I used to believe that a seed came out every time I passed urine and that when the time came I would have to save it, plant it and it would grow into a baby - that would certainly save the pain of childbirth wouldn't it!

Anon

When I was a 4 year ol lad (boy) .I remember I was in the frontroom and I was watching some health channel and some lady was givin birth. I was staring at it and saw her screaming.

Well later I was in bed and I just remember crying real loud and my mum came in. There were tears in my eyes and I was screaming "I DONT WANNA HAVE A BABY! I DONT WANT A BABY!" and my mom was trying to comfort me, but I just kept screaming.

Mike

I used to believe that my Mum laid an egg and Dad sat on it...and it hatched and I came out...pretty silly, huh?

-Embarrased-

Not my moment, but a boy at my school. He joined us from another school, aged 16. He let slip to a group of us that women have babies by taking a "birth pill": take the pill, and a baby soon follows. Incredibly, to me, both his parents were family doctors.

I took him to one side when we were alone and told him the truth. He really didn't believe me. I hope he asked at home...

Brian

When I was a child, I used to believe babies were born in cabbages. Once my mother brought a cabbage home and I was scared she would cut it and kill the baby, so I used a pen to try to dig a tiny hole in it to see the baby...
No need to say the cabbage was ruined.
I didn't get punished though, for my mother thought it was cute. But she did explain that babies were NOT born in cabbages... I remained doubtfull for a long time.

xd

To this day, I have no idea where this particular belief of mine came from, except that it was a sudden theory that came to me when I was sitting in the playground in 3rd grade. There was a girl whose older sister had told her what sex was and the girl was so excited that she knew a "secret," so she refused to tell any of us what it was.

So, of course, I was mystified and I sat in the playground for twenty minutes, trying to figure it out. Somehow I came to this conclusion:

Sex was when a man and a woman went to a restuarant and had a tea party, just the two of them. The girl would giggle a lot and the guy had to smile for one hour straight and then, when things went well, they got to drink very delicious tea. And then, -poof-, they'd look under the table and there'd be a small child there.

John T

I'm not sure if this is the right section,
but when i was a kid, my friend told me he is so smart because his mom swallowed a dictionary when she was pregnant. And he read the book in her stomach.
I got mad at my mom for not doing that, and i think it's her fault that i'm so stupid. Hehe

Mika

i thought that when people had sex, if the sperm went up one fallopian tube it would be a male, and if it went up the other it would be a female

Shorty

I used to believe that babies were attached to the umbilicle cord and then stuffed down the throat grow.

anonomous

When I was a just about ten I heard about erections (and sex is general) from a sex education class in school, from what I heard I though that the penis would stick straight DOWN when aroused. I was seriously concerned about this because I simply could not figure out how reproduction could be accomplished unless the woman was standing on her head.

I think that ten is too young for sex ed.

Anon

When i was little I used to believe that if your mummy and daddy got naked in the bathtub together, they wouldn't have human babies, but instead they'd have baby ducks.

Anon

When I was three or four years old and my mother was pregnant with my kid brother, I kept asking my mom if she was going to give birth to a kitty or a puppy.

While I understood the principle of pregnancy, I was convinced moms gave birth to everything, from birds to horsies.

Lewisgmb

I guess my mother had a sense of humor, or maybe she was just a cruel woman with nothing better to do but to torture her first born. In any event, she told me when I was a kid that one day, she was picking her nose, and saw something moving in her booger. She decided for some reason to take care of it, and that moving thing turned out to be me. Imagine believing throughout your childhood that you were nothing but a booger child. I don't know why it didn't occur to me to inspect every booger I ever picked, but thank god I never did that!

Anon

I use to believe that storks brought babies;and wondered why they didn't have a section for stork parking at the hospitals in our city.

Charles E. Beavers

I used to believe that the only way parents could have babies was if they got married. It had something to do with putting on the ring.

But even funnier than that is that my sister thought babies were present at the wedding.

Lincoln

As a kid, although I knew all about the sperm and egg thing, I was a bit muddled about intercourse. I didn't realize that it was a "deliberate" act. I thought it was just something that happened sometime during the night while you were sleeping. Therefore it made perfect sense to me that girls and boys who weren't married shouldn't "sleep together".

me

I remember being a very sheltered and naieve 10 yr old, and finding out about the facts of life in a very clinical biology lesson at school. I was totally stunned, and so grossed out, that when the teacher asked if anyone had any questions, and all my classmates sensibly looked at the floor... I blurted out " But do they have to do that EVERY time they want a baby...surely once would be enough!"... LOL!

Andy - UK

I used to believe that one white parent and one black parent made an Asian baby.

Carolyn

Up until I was about 10, I used to believe babies were born with white sheets around them and in time, the sheet turned into skin.

iceboy

my mom told me that abaies come from rabbits, that rabbits would come into your house from chimneys and bring your baby to you!

Sally Hansen