I watched a graphical nature programme in the early sixties while she was out. There was an african woman giving birth in a mud hut, and you could see the head emerging. Beleiveing that babies came from gooseberry bushes I could not understand why or how someone had put a baby up inside a woman. It looked so awful I was traumatised for ages until the truth dawned on me.

Janice Davis

I used to believe that you swallowed a pink pill if you wanted a little baby girl and a blue one if you wanted a baby boy!

bubbles

I used to believe that babies came out people's butts, so one day I asked my mom "what happens if you poop when you're giving birth?"

Anon

I thought daddys made babies in a work shop... sort of like pinocio. and then angels came down and brought us to life... again like the story. It was cleared up for me one day when I asked my mom to have my father to go to his work shop and make me a new brother...

Anon

When I was about 8 and learned about the birdsand the bees,I assumed that the babies were born just a few weeks after sex. I also believed that the expectant mommy had to be careful to make sure, when she went to the bathroom, that she was just pooping, and wasn't giving birth. I also wondered how many babies had been flushed down the toilet by unobservant mothers.

TT

I used to think that, depending on which trimester, or which stage of pregnancy you gave birth in, you gave birth to animals, and that that's where animals came from. (It went mice, cats, dogs, humans. I had no idea about elephants and stuff like that.

Franklin