I first learned about the 'birds and the bees' from a book. In the book it had a front-on picture of the female reproductive system. I believed that it was a diagram of the inside of the whole body - that the woman would hold an egg until it went into her blood and down to her feet. :)
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the babys born in the back part of your body and not in the reproductive system.Anon
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara
- Up until the age of six, i sadly did not know that birds had feet. Anon
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- When I was little I believed little men and little women worked inside my body to make everything work.— Ashley