getting pregnant

I used to think that from petting and cuddling my cat, I would get pregnant and have kittens. This scared me quite badly, and I'd often avoid my cat.

Kitten Lady

When I was little my friend and I were playing barbies and she had one of them have a baby, but she wasn't married. Since, being young I thought you HAD to be married to have a kid. I was confused and asked my mom if you had to and she said no. So i formed this strange belief that you can adopt a baby in your stomach.

Anon

Thanks to sex scenes in under 18 movies, I started believing that ladies get pregnant when they sleep with guy embracing her in his arms, and when their sweats mix together. This was because both are shown tired and sweating after sex. It didn't take me much time to device my own idea of switching the fans off for bearing a child. I literally used to avoid sleeping beside any girl fearing the results, if we touch with sweat on our hand, even if due to humid climate.

knowledge.. late better than never

When I was little I thought to have a baby a mother swallowed an egg and then it grew in her stomach until she had birth. I still have know idea where this idea came from.

Claudia

Up until I was thirteen, when my mom gave me "The Talk" with the medical book, I thought a mom got pregnant by a dad feeding her his sperm with a spoon and then a baby would grow in the mom's stomach.

Lynda

When I was six I thought that mothers already had babies inside them. I knew where they came from, that women had to give birth, but I thought that when the woman chose when to "have" it, like, get pregnant with it. I was not really that far off, when you think about it...

Talyn M.

I used to think that babies were made when a male's and female's bellybutton touched each other.

Anon

When I was younger I used to believe that women just magically got pregnant after getting married.

Anon

When I was about three, I was convinced that men gave birth to boys and women gave birth to girls. My mom explained the sex and reproduction thing over and over, but it just didn't click. Then the woman across the street gave birth to a boy, and I was just baffled. (It still didn't quite click yet.)

Becky

When I was nine I learned about sex for the first time. I was told that sex was how babies were made and that it involved a man and a woman having a "special cuddle" together, but I didn't find out the details for years to come. Because of this, I assumed that sex consisted of a man and a woman holding hands and waiting until a baby was created.

Anon

I used to believe that women got pregnant from rubbing her underwear on a man's underwear.

Anon

I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.

Laura

My mum had a friend who was brought up on a farm, ans she led quite a sheltered life.She believed that if you "courted" a boy for 9 months you would automatically become pregant. Subsequently she finished with all her boyfriends after 8 and a half months...she still single now at the age of 66!

TT

Until I was fourteen years old and in grade nine, I believed home pregnancy tests worked the same way as oral thermometers (you put it under your tongue and wait a few minutes, and then it tells you if you're pregnant or not). Imagine my shock when I was hanging out in the music room one day, and I found out the truth by overhearing some of my older friends talking about home pregnancy tests, lol.

Anon

I used to think that if you wished hard enough you'd become pregnant (thats what my mum told me!). I also thought you had to rub stomachs with someone to get pregnant

Anon

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?

Kim

I have three younger sisters, so by the time I was six, I knew that babies came from my mom's belly. What I didn't know was how they got there. Of course, I asked my trusty old dad. He told me that the doctor calls women and then they're pregnant. For a long time after, I was very afraid that the doctor would call me!

ocean

I was an only child who always wanted a brother or sister. When I was around 8 years old, an older friend told me that the way to tell if my mother was going to have a baby was to look under her bed, and it there was dust under there, that meant that my mother was pregnant. I watched the dust accumulate under my parent's bed for a couple of years and kept watching to see if my mother's tummy was growing before I found out that it wasn't true!

Karen

When my family went to Queensland for a holiday, we went into this museum and there were these wierd statues there. I think I touched one of them.
We went into another room, and there was a big screen playing movies about various things in the museum. It mentioned something about those statues I'd seen, and it was showing how all these people who touched the statues got pregnant afterwards.
I then became worried that I'd get pregnant.
I was 11 years old at the time.

Sarah

Whwn I was like 8 I used to believe woman just got pregnant randomly.

Anon