i am from a very catholic family and thought that people only had babies when they were married. when i was about six my uncle got married in a church, at the end he and my aunt went into another room with the vicar (i now realise it was to sign the marriage license) and i thought that they were going in there to make a baby and the vicar had to be there to help them.

lucy

When I was about 2 years old I woke up one morning in my parents bed and promptly showed my mother my penis then asked to see hers. Apparently I was quite surprised once I found out the truth.

For all I knew I was going to grow boobs someday.

Ryan Whitney

I used to think that to have a baby, men penetrated the woman's belly button. This was of course done by doing lining up perpendicular to the woman, and doing pushups into her belly button. I also figured that was why we did pushups in school. For training!

Keal

Me and my brothers used to call sex 'urruh' because of the noise my mum and dad used to make.. we were fasinated on what was happening and why it looked so fun. I understood the part on how the baby was concieved but i used to think that the baby got out the mums body by the belly button/the doctor sliced the tummy open. Or something like that.

J

When I was very little and first asked about babies, my mom just said "Mommies and Daddies do a special sort of hug, like a very tight hug."

The next morning they hugged in the kitchen and I smiled, thinking, "I hope it's a girl!"

Kelsey

I used to believe that your tummy button was the hole where you put a key to open the door to get the babies out.

Jenny D

At the age of three, I used to believe that doctors and nurses made babies in the hospital and that you could get a baby on a first come, first serve basis. Many were the times when my poor mother had to try and distract me as we played "tug of war," while walking past the local hospital while I begged my mum, "Let's go in and get a baby Mummy! Let's go in and get a baby NOW! I want one NOW" "Tomorrow," she'd always tell me, " Not now. Maybe tomorrow. We'll go tomorrow." Sadly for me, tomorrow never came and I remain ( thirty three years later) an only "child"! Oh well!

DZ

When I was young my uncle told my brother and myself that kids came from Sears and if we weren't good he'd return us.

not from sears

From a young age I had a book called "How Babies Are Made". Of course, I never bothered to read it. Thanks to one illustration, I spent a long time thinking that a women gets pregnant when she and a man lay in bed and face each other.

Anon

When I was small we had encyclopedias for children called ChildCraft. In one of these books was a picture of an outline of a man and a woman with an arrow pointing between their middles. For several years I was convinced that if a married man and woman stood next to each other, some sort of substance would float through the air, making the woman pregnant. You had to be grown up and married for this to happen, which is why it was okay for me to stand next to boys.

Noelle

I used to believe that Men had boys and Women had girls. I didn,t know HOW exactly the boys were born, but I was sure all along how the girls were born.

Anon

I used to believe that people didn't have sex, the sperm just came out of the man (subconsciously) some nights, crawled across the bedsheet and went into the woman (i spent many sunday mornings looking in my parent's bedsheets to see if I could find some loose sperm)

ANON

I used to believe that you have conjoined twins by having sex during the pregnancy, making the two fetuses attch to each other.

Rachel

I used to think that all animals were compatible with each other, so if you somehow managed to mate with a dog you would have puppies! I always fantasized ways that I could have baby panthers, because that would have been so cool..

Anon

In old movies in India they showed hero and heroine hugging eachother and then the heroine got pregnanant. I believed that one got pregnant just by hugging.

Desi

I used to believe that when a man touches a woman and when he sleeps with her she gots a baby. When I was about 7(before 4 years!) my uncle touched my hair and i started to cry and scream ˝you idiot im pregnant now and i did´nt wanted to have sex!˝ When I was 8 my mom bought me a book about puberty and then I realized.

I don´t want to get pregnant so don´t touch me!

when i was younger i thought that babies could see out of the mummies belly button

strawberry

When I was 5 my parents got divored. When my dad and new stepmother - who weren't married yet - told me my stepmother was going to have a baby and it would be a new brother or sister I told them that it wouldn't be my brother or sister because it was 'hers' and not my mom's baby. They told me it would be my sibling because it was my dad's kid and I said "Boys can't have babies!' In my mind a boy became a dad just because he was married to the lady who had a baby. I knew nothing of sex and because no one was willing to explain how girls got pregnant it took me a while to accept my half brother as really my brother and not just some kid to play with.

anon

My Younger brother wanted to know where babies came from, so he asked my Mom...He was around 5 or 6 and Mom wasn't ready to explain this to him yet...SO, She told him that she bought him at K -Mart on "Blue Light Special"!
For years he really believed this, Especially since the other 3 of us would threaten to take him back for a refund because Mom kept his receipt, just incase she wasn't happy with her purchase!

(yea, I know we were pretty rotten)
Sorry "Pooh Bear"! Love ya kiddo!

Julie

When I was a little girl, my big sister got pregnant. In his own way, my father explained it to me...he told me that she had eaten a watermelon seed, and that it was growing in her belly, and that the same went for any fruit seed. I used to believe that she was growing a watermelon in her belly.

Jessica