I used to believe that an erection was called a 'wallet'.

Anon

when i was really little i asked my mom where i came from and she told me i came from the cabbage patch - like cabbage patch dolls

Anon

When I was in about the fifth grade, A group of friends and I went up to a younger kid on the playground and asked him where babies came from. We knew of course, but we wanted to tease the little kid to see what he would say.

His reply: "The plus minus [pregnancy] test."

Melissa

Up to the age of 12 I was convinced urinating while in mid copulation resulted in a Downs Syndrome baby.

Nathan Harlow

When i was a kid, i knew that something came out of the mans penis that made a woman pregnant. One night, i cant remember why, Dad slept in my bed and i was in my parents bed with Mum. I was terrified that if something came out of his penis onto my bed it could get inside me and make me pregnant the next time i slept in my own bed! It had me scared for weeks, esp when i had "cravings" for chocolate!

Mel C

when i was 5 my cousin told me that u get babies when u eat one up. i thought that was just horrible.

when i was older my mom told me that God sends babies to her stomach. now i was really confused.

so at dinner, i used to put my hands over my mom's mouth when she started to say grace coz i just couldn't live with the fact that my mom really wanted to eat a baby that God had sent.

Latini

My three brothers and I were raised Catholic in the 1950s and 60s, so any discussion remotely connected with "where did we come from" was met by my mother with panic. My youngest brother, aged five, the favourite and therefore hated by the rest of us, persisted; and getting nowhere he came to me, as I was the oldest, or perhaps just the loudest. I told him that Gypsies had left him with us, and further, told us that if he ever lied, we were to take him down to the lake and tie him to the tree there, and they would come and take him back. He panicked even more than Mother did, and didn't lie for years afterward.

The Big Sister

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 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

i used to think people could go to winn dixie to pick up their baby....

crazy

i used to think that all girls and women were born with little fetus-like things growing inside them, and once you reached a certain age it would automatically start growing into a baby.

allison m

When I was in elementary school, an older student told me that if you had a pain in your right side, you were having a baby girl. A pain in your left side ment you were having a baby boy. I had to get my appendix out at the age of 17 - thankfully, I had learned where babies came from by then.

Barbara

when i was little my mum shopped at Marks & Spencer a lot i used to see posters with babies faces on this made me think that when you went to marks and spencer u could pick a box with your favorite baby in a 'baby in a box' lol

blobbohead

When I was little, about 8 or 7 I used to beleive that when you were born, you had a baby inside you and as you grew so did the baby until you got old enough and then you had a baby. I believed thid until I was in Junior High and they showed us "rhe movie" that told us about our monthly cycles, but I still did'nt know how babies were concieved untill a few years later . I lived a very sheltered childhood!

niavegirl

I used to believe that babies were made by praying, I thought the parents would go upstairs or to their bedroom and pray for a baby and the baby would come. I remember watching a show where the parents decided they wanted to have another child so they ran up stairs, I asked my mom how babies were born and she said "um by praying"

wutever

I used to believe that the only way you could have a baby was if you got married and then prayed to God that you would be pregnant and He would put the baby in the mommy.

Anon

When I was way too young to learn about sex, I got it into my mind that there was a possibility that I might have a baby (even though I was a boy). After repeatedly questioning my mother if I would be able to keep my baby, she told my father to explain...

Being too young to understand, I went for the longest time thinking I had germs on the end of my "manhood".

Needless to say, I paid special attention at cleaning it whenever I could.

Kyle

When I was young I used to believe that you could buy a baby from a catalogue. They always showed the babies in the coaches you could buy but I wanted the BABIES. I used to beg my mom to buy one. Instead of telling me you couldn't buy babies she just said, "I have enough with you and your brother!"

Theresa

i used to believe girls laid eggs

Bill

When I was young I didn't know about amniotic sacs or mucus plugs or all that other fancy stuff that keeps the baby inside the womb. What I was told, was that you simply had to push the baby out. I used to think that if you touched a pregnant woman's stomach, it would be considered "pushing" her baby out, and it would come tumbling right out! I was always afraid to touch my mom when she was pregnant with my younger sister for fear of a miscarriage.

Jenny