I used to believe that sex was a recently thought up invention, probably invented only a couple of years before I found out about it. I remember thinking "Phew, that's lucky, my generation will now be able to carry on the human race."

first kid on the block

When I was little, I overheard my mother telling a female relative about her pregnancies. Apparantly, with my little sister her stomach was huge, and with my little brother, well, that pregnancy was just a big pain in the a**. From then on, I was convinced that girls came out of the belly button, and that boys came out of women's butts. I used to always wonder if any baby boys were born into the toilet by mistake, while the pregnant women were taking care of business. Weird.

anonymous

When I was a kid I believed that God made babies on a conveyor belt. And when they were complete, God would poke each baby in the stomach as they were passing by and say, "you're done, you're done." And thats why we all have belly buttons.

Anon

i had a freind who believed that at a certain age you bought sperm in bags from woolworths.

Anon

i used believe that if someone had sex they would have a baby straight away

me

I thought my neighbor breastfed her baby because they were too poor to afford baby bottles. Maybe they were!

Kristen

I used to think that babies were made in a factory, and they get put in the hospital so they make it alive, because I noticed a room called Delivery, so I thought you went to the hospital to pick up your order!

Natski

As most children, I had trouble understanding where babies came from. My trouble, however, simply came in a misunderstanding of terms. For some reason, "born" sounded like "burned." ("Mommy, where was I burned?") Consequently, I was positive that children appeared from fire.

a Phoenix

I used to believe that my teenaged sister was telling the truth that my parents found me in the strawberry patch in our back yard. I remember looking at it very respectfully as a 4-year-old and thinking I had to tread carefully so as not to crush the plants, as I hunted for berries to eat on the sly. Strangely enough, it didn't disturb me to have my (jealous) sister telling me I didn't really belong in the family. I liked strawberries so much it seemed that a strawberry baby was much superior to a normally acquired infant. I felt quite satisfied to be me, and it made complete sense to me, because I REALLY liked strawberries.

Lisa

When I was really little, I used to think that it really was possible to make a girl from "sugar, spice, and everything nice"...I tried to mix a bunch of sugar, tea leaves, sparkles and candy hearts in our toilet and backed it up so badly that the pipes almost burst..needless to say I was in trouble for the longest time.

Haley

I used to believe that sperm were some kind of aerosol solution and that you could make someone pregnant by standing too close to them at the wrong time. Thank you Catholic School Sex-Ed........

Anon

Before I knew anything about sex and reproduction, I used to be amazed when someone looked like their father - I just thought that women got married and then automatically got pregnant - I had no idea that fathers had any part in this at all. I used to think "Gee, what a coincidence that some children just happen to look like the men their mother's are married to".

Luke

You know all those cartoons where the baby comes with the stork? Of course you have... And of course i saw those when i was about 7. But then again i saw pictures from the time mom was pregnant. When we was watching the pictures she allways said something like: Look, here is you inside mommy's tummy.
After that i remember allways wondering how the stork got into my mommy's tummy =)

Ingeborg

I used to believe that when a baby was born, the doctors could tell if it was a boy or a girl by if its hair was long, signifying a girl, or short, which would mean it was a boy.

Anonymous

As a child I saw the illustrated issue of "Life" on sex & embryo development. Seeing the child pictured within the mother's womb made sense but the shape of the womb was like that of a lamb chop. Therefore, I believed that the baby formed in a lamb chop within the mother.

Anon

When I was around eleven or twelve, I knew that sex was required to make babies, but I thought you only had to do it one time to have as many babies as you wanted.

Holly

I used to believe that Mummies had to eat everything that was going to make the babies that they were going to have. Hence my disgust when I saw my mother eating somthing that looked like bones when she was expecting my younger brother. It took me ages to figure out it was actually bran sticks!

Numpy number one!

At age 6 I used to believe that once a man and woman married, slipping the ring on her finger would trigger the baby to start growing. I remember telling one of my best friends this. Once I married, with a slip of the ring, 3 weeks later, the baby started growing!

Maria Herrera

when i was about 6 or 7, my mom and sister were talking about babies, i dont remember what they were saying but it must have been about their brains or something cause i said, "yeah, and babies are born without brains, so..." I never got to finish, they were laughing so hard i couldn't even hear myself think about how stupid i am.

i guess i never got a fully-functional one...

When I was pregnant, I was sitting one day having a nice cup of tea. My 3-year-old daughter came and stood by me and said, "You should't drink that!" Startled, I asked, "Why not?" "When it goes down, it'll burn the baby's head!" she said.

Joan Muir