reproduction

My mom told me that every time a woman had a baby, she would grow a new belly button. I told her I didn't believe her because she had three kids and only one navel, and she said, "Are you sure? When's the last time you've seen my belly?" That stopped me in my tracks!

Jessica

I used to believe that 'girl' sperm were pink and 'boy' sperm were blue, so that if a pink sperm got to the lady's egg first the baby would be a girl etc. This was after a very colourful sex education film at school. I believed this until a worryingly advanced age.

Jo

When I was a kid I believed that God made babies on a conveyor belt. And when they were complete, God would poke each baby in the stomach as they were passing by and say, "you're done, you're done." And thats why we all have belly buttons.

Anon

When I was younger i was the only girl out of four brothers. Being that there was so many of us most of the time we all took a bath together. Well one day i saw something i never noticed before that my brothers all had a "pee pee" and i did not. I thought mine had feel off one day and started crying i even told my mom that i had lost my "pee pee" it was soo hurtful lol...than it got explained to me that what i had was normal because i was a girl lol...my brothers still think its funny to make fun of me and its been over 15 years lol

Anon

When I was really little I used to think that my mom gave birth to my dad and raised him. Then once he grew up they had all of us kids together. I didn't know how they did it though...

Anon

told a friend of mine that white mens sperm was white, black mens sperm was brown and oriental mens sperm was a kind of off green yellow colour.... she still believes it to this day.

Jabs

I used to believe that sex was a recently thought up invention, probably invented only a couple of years before I found out about it. I remember thinking "Phew, that's lucky, my generation will now be able to carry on the human race."

first kid on the block

I used to believe that my teenaged sister was telling the truth that my parents found me in the strawberry patch in our back yard. I remember looking at it very respectfully as a 4-year-old and thinking I had to tread carefully so as not to crush the plants, as I hunted for berries to eat on the sly. Strangely enough, it didn't disturb me to have my (jealous) sister telling me I didn't really belong in the family. I liked strawberries so much it seemed that a strawberry baby was much superior to a normally acquired infant. I felt quite satisfied to be me, and it made complete sense to me, because I REALLY liked strawberries.

Lisa

When I was little, I overheard my mother telling a female relative about her pregnancies. Apparantly, with my little sister her stomach was huge, and with my little brother, well, that pregnancy was just a big pain in the a**. From then on, I was convinced that girls came out of the belly button, and that boys came out of women's butts. I used to always wonder if any baby boys were born into the toilet by mistake, while the pregnant women were taking care of business. Weird.

anonymous

When I was pregnant, I was sitting one day having a nice cup of tea. My 3-year-old daughter came and stood by me and said, "You should't drink that!" Startled, I asked, "Why not?" "When it goes down, it'll burn the baby's head!" she said.

Joan Muir

I use to think if a man and woman made out she would become pregnant and then the baby would see through her belly button what the parents look like and become a morph of both of them..

Adriana

When my best friend was much younger she used to believe that all newborn babies were created in a factory (she didn't know about sex or pregnancy at this age). She thought that somewhere in the world there was a massive warehouse full of newly created babies and that couples wanting a baby would have to go there and choose one to buy and take home. She thought that all of the newborn babies could talk and that they had to try and persuade couples to take them home instead of one of the other babies.

Anon

i had a freind who believed that at a certain age you bought sperm in bags from woolworths.

Anon

i used believe that if someone had sex they would have a baby straight away

me

I thought my neighbor breastfed her baby because they were too poor to afford baby bottles. Maybe they were!

Kristen

I used to think that babies were made in a factory, and they get put in the hospital so they make it alive, because I noticed a room called Delivery, so I thought you went to the hospital to pick up your order!

Natski

As most children, I had trouble understanding where babies came from. My trouble, however, simply came in a misunderstanding of terms. For some reason, "born" sounded like "burned." ("Mommy, where was I burned?") Consequently, I was positive that children appeared from fire.

a Phoenix

When my mom was teaching me about sex she said about how the father puts his "seed" in the mother and I pictured like an actual seed like for a plant would come out of his penis and thought it sounded painful

Xenomorph

I used to believe that sperm were some kind of aerosol solution and that you could make someone pregnant by standing too close to them at the wrong time. Thank you Catholic School Sex-Ed........

Anon

Before I knew anything about sex and reproduction, I used to be amazed when someone looked like their father - I just thought that women got married and then automatically got pregnant - I had no idea that fathers had any part in this at all. I used to think "Gee, what a coincidence that some children just happen to look like the men their mother's are married to".

Luke