getting pregnant

When was younger, i belived that getting pregnant was not a choice, that one day you just woke up in the middle of the night with a big belly and yelled,"Oh no, my water broke!" and then your husband would rush you to the hospital. And if you were lucky enough to know you were pregnant in advance you could take a girl pill or a boy pill to determine the gender. And when I was very very young and had jsut found out about babies, my mom had told me that they came oput of your tummy.I remeber having this vision of someones big belly hatching open like a chicken egg and a feathery baby climbling out...i was a weird one.

steph

I used to believe that pregnant women were not really pregnant. My dad always told me not to eat the black watermelon seeds cuz if i did i would grow a watermelon in my tummy. One day we were at the mall and a very pregnant walked by and my dad said to me "See, she ate a watermelon seed." That scared me out of eating watermelon seeds to this day.

Nin

Me and my friend that i grew up with believe the first child came with the marriage and every child after that you had to have sex with. so we would argue whether we were created by sex or we were teh auto marriage child.

J

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.

Andrea

I asked my step sister one day what would happen if you ate a watermelon seed. She told me I'd get pregnant and a baby would grow inside me. When I didn't believe her, she said, "how do you think I got my kids?" I was too young to understand what sex was. I believed her till I ate one to see if it was true, because I wanted a baby of my own.

Nicci

When I was little my Mum told me that a man and woman had to press there belly buttons together in order to make a baby. I told all my friends at school, and because no one told them anything different thats what we all believed.

Mel

When I was younger I used to think that the way people got pregnant was because they got a tiny tiny baby, like from a ceral box, and ate them and then the baby grew bigger inside the womans stomach 'til it was ready and it came out of their belly button.

Kellogg's makes babies!

My son believed for the longest time that the doctor put my daughter in my tummy when I was pregnant. He went around telling everyone that her dad was the doctor, not my husband

Anon

When i was little i used to think that u got pregnant from period pads. So if my mom ever needed me to grab one for her i would pick it up with the tip of fingers run to her as fast as i could and then throw it really fast.

Anon

I used to believe that when a man and a woman were married, they would just ask God for a baby, and one would come out of the mother's stomach nine months later. One day I was playing house with my friend and we were pretending to be married so I asked God for a baby. I was terrified that I might be pregnant for months afterwards.

Virgin Mary

When I was a child, I had the "where do babies come from" talk explained as "a man gives a woman his seed...." Being rather literal minded, I asked my elder brother (the font of all knowledge, in my pre-school mind) what kind of seeds mom meant. He replied "poppy seeds." For many years afterwards I refused to eat poppy cookies or cake because I was afraid I'd get pregnant. I must have been in my late teens before the connection really dissolved.

Alyxx

I used to think it took three days to get a baby. My mom told me one day that she was pregnant, I figured the next day she would be "fat" with the baby and the day after that the baby would arrive! lol I had no clue it takes nine months!

Ivana

I used to think that you got babies when a man licked a woman's privates. So When a few boys in my class (In fifth grade) Were making fun of how women had to deal with the pain of giving birth and having periods and such, I told them that they's have to do something EVEN WORSE. I figured it out that summer XD

Venti V.

While learning about the digestive system in school, I asked my mother how she could eat with my twin sister and me in her stomach!

Molly

When I first asked about the Facts of Life, my mother told me something evasive about how they had really wanted a baby and so they got one. So for a while I thought that you could only have a baby if you were married, and that what you had to do was pray a lot and if you wanted one enough God would make you pregnant. Ah, the idealism of youth.

Dahne

When I was little, I used to think that a man impregnated the woman by sticking his penis into her vagina and then peeing into her.

Anon

Once while hiking with my dad, I had to go to the bathroom, and he told me to go behind a tree. I asked if it would hurt the tree and he said no, it's actually good for the tree and will fertilize it to help it grow. Later I learned that woman became pregnant when the father fertilizes her, and assumed that he did this by urinating inside her.

Mike

I used to think that in order to have a baby two people needed to kiss for 15 minutes with taking a breath.

Anon

I remember when i was little...when those commercials would come on for like headache medicine and stuff...when it says "do not use if you are or may become pregnant" and i used to tell my parents that they were being stupid for saying that becuase anyone could become pregnant so no one would want to take the medicine...i used to beleive that anyone (even guys) could just get pregant out of no where

Lauren

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".

Anon