I knew where babies came from, but I didn't know how they got there, so I just assumed at age 9 that I had the baby all ready inside me until it was time for it to come out.

christina

I asked my mother where I came from, and was told she'd gotten me in Macy's basement. Every time she went shopping downtown, I asked her to bring me back a baby sister. She never did.

Ronne

When I was in first grade my babysitter had a son a couple years younger than I was and we were great friends. One day his aunt brought his newborn cousin over to visit. We both loved the baby and decided we should make one of our own. We climbed in to bed (fully clothed) got under the covers and hugged each other. I also made him kiss me on the cheek to make sure we would really make a baby. We decided we would have a little boy and name him the same name as his little cousin. I was crushed when my best friend told me I couldn't really be pregnant because I didn't have my period yet at school the next day.

Anon

When I was about 5 I had no idea how babies were born and assumed that they just appeared out of thin air. I confused the hell out of my parents by asking what would happen if a baby was born in our kitchen while Mum was washing up.

Lee

When I was little my friend's father told me he was pregnant, and I believed him cause his stomach was so huge. I always used to ask him when he was going to have the baby, but he never did.

emmy

I used to believe that a man and a woman made a baby by pressing their stomachs together and hugging each other really tightly... and that baby 'ingredients' were pased from the father, through his belly button, into the mothers belly button and a baby was made. I also thought the baby came out of the belly button when it was born... and I couldnt figure out how it would ever fit!

Stephanie

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 mom and dad would want a baby, he would go to the grocery store and get a sunflower seed. He would stick it in mom's belly button and in a couple of minutes... a baby would come out! Boy, was I wrong...

Smurfette

For the longest time, I had no idea how babies were made. I read about evolution in a magazine, and concluded that all the time, monkeys were evolving into people. I guess adult apes turned into babies then.

Pat

I thought that people have babies as soon as they kiss.

Lots of other kids told me this when I was about 8.

(you know how much kids fear sex)

guess

I used to believe that when a man and woman kissed they were actually having sex. I thought a seed would pass up from the man's stomach, into his mouth & pass it to the woman to swallow!!! I was always terrified of kissing a boy...

Co-co

When I was first told about intercourse, I didn't believe it. How could peeing inside a girl make a baby?

Art

My parents told me that babies were made from dimonds under cabbage patches, that would grow into a baby.

Anon

My best friend in elementary school insisted that it was impossible to have a baby if one wasn't married. If someone had posession of a baby, it meant they stole it from the hospital.

Jen, MI, USA

I always wondered how it was decided if you would come out a boy or girl. When I was younger I believe that whichever parent wanted a kid more, than the baby would come out their sex. I'm a girl, so I obviously thought my mom wanted to have me more than my dad.

-e.corinna

i thought kids were born by planting a seed in a magical flawer and waiting for 10 mounths for it to grow. in the 10 mounths the mother will carry the flower where ever she goes until it's old enough to walk.

I'm a stupid kid

I used to believe you knew the sex of a baby (when born) by looking to see if they had hair or not. Girls if born with hair, boys if their born without hair.

Sandy

When I was in elementary school I still didn't know how do people reproduce - I knew nothing about getting pregnant and producing semen, all I knew was that baby is born in woman's stomach. So no wonder I thought that people had 'invented' sex because had discovered that males have penises and females have slits so as they were perverted they started playing inserting penis into that slit. How good I didn't tell somebody about my 'revelations'!

Was tut Jurek weh?

When I was little my mother told me that semen came out of mans penis and that's what you needed to get a baby inside a womans tummy. My mom was always really straightforward when talking about that but she always used the word "semen". Up until 13 or something like that I believed that because women are hurt when delivering a baby then a man is supposed to hurt when delivering the semen. Logic, right? That was because I always thought the semen were quite big and it would hurt for them to come out. Like a melon semen.

Mike

My mother was pregnant with my little sister when I was about 2. I asked my mother where babies came from and she tried to describe sperm and eggs to me. As she told me this I said "Like chicken eggs and tadpoles Mommy?" For many years, that's how I thought babies were made....chicken eggs and tadpoles

Melissa