When I was little, I thought when you had a baby shower, a mother got into a shower while she was pregnant. Then everyone would wait till she came out then clap.

Anon

When I was little, I thought that after you got married, your babies were shipped to you in boxes with airholes.

Ray

When I was young, my parents told me that babies came from God. Not very explanatory. I had seen bits on TV about doctors & hospitals & mothers strapped on tables to give birth--so I worked out that when a baby was due, the doctor would stand in the hospital parking lot and wait with his arms out for the baby to drop from heaven. They strapped the mother to a table so she wouldn't get excited & jostle the doctor. Why did her belly get big? God made it happen so the doctor would know when to go outside & wait! :)

diane

My father had a rather generous belly when I was young, one which made quite a lot of noise. As I would lay my head upon his stomach, listening raptly, he would inform me how long before the puppies arrived. I was nearly eight years old before I discovered that dad did not have puppies brewing within!

Carol

I used to believe that mommies gave birth to girls and daddies gave birth to boys.

Jackie

Up untill I was around 8 or 9 I knew very little about sex and reproduction. I thought that when someone had sex both people just looked at each other naked...just standing there.

Also, when I was little I would hear stories about womens water breaking before they would have their baby. So, I thought that if you drank a WHOLE lot of water you would get pregnant...let's just say that I don't drink much water anymore.

Caitlin

When I was a kid I thought that in order for a woman to become pregnant, a man would have to take a special pill; digest it and eventually poop it out. Then the woman would have to find the pill in the mans poop and eat it and she would become pregnant

brmanuk

I was told when I was very young that babies were created by combining the DNA of the parents. Until I was five, I imagined that the parents became momentarily intangible, then passed through each other to accomplish this.

Anon

when my mom explained how babies were made, I asked if people had to have intercourse for every baby, or if they did it once and the babies just kept coming after that. After I heard her answer, I was amazed that the Catholic family across the street had done it seven times!

Kristen

When my brother was little, my mother asked him if we knew where babys came from. He replied, They come from ChildWorld. (then a toy store in Massachusetts)

Sarabee

For a long time, I thought that I came from Sears, just like everything else my parents bought. I imagined that my parents went to Sears and picked me out and that I was enclosed in plastic shrink-rap and stored in a large refridgerator with a bunch of other kids.

Randall

I used to believe that babies all sat on a conveyor belt in heaven: babies of all kinds (humans, turtles, dogs, etc.). Then they drop off into their momma's arms.

Kelci

I used to believe that 'girl' sperm were pink and 'boy' sperm were blue, so that if a pink sperm got to the lady's egg first the baby would be a girl etc. This was after a very colourful sex education film at school. I believed this until a worryingly advanced age.

Jo

I thought sperm were fish and when I got a goldfish I went around telling everyone i had a sperm

Kara

i used to think that everybody has been the opposite gender at least once in their life, sometimes more. i would say, "oh, yeah. i remember doing that when i was a girl!(im a guy, in case you havent figured it out yet)" I would also say things to my sister and mom like "do you remember when you were a boy?" kinda makes you wonder...

i bet i worried a lot of people then......

When I was a kid I felt terribly jipped! For the longest time I was convinced that black women produced chocolate milk and white women produced regular milk. Being white, I was upset to find out that I had missed on on the chocolately goodness of chocolate breast milk as a baby!

Meghann

When mom explained that unborn babies eat through the bellybutton,my sister and I believed pregnant women would feed their babies by placing the food (i.e. a chicken leg), in their belly button and the baby would just reach out and take it. -We always wondered where the bones went.

octogreen

When I have questions, I consider my mom pretty darn trustworthy. I usually believed a lot of things she would tell me ... and then would proceed to tell others. I didn't understand sex, so I put some ideas together and asked her about it. I asked her if conception occurred after two people peed on each other. Unfortunatley she said, "yes."

ohman.

told a friend of mine that white mens sperm was white, black mens sperm was brown and oriental mens sperm was a kind of off green yellow colour.... she still believes it to this day.

Jabs

When I was about 9 I looked at my mom's drivers liscence and and saw where it said 'Sex:F' (meaning that she's a female). So, genuinely concerned I asked her, "Mommy, if you failed sex how did you have me and my brother?"

Tiff