sex: getting pregnant

I used to believe that when a girl sleeps besides a boy, she will get pregnant. When I was a child, I used to go out of my bed and snuggle beside my dad. Later on I was afraid to do so thinking I maght get pregnant as well.

Because TV programems used to always talk about "Keeping" the baby I was convinced until the age of 12 that you got pregnant randomly and then you had sex to keep it- if you ignored it, the baby would go away from inside you.

My mom told me that only married couples could have babies, and it happened when they love each other a lot, so they ask God for one. I knew some unmarried people had babies, so I thought that they "tricked" God by wearing a wedding ring, having people call them Mrs., living in the same house, etc . . . basically PRETENDING to be married.

When I was about five my dad and I were on our way back from the lake. My mom was not around. I asked my dad out of nowhere where babies came from. He was really quiet, and then he asked me if I wanted to wait and talk to mommy about it. I told him no, we had a long car ride he could tell me, I didnt want to wait for mommy. He thought for a minute, and then told me that when a mommy and a daddy loved eachother they would hug and when thier bellies bounced together it made a baby.
For years I was terrified that if I hugged anyone of the opposite sex, I would get pregnant!
I only found out otherwise when I was on a playdate and my friend hugged her daddy. I screamed out, "Dont let your bellies touch, you will get pregnant!"

Thanks, Dad.... See why it is important to tell kids the truth?

My mom told me that my dad told her that you both have to have an orgasm to get pregnant. My mom was 16, dad was 20, and needless to say, 9 months later I was born.

When I was little, I was told that too have a baby, you had to go to the Doctor. I knew what sex was, so I thought the Doctor had to have sex with you. Then bam, you would be pregnant and the baby would come right out.

i was quite the hypochondrica...until i was pretty much 15 i believed everytime i got a stomach ache or felt naucious in the morning i was pregnant...i would like...be worried about that for weeks and kept pestering my mom about it til she almost kicked me outta the house

I believed that a man bought a woman the pill and gave it to her so she could get pregnant. On a public bus into town, at about the age of 8, I asked mummy "How do you get a baby in your tummy, is it that pill that Daddy bought". The bus was packed and of course there was quite a few titters at mum's embarassment. I was told " I'll tell you when your older".

Before I knew anything about sex, my mom told me that she took birth control pills because she didn't want to have another baby. So, until I learned about the birds and the bees, I thought that once you reach a certain age, you would just spontaneously become pregnant, unless you took the little pill.

About 7 years ago, my little brother was 3. I remember my mother coming home one day excited and told all of us that her friend was going to have a baby. My little brother then asked my mother, "But where is the baby right now?"
My mother then said "In her belly"
Then my brother promply asked,
"Did she eat it?"

When I was a little girl I thought that virginity was a diease that prevented a woman from becoming pregnant. I thought this because the church I went to said it was a miracle for the virgin mary to becoming pregnant. I was 13 before I found out what it really meant.

Until I was 13, I thought one could get pregnant from anal sex. Having seen one of those 'visible human' models, I got the mistaken idea that everything in the abdomen was somehow interconnected.

For years I thought you could only get pregnant if you had sex when you have your period, any other time was safe the reason being when younger we had a female dog which mom said had to be kept in when she was in season. She got out one time and the dog up the road mounted her and this resulted in a litter of puppies.

I got my period two weeks after I turned 10. Then a couple of months later, one December, the entire month went by and no period. I was so scared! All I knew was that if you didn't get your period, it meant you were pregnant. Being a virgin of course, I was scared out of my mind as to how it happened. For a while I was even believing I was either going to be the next Virgin Mary and give birth to the new savior or that I was carrying "the devil's" child. Being that my family wasn't religious, I kept thinking "Then why would God choose me?" and that only meant that it had to be the other option, I was going to give birth to the child of Satan! I was so paranoid and scared because I had seen The Omen before. I didn't want to tell my mom because I thought she wouldn't believe me that I was a virgin. Needless to say I had never been more relieved in my life when my period came the next month. Later on I finally got up the courage to ask why I skipped a month and then learned about stress and all the other factors that can mess up your cycle. Looking back now, I laugh at how stupid it was to think those things. But at 10, I was pretty convinced that I was pregnant by some divine conception.

i was told by my cousin when i was 6 that to get pregnant a boy had to pee in my belly button. she told me that her doctor told her so i believed it for a while.

I was a very naive child. When I first discovered it was possible to have a baby without being married, I was puzzled. My mother explained it thusly: "Sometimes a boy and girl or man and woman get too close before they are married, and accidentally make a baby." I swear I was at least eleven before I stopped fearing that I could become pregnant if one of my male classmates rubbed up against me too closely, for example, sitting on the bleachers at a crowded ballgame. See why it's important to be honest when kids ask questions?

I used to believe you could get pregnant by eating a whole jar of peanut butter. My mom couldn't figure out why I refused PB&J sandwiches for months on end! Needless to say, when I found out the truth, I didn't trust my babysitter anymore!