When I was little I used to believe that if the mom wanted to give something to her unborn baby, she could just eat it. So if she wanted to give the baby a stuffed animal to play with, she would just swallow it whole.

Natalie

I was about 6 when my mother decided to get her tubes tied because my parents didn't want anymore kids. When she was having her operation I told evryone she was getting her tonsils tied!

~M

In junior high our sex ed teacher told us that sperm could crawl up our legs and still get us pregnant, so we had to make sure to keep our clothes on, whatever the boy was doing with his "thing".

Anon

I used to think that when Mums were pregnant, they had to swallow orange and lemon pips so that little trees would grow so tha the babies would have something to eat

Rozy

When I was about 5,I believed that the babies in a pregnant womean"s "belly" were all bloody. My mother explained that the babies were nice and clean and cosy in their own"special place". From then on I was convinced that a baby had a room with a tiny crib and a window with curtains!

Anon

My mum said that babies came from teabags and when mummies wanted to have a baby the daddies had to make them a special cup of tea with the teabag!Beck

Bex

When I was told that babies were made by the man going inside the woman and planting his seed I was confused - surely you couldn't get a whole person inside you???
so i thought the man took a magic potion that made him shrink, he somehow got inside (i think the bellybutton was involved), planted his seed then grew back to normal size once he was out!

Lauren

I thought that maybe babies came from a comet in space like Superman until I realised they came from their mother's tummies. I then wondered how on Earth that would happen and proposed the following theory... First idea was that a baby was a natural growth formation placed by God when a couple were truly in love and wanted one. Then I had the idea that maybe when a mother sleeps, God sends angels or fairies to Earth to magic the woman to sleep..they would then cut open their cranium, take out the brain and any other obstruction, dump the foetus in the tummy, put everything back and magic away the blood. I drove myself into such a puzzle at five that I asked for the truth.:) When I knew about sex, I had this belief that a man just gets his penis in his fingers, walks up to the lady and puts it in. The sperm just swam out like water from a pipette and was effortless. I think I learned the truth a few years later when I asked more questions. :)

Ocean-Sirius

When my oldest daughter was about 3, I was pregnant again. My daughter thought that by talking into my belly button, she could talk to her sister. Normal enough, right? Well she would also try to stick food in there for her sister and once she even tried shoving a picture she had drawn in there.

Wendy

Since I can remember, my dad told me and my brother that he got us from Japanese monsters. So whenever we were being bad, he'd tell us that he was gonna give us to the gypsies. Up until the time I was about 8 or 9, i thought that gypsies were Japanese monsters.

Cait

My young (14years??) nephew thought that fertilised chicken eggs were made by the rooster going around and sitting on the eggs and "injecting" them. My farm-wise son put him right, however he insisted for some time that his mother had agreed this "was probably how it happened". I think that might be a lesson in listening to your children properly.

Auntie Vicki

I used to believe that when a man and woman had sex one of the man's balls went into the woman and the baby grew from it. Therefore I thought you could only have 2 kids. I thought that people that had more than 2 kids had stolen/bought one from someone else.

Jimmy

My mum's version of the birds and the bees was: "The guy puts his juice into the girl." So for years I had this picture of my dad pouring orange juice - not apple, which was yucky - into my mum's mouth. I imagined different flavours of juice would produce different kind of kids.

Amie

To explain my new baby sister, I was told she came from The Baby Shop. They gave me a big box of Duplo and said that this was from my sister. I thought they had got a special deal, Buy a Baby, Get Free Toys!! (My mum sold the duplo when I got older, I was really sad, I wanted to keep three figures from the set.)

Kitunae The Klot

When I was very, very small, I used to think that babies were carried throughout the mother's lifetime; from the moment she, herself was born, until her child was born from her. And how did the new baby know when to be born? (Our child's intellect we should all wish to retain at least a spinter of) Of course: the baby arrived when it heard the WEDDING BELLS!

SPD

When I was little, I believed that babies were born with clothes on. Once I was playing a game with my brother--I was having a baby--my Betsy-Wetsy doll. My brother said I had to take the doll's clothes off. I was shocked. He said, "But babies are born naked!" I refused to believe him, until my mother confirmed it.

Ronne

I was told that the angels brought babies to the Mothers in the Nursing Home. I asked how they knew to get babies who looked like the mothers. My Mum told me that the angels looked at the mothers and matched babies to them . I wanted blonde babies , so decided I would dye my dark hair before I went to this obviously holy place to fetch a baby home!

Lucy Jane

I believed that babys really were found under a cabbage bush at the bottom of the garden, as a child the film Mrs Wiggs and the cabbage patch kids was all the go.

Anon

When my sister was little, she believed that women had babies and men had poodles!

Sarah P

When i was a child and we are talking very young, i asked the classic where am i from question. my mother,told me that she found me under a cabbage leaf in a vegetable patch. this led me bing a 80s child to belive that i might be the real cabbage patch kid.

Cuai