reproduction

When I was 3 my mom was pregnant with my brother. One night we were having dinner when she said: "Uh oh, I guess someone is arriving", meaning my brother, but I thought someone was actually coming at our place, so I stood up and went to open the door.

Marta

i used to believe, due to the expertise of another 2 nd grader, that by placing a penis on a nipple got u pregnant. isnt this hilarious. this was from 1956,57 etc. so wally beaver

babs

I used to believe that a baby's sex was determined by whether the sperm had a picture of a man or woman on it.

David E.

When I was a child I used to think that black women produced chocolate milk

Don

I used to believe you knew the sex of a baby (when born) by looking to see if they had hair or not. Girls if born with hair, boys if their born without hair.

Sandy

I remember the first time I discovered the back massager. I also remember looking at my stomach and thinking it had gotten a little bigger and that I was pregnant! Soon after of course I got it straighten out when I asked my mom where babies came from.

Sandy

when i was young, i was told that if a woman wanted to become pregnant she could get a needle to be. when the sex.ed lady at school told us the truth, it was a bit of a shock.

Anon

When my mother was expecting for the second time, when I was 5 years old, she told me that I was going to have a little sister (which she couldn't have known). Because I didn't know how babies came into the world, I looked towards the door, expecting another little girl to walk in.

"velveire"

When I was young I didn't know about amniotic sacs or mucus plugs or all that other fancy stuff that keeps the baby inside the womb. What I was told, was that you simply had to push the baby out. I used to think that if you touched a pregnant woman's stomach, it would be considered "pushing" her baby out, and it would come tumbling right out! I was always afraid to touch my mom when she was pregnant with my younger sister for fear of a miscarriage.

Jenny

i thought kids were born by planting a seed in a magical flawer and waiting for 10 mounths for it to grow. in the 10 mounths the mother will carry the flower where ever she goes until it's old enough to walk.

I'm a stupid kid

i used to believe girls laid eggs

Bill

When I was very young, another little boy that I was playing with, told me that girls had teeth "down there". Of course I believed him, and therefore when I became a teen, I was afraid of becoming intimate with girls. Later on I finally realized this wasn't true, but now I'm gay.

Larry

I used to think that all animals were compatible with each other, so if you somehow managed to mate with a dog you would have puppies! I always fantasized ways that I could have baby panthers, because that would have been so cool..

Anon

Everyone always says that my sister takes after my mom, and I take after my dad. So my parents used to tell me that my mom had my sister, and my dad had me! It made perfect sense, too, because it seemed like he was still carrying some weight from the pregnancy!

Samantha from California

I used to believe that women's vaginas were located on the front of their pelvis and that a man could penetrate, and have sex, just by walking forward into her and then thrusting. I didn't know that the vagina opening was actually between the legs. Then, I believed that a man impregnated a woman by urinating into her vagina and that the foam one sees while peeing was actually sperm.

DevilPaul

My Dad always used to refer to babies coming from " The Gooseberry patch"

I caught myself on many occasions looking under neath our gooseberry plant for babies.

Hellybell

When I was a pre-teen my mother gave me the "talk" about the birds and the bees by reading to me a book by Dr. James Dobson, a minister. He explained that babies were made by a husband and a wife that cared very much for each other by lying down together in a bed, very close until they feel a tingling sensation. I believe that for such a long time...he was right about the beginning and then end, but he left out how fun it was to get from point A to point B! That is a book that I will never get my daughters!

Kerry E.

To this day, I have no idea where this particular belief of mine came from, except that it was a sudden theory that came to me when I was sitting in the playground in 3rd grade. There was a girl whose older sister had told her what sex was and the girl was so excited that she knew a "secret," so she refused to tell any of us what it was.

So, of course, I was mystified and I sat in the playground for twenty minutes, trying to figure it out. Somehow I came to this conclusion:

Sex was when a man and a woman went to a restuarant and had a tea party, just the two of them. The girl would giggle a lot and the guy had to smile for one hour straight and then, when things went well, they got to drink very delicious tea. And then, -poof-, they'd look under the table and there'd be a small child there.

John T

Making Babies

I was the oldest of two children in my family. When I was four I was told that my mom and new brother were coming home from the hospital. So I thought that's where babies were made. I thought it was done in an operating room with a doctor supervising the whole procedure. When I was around eight I finally realized this wasn't so but I did ask my Mother one question, " Mommy,
does it feel good when you make a baby?"
She let out a little giggle and said "why yes it does".

Denise