I thought they sort of just…like, grew, I guess. I didn’t put much thought into my theory XD I knew about pregnancy early on but no, of course, what leads to pregnancy. So, I thought the baby was sort of like a plant and people just sort of appeared I think XD
my parents told me storks came and dropped off babies but I thought that was made up by cartoons so :/ I borrowed my oldest sister’s health class textbook.
I never had time to really wonder and make something up in my head because storks didnt make any sense to me so I immediately went “hmmm birds that doesnt make sense” to “ah yes now I know about sex” in the span of like 5 days. I think I even had my big sister like explain it to me because her health textbook was pretty vague.
I knew they came from people. I had a babysitter who got pregnant when I was 3/4ish and she straight up told my sister and I there was a baby in her stomach when she showed up all swollen one day.
I couldn’t figure out how the baby got in her stomach until years later though.
I was taught they were developed in the moms belly after doing things with a man, yeah I was taught immediately lol, but I also thought we could buy babies so I often asked my mom to buy me a sister haha
I genuinely believed that you just got pregnant randomly when you got older, so I was petrified of the idea of being pregnant bc I thought I didn’t have a choice when it happened and my body would just decide. When I learned I did, in fact, have a choice, it was like my world shattered XD
Obviously that’s true, but I didn’t understand the significance of the question. I had only heard other kids ask that on TV without realizing what I was asking. Later, when introduced to the concept of sex leading to pregnancy I was like “Oh.”. Once I had that figured out, I thought they just came out of the butt. Wasn’t until my friends laughed at me on the phone when I casually mentioned it that I had the full picture.
I thought it was eggs like chickens, but instead of birthing outside, they hatched inside the mother and grew a little bit in there. I was very disappointed when I found out the truth
Before I knew better, I thought babies were like the endless queso at Chili’s—eat too much, and one just shows up inside you as a penalty. Like some cruel food poisoning from all those cheesy dips you can’t stop ordering. No magic or love, just a midnight snack gone horribly wrong. Pregnancy was basically the universe’s way of saying, “You abused the chips, now suffer.
I played sims 4 on an ipad before i got the talk and when i pressed the woo-hoo option when i tried to get my sim to get with someone or if they had someone,it would just show this animation/picture of a pulsating silhouette of two figures under the sheets in a heart shaped light with kissing noises, giggling and music. Now, my young brain processed that as “Kissing a lot in the dark = baby in the stomach”.
I kind of knew before the talk when i’d watch animals mating rituals out of curiosity and eventually got the gist of it.
I always knew they came from moms. I never believed in the stork claim, but I think my parents just didn’t tell me and always told me they came from moms belly. But I always thought it was heavy makeout sessions. Ironically, I knew the idea of sex was a thing. But it still didn’t correlate that sex leads to babies, just heavy makeout.
I thought they came from dancing!!! Hear me out, watched too many bollywood movies and when guy meets girl they have a song of their own and dance to it and boom cut to them having a baby. I always thought if id dance with a guy i like, il have one!!
I remember as a kid when I was told that Chinese girls vaginas where sideways I’m surprised we even function right as adults with just how weirdly we are tought as children
Sears catalog – seriously. I was 3 or 4 and pleaded with my parents to get a baby sister for me. Sadly it didn’t happen, now I feel badly as I still don’t know why they didn’t have another child.
Babies came out of the butt, but only from a woman married to a man. Which is why my aunt who lived with her female “roommate” in the 80s didn’t have kids.
I thought a baby just kinda spawned in there lol. I asked my boyfriend this question about a month ago and he said he used to think that at a wedding, the baby spawned when the couple had their kiss lol.
I always knew where babies came from… my mom had the talk with us when we were very little. I think it’s a great idea, and I’m going to do that with my kids – not only is it good for kids to learn about their bodies, and it’s before things get embarrassing and awkward… but later I mom told me a big reason she did it was if we were ever sexually assaulted we could explain what happened.
I honestly don’t know what I thought before when I was 8, I was on a treehouse with two friends and they explained it to me very very explicitly and I was kinda really disgusted by my parents😭
I put zero thought into it. I had heard of sex but I had no idea what it was, had no idea babies came from it and would just call it “s-e-x” like it was a bad word, lol. Didn’t know why it was a bad word, just knew it was.
I have probably the weirdest one, i thought that when people get so old they pop them up like a balloon and they shrink to became babies (probably cause i never saw a pregnant women in that age or never noticed i probably thought she is just overweight)
I thought it happened when mommies and daddies kissed a lot. And having grown up in a very conservative home, I thought you got pregnant faster if you were married.
I thought they just “happened”, like puberty. I became further convinced of this because every time my parents learned of someone being pregnant, it was surprising to them.
I dont remember what I thought but kids at school would say that babies came out of their mom’s boobs, which explained why boobs got so large during pregnancy. I dont think i ever actually believed it though, but lots of kids did.
We were given the excellent, very descriptive “How Babies Are Made” book when I was 4 and my sister was 6. We were asking, mom told us. The book explained more. We had more Qs, mom gave more answers.
Until then, we had been told moms and dads loved each other so much that they kissed and hugged and wished for a baby. Then, if they were very lucky, they got one!
as a little girl i had assumed at some point in EVERY womans life you just eventually fell pregnant, and that fucking terrified me because I hated the idea of babies 😂 i remember being so concerned for my very single aunt because she was around the normal pregnant lady age(30s) in my simple kid brain
We were watching Lassie on TV and she showed up with puppies. Brother and I probably 6 and 8 yrs. old figured out Lassie scratched her stomach open on a rock and out came the pups. Our parents were sitting there and said nothing. We didn’t think about the wound or how she would avoid infection.
Well. As a child I was told 2 people need to marry and pray to have a baby. Then when I grew up I thought if u kiss and go under the sheets, you get a baby.. omg. And then I was told they need to have sex to have a baby. At that time, I thought sex was pumping twice and magically u have a baby. (This last thought was when I was 25)
Hm. Come to think of it, I honestly have no idea what I thiught. That feels a little weird.
I got caught in the umbilical cord during birth and was born by emergency c-section. I was very aware of that aspect well before it ever occurred to me to wonder about what came before that!
There are a lot of pictures of me still all bloody and I think still attached. Apparently someone correctly guessed that using his camera would keep my Dad from fainting. I’m old enough that his reaction has always been attributed to ‘Nam flashbacks.
I always knew about C-sections, so I figured that every baby was born via C-section. I didn’t know about the uterus or fertilization, and I never questioned how women got pregnant.
I knew mommy’s got pregnant for as far back as I have memories, but the methodology of how that happened was a mystery to me. My parents divorced when I was 3, and I hardly have any memories of my birth father, so it never really occurred to me that a man was a necessary piece of the equation. I guess I never really thought about it too much, I knew it was something people wanted sometimes, and that it happened accidentally sometimes, but I always thought that it kind of just, happened when someone wanted a baby.
I think I was about 7 when I first asked my mom what sex was, I must have heard it from someone at school, I don’t even remember. She explained the very basic mechanics of it, but not any side effects of it. I thought it made sense because I obviously knew boys and girls had different parts and it made sense that they were supposed to go together, but I still didn’t make the connection that babies came from that process.
I think it took another year or two for the birds and the bees to finally come together for me. I specifically remember being in 4th grade and explaining it to a friend I had made that year, so sometime before that I either made the connection or someone told me or something. This would have been in the mid 90s so I don’t think I would have had the capacity to look it up myself yet.
I weirdly did not think about it. I knew they grew inside a mom and it was seperate than a normal stomach, but I just left it at that.
Considering I was a veey curious child and questioned literally everything else to an unbearable degree, it is strange I did not question this. I think probably because growing up, most of my relatives who got pregnant ended up losing it. So I overheard a lot about still births and miscarriages and visited graves for cousins I didn’t even know existed. I also knew I was a very premature emergency C-Section and that both me and my mom almost died ourselves. So I think kid me just associated pregnancy with bad things and death and never wanted to know more
I was born into a super Christian household, so I was told when a couple gets married, the wedding kiss is holy and basically god spawns a baby in the woman
I always knew that they “came out of mommy’s tummy” (was never clear exactly how) but my first belief was that it was something that just happened automatically shortly after getting married.
But because I was I very inquisitive little kid and asked a lot of questions about things I’d seen insects doing, I found out that daddies had to attach themselves to mommies and transmit special cells to them in order for babies to be made. But since I had no sisters and had never seen any little girls naked I didn’t know about the different body parts. So I deduced that some belly buttons were innies and some were outies because they needed to fit together to make babies. So if you wanted to have babies you needed to marry someone who had the opposite belly button type from you. So between then and when I finally learned the truth about anatomy a couple of years later, I called belly buttons “breeding buttons”.
I never even had time to think about it. Mom got me a comic book style sex ed book narrated by a bird and a bee when I turned like 5 or 6. I read it on my own and it didn’t leave me with any questions about it.
I actually knew about egg and sperm cells wayyy before I knew about where they are in the body (first or second grade, maybe earlier), so I just thought a singular sperm cell would cross over during a kiss (but only if the father wills it to), it’d go inside the egg cell, and a baby would start to grow in an uknown area somewhere in the mother’s abdomen.
I thought God just magically gave it to you, I had no idea that a process is required for that to happen, I remember praying to God to not give me a baby in my stomach, i really did.
I thought babies were just store bought and put together like Ikea furniture.😭In my mind, a baby’s parents got to pick out their features separately at a store and they came home to make them to their liking. This was because when I asked my parents where I came from, they told me they “made” me. I imagined them putting me together just like the couch they had just assembled.
I grew up in a very Muslim household but also had far to much access to the internet so I knew sex was a thing quite young but also thought that Muslim people didn’t have it and that god just decided when…. Or like if he thought you deserved a child you’d get pregnant
Found out when I was like 13 that no in fact everyone had sex through a dictionary when all the boys where giggling over it, pretty sure I tried to convince them they where wrong as well
I thought God would randomly make a woman pregnant after she got married lol. Not much logic to it, but when you’re raised with religion, anything is possible.
I had a younger sibling born shortly after me so I was always aware of the pregnancy thing, but how one got pregnant wasn’t explained.
At the time I thought only married people had babies together, so I think I just decided that there must be some secret step in a wedding ritual that “switched on” the baby-generating power in the wife. I thought maybe like a spell or a special drink or something, that told the wife’s body that she’s married and can now be pregnant.
I thought a guy and a girl just laid on eachother stiffly and then kissed once LMAO. Thankfully when I was like 5-6 my mom got me a birds and the bees book that explained everything. Never had the talk, just the books. My teachers were definitely concerned when I wrote “book reports “ on that book tho
I don’t remember not knowing that a woman carried a baby in her body before giving birth to it.
I do remember thinking that once you were married, conception happened spontaneously. I don’t know why I thought marriage vows were directly responsible for a biological process, but it made sense until age 10.
I walked in on my mom changing and asked why she had a giant scar on her belly. Keep in mind this was the vertical one they used back in the 80’s. She didn’t hesitate to inform me of my origins. Convincing the kids at school that they didn’t have an avian origin was another topic all together. Who knew 5-6 year olds could have an existential crisis.
I knew they came out of the mother’s womb after growing in there.
But I thought the priest said magic words at the wedding that started the whole process. And by “trying”, I was not so sure what they meant exactly.
And that single motherhood happened when the magic words struck the wrong person. Hence at a very young age, I did play “home for single mothers” with some of my dolls a few times.
Yes, I had a big imagination. And a big heart. I hope I still do.
I was told the exact mechanism around age 9. I knew all other aspects of growing up and puberty and the sort- though I would turn out to be a late bloomer, so all but one of my classmates went through it before I did.
Comprehensive sex education is an absolute must. And it needs to start young.
Found it a pretty weird way . You see , i discovered porn on yt when i was in 1st grade , but never thought babies come from sex . Then came to know about sperm and eggs from a Bollywood movie , then thought that when a guy kisses a girl , sperm cells transfer from his saliva in girls body . But I always knew i was wrong coz I learnt about sex shortly after , but still didn’t know how sperms actually came in female body . I used to wonder if men pee in the vagina or something like that , then i came in 8th grade , and from my textbook i found out that we ejaculate in females and all that shit . So , yeah , that was it
I don’t know, my parents weren’t exactly euphemistic about it. They did leave out some details until I was older but I did know babies grew in the mom and came out the vagina for as long as I can remember.
I knew they came from a mom, and I knew they came from “sex” when the sperm finds an egg, but for all the biological diagrams, I didn’t have any actual idea what “sex” was.
I remember my complete shock and disbelief when I found out the penis went inside the vagina… I thought it was like a water gun or something.
Stork broght them and let them slide down the chimney. When my mom was pregnant with my younger sibling, I kept checking the fireplace. Then winter came and my parents started using the fireplace…stressed me out, thinking they’ll going to burn the baby.
I was born through c section I just thought you had to cut the stomach and a baby would come out. We played a lot of doctor. Or when we had zero clue, we always found abanonded babies some where 😂
I dont remember not knowing I always knew where they came from and denied the stork bs from day one it didnt make sense to me we grew up with animals and there isn’t any hiding from that sight 🤣
I never thought about it. I was too busy thinking about crap like “am I the only person with consciousness and everyone else is fake and only here to convince me “reality” is real?” And “do we all see color the same? If we looked at the same cup do we both see green or am I seeing green and you’re seeing purple?” Also a bit of “is there any way I could focus really hard and shut off my senses, change reality while its not being observed, then focus back on reality and cement my changes?” I was a very weird kid with no friends.
My father was and still is terrified to even hear the word sex so i got a whopper of a lie. He said they asked god for a baby and then he went out into the woods behind the house and found me by a stump. He said a stork left me there. Now i dont believe in storks or god. way to go pops!
I thought there was a store, and it kinda looked like that isle with all the buzz light-years on it from toy story. And every box was either pink or blue
I thought sex was a blowjob, because you’d swallow and the sperm would go to your tummy and pregnant ladies always had babies in their tummies. Then I assumed that you pooped them out.
Then I did a first aid course when I was 10, and the manual had a section on birth, with illustrations and diagrams.
I asked too much when I was about 4 and my mother was pregnant with my younger brother. By the time she started evading I’d got to the point where she told me that babies came from the mother’s tummy. I asked if there was a third hole, and she evaded. And I never forgot that evasion. It set the standard for things I couldn’t ask my mother. At 7 Sonya Whaley showed me the whole setup and explained what she knew of it. I asked her if she thought they were supposed to fit together. She didn’t know how that would work, and neither of us had any interest in trying that out. We both had our answers and our curiosity was satisfied. I never even though about it more until I was in my teens and wondered where she went when we both moved away. She was my best friend’s twin and set my standard for what I like in girls. Long dark hair and sharp as a tack.
It just happened, like you wanted a baby and just like that, you have a baby. I was young when my sister had her first and always wondered how it happened, especially because her boyfriend was never around.
I thought you’d press the belly button and it’d come out on a little tray. My thinking was that if it’s called a belly ‘button’ something must happen when you press it! I also distinctly remember being horrified upon learning that babies are born without clothes. Up until then, about the age of 6, I was convinced that while growing in the belly, the baby grew itself a baby grow
I literally thought women just popped up pregnant randomly in their life without a man. I just thought at some point in their life the universe would just decide it’s time to be pregnant. I was always worried when I was little because I was like “what if the universe decides I don’t get to be pregnant?” As for how I actually thought they were born, I just thought they came out of the belly button.
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I thought they sort of just…like, grew, I guess. I didn’t put much thought into my theory XD I knew about pregnancy early on but no, of course, what leads to pregnancy. So, I thought the baby was sort of like a plant and people just sort of appeared I think XD
I always knew, grew up in a no bs house
I thought they came from your belly button, like it unscrewed and a baby popped out
my parents told me storks came and dropped off babies but I thought that was made up by cartoons so :/ I borrowed my oldest sister’s health class textbook.
I never had time to really wonder and make something up in my head because storks didnt make any sense to me so I immediately went “hmmm birds that doesnt make sense” to “ah yes now I know about sex” in the span of like 5 days. I think I even had my big sister like explain it to me because her health textbook was pretty vague.
so when mommy and daddy wanted a baby , god put a tiny seed in mommy’s tummy and it grew into a baby 🙄🏃🏻♀️
I knew it came from a mom but I figured it happened when you kissed too much.
I thought they just “appeared.” I was a sharp one, I know.
I knew they came from people. I had a babysitter who got pregnant when I was 3/4ish and she straight up told my sister and I there was a baby in her stomach when she showed up all swollen one day.
I couldn’t figure out how the baby got in her stomach until years later though.
I learned when I was little little. Like 4. I can’t remember what I thought prior.
They spawned on the bed > they got delivered on the doorstep > you picked them up from the hospital > they spawn in mothers’ womb after marriage.
After going through all these stages, i now finally know the real truth that babies are grown on trees.
I was told my mom’s tummy and i just believed that.
Stork
The stork
I honestly don’t remember ever not knowing where babies came from
I was taught they were developed in the moms belly after doing things with a man, yeah I was taught immediately lol, but I also thought we could buy babies so I often asked my mom to buy me a sister haha
I genuinely believed that you just got pregnant randomly when you got older, so I was petrified of the idea of being pregnant bc I thought I didn’t have a choice when it happened and my body would just decide. When I learned I did, in fact, have a choice, it was like my world shattered XD
From like kissing/hugging not actual sex tho
My mom said they come from the stomach.
Obviously that’s true, but I didn’t understand the significance of the question. I had only heard other kids ask that on TV without realizing what I was asking. Later, when introduced to the concept of sex leading to pregnancy I was like “Oh.”. Once I had that figured out, I thought they just came out of the butt. Wasn’t until my friends laughed at me on the phone when I casually mentioned it that I had the full picture.
I thought it was eggs like chickens, but instead of birthing outside, they hatched inside the mother and grew a little bit in there. I was very disappointed when I found out the truth
From the hospital. My Italian grandmother had all her babies at home. My aunts thought the doctor brought the babies in his bag.
I thought the stork came and cast a spell on the mom to make her stomach grow until the stork came back to take the baby out
Before I knew better, I thought babies were like the endless queso at Chili’s—eat too much, and one just shows up inside you as a penalty. Like some cruel food poisoning from all those cheesy dips you can’t stop ordering. No magic or love, just a midnight snack gone horribly wrong. Pregnancy was basically the universe’s way of saying, “You abused the chips, now suffer.
i used to think that only if a husband and wife REEALLLYYY loved each other, then she’d suddenly get pregnant 🤷♀️
I played sims 4 on an ipad before i got the talk and when i pressed the woo-hoo option when i tried to get my sim to get with someone or if they had someone,it would just show this animation/picture of a pulsating silhouette of two figures under the sheets in a heart shaped light with kissing noises, giggling and music. Now, my young brain processed that as “Kissing a lot in the dark = baby in the stomach”.
I kind of knew before the talk when i’d watch animals mating rituals out of curiosity and eventually got the gist of it.
I always knew they came from moms. I never believed in the stork claim, but I think my parents just didn’t tell me and always told me they came from moms belly. But I always thought it was heavy makeout sessions. Ironically, I knew the idea of sex was a thing. But it still didn’t correlate that sex leads to babies, just heavy makeout.
They come from the stork……right?
I thought they came from dancing!!! Hear me out, watched too many bollywood movies and when guy meets girl they have a song of their own and dance to it and boom cut to them having a baby. I always thought if id dance with a guy i like, il have one!!
I always knew where they grew and the two ways they could come out.. I just always assumed it just happened like magic.
I remember as a kid when I was told that Chinese girls vaginas where sideways I’m surprised we even function right as adults with just how weirdly we are tought as children
Shoebill stork.
Sears catalog – seriously. I was 3 or 4 and pleaded with my parents to get a baby sister for me. Sadly it didn’t happen, now I feel badly as I still don’t know why they didn’t have another child.
Stomach.
I thought it was something that just happened automatically.
I knew that the sperm fertilized the egg but I thought it jumped from the man’s belly button into the woman’s!
I didn’t know about sex so I just thought u lie in bed with a woman and a baby was made
No clue. It had something to do with a boy and a girl and kissing to some extent is all I knew and cared
Babies came out of the butt, but only from a woman married to a man. Which is why my aunt who lived with her female “roommate” in the 80s didn’t have kids.
A hospital
I thought a baby just kinda spawned in there lol. I asked my boyfriend this question about a month ago and he said he used to think that at a wedding, the baby spawned when the couple had their kiss lol.
I always knew where babies came from… my mom had the talk with us when we were very little. I think it’s a great idea, and I’m going to do that with my kids – not only is it good for kids to learn about their bodies, and it’s before things get embarrassing and awkward… but later I mom told me a big reason she did it was if we were ever sexually assaulted we could explain what happened.
I thought they came from the stomach.
I watched animal planet instead of cartoons as a toddler … I always kinda had a guess
My parents showed me the video of me emerging from my moms vagina before I even gave thought to where babies came from, so I just been knowin’
I knew that it came from women but thought that once they got to a certain age the baby would just come out
The hospital
I honestly don’t know what I thought before when I was 8, I was on a treehouse with two friends and they explained it to me very very explicitly and I was kinda really disgusted by my parents😭
I put zero thought into it. I had heard of sex but I had no idea what it was, had no idea babies came from it and would just call it “s-e-x” like it was a bad word, lol. Didn’t know why it was a bad word, just knew it was.
Gotta be honest, I never gave it any thought. Just goes to show how much I’ve never cared about having children.😅
There are rows of seeds with our baby photos on them and when the time is right, God will plant the seed in our child-bearing parent.
You take medicine to bring kid
Storks
I have probably the weirdest one, i thought that when people get so old they pop them up like a balloon and they shrink to became babies (probably cause i never saw a pregnant women in that age or never noticed i probably thought she is just overweight)
I don’t remember giving it any thought
I never thought about it, I was the youngest so… but I could tell you where I wanted my brother to go!
My mom told me they got me off the clearance section at Walmart.
I thought it happened when mommies and daddies kissed a lot. And having grown up in a very conservative home, I thought you got pregnant faster if you were married.
I thought they just “happened”, like puberty. I became further convinced of this because every time my parents learned of someone being pregnant, it was surprising to them.
I dead ass thought the FedEx dropped em off
I dont remember what I thought but kids at school would say that babies came out of their mom’s boobs, which explained why boobs got so large during pregnancy. I dont think i ever actually believed it though, but lots of kids did.
We were given the excellent, very descriptive “How Babies Are Made” book when I was 4 and my sister was 6. We were asking, mom told us. The book explained more. We had more Qs, mom gave more answers.
Until then, we had been told moms and dads loved each other so much that they kissed and hugged and wished for a baby. Then, if they were very lucky, they got one!
Ive know for a while because I saw two bugs doing it and my mom had to explain, but before that I didn’t really care enough
Didn’t really think about it until I learned the truth. Those god damn storks. They’re such hard workers!
I honestly never had any desire to know. They are just there. I didn’t wonder where they came from or how.
Jesus
Watermelon seeds
God sent them
I knew they came from something called sex, but didn’t know what sex actually entailed
I didn’t have a clue how pregnancy began but figured surgery got the baby out.
I thought babies were made of themselves in the womb until they were born.
From bushes duhhhhh, that’s why we call it bush babies
“You pray to Mary and then she will put the baby in your tummy 😇”
I tested this this as a skeptical child and it didn’t work, thus my agnosticism began to take root at a very young age.
I did not know and I did NOT!! care lmao
as a little girl i had assumed at some point in EVERY womans life you just eventually fell pregnant, and that fucking terrified me because I hated the idea of babies 😂 i remember being so concerned for my very single aunt because she was around the normal pregnant lady age(30s) in my simple kid brain
We were watching Lassie on TV and she showed up with puppies. Brother and I probably 6 and 8 yrs. old figured out Lassie scratched her stomach open on a rock and out came the pups. Our parents were sitting there and said nothing. We didn’t think about the wound or how she would avoid infection.
Well. As a child I was told 2 people need to marry and pray to have a baby. Then when I grew up I thought if u kiss and go under the sheets, you get a baby.. omg. And then I was told they need to have sex to have a baby. At that time, I thought sex was pumping twice and magically u have a baby. (This last thought was when I was 25)
Yes, I was too innocent.
I didn’t spend any time thinking about it as a kid. Media at the time promoted they were delivered by storks.
First version was a stork. How or why one showed up wasn’t mentioned lol just that they drop off babies to couples.
I thought babies only grew after two people got married and slept together.
I knew they came from pregnant women but did not know how they were created. I was 10 when I found out it was intercourse and not god.
Hm. Come to think of it, I honestly have no idea what I thiught. That feels a little weird.
I got caught in the umbilical cord during birth and was born by emergency c-section. I was very aware of that aspect well before it ever occurred to me to wonder about what came before that!
There are a lot of pictures of me still all bloody and I think still attached. Apparently someone correctly guessed that using his camera would keep my Dad from fainting. I’m old enough that his reaction has always been attributed to ‘Nam flashbacks.
I always knew about C-sections, so I figured that every baby was born via C-section. I didn’t know about the uterus or fertilization, and I never questioned how women got pregnant.
They spawn in after marriage, just kinda pop in when enough time has passed
I don’t believe I ever once thought about that, or cared
I knew mommy’s got pregnant for as far back as I have memories, but the methodology of how that happened was a mystery to me. My parents divorced when I was 3, and I hardly have any memories of my birth father, so it never really occurred to me that a man was a necessary piece of the equation. I guess I never really thought about it too much, I knew it was something people wanted sometimes, and that it happened accidentally sometimes, but I always thought that it kind of just, happened when someone wanted a baby.
I think I was about 7 when I first asked my mom what sex was, I must have heard it from someone at school, I don’t even remember. She explained the very basic mechanics of it, but not any side effects of it. I thought it made sense because I obviously knew boys and girls had different parts and it made sense that they were supposed to go together, but I still didn’t make the connection that babies came from that process.
I think it took another year or two for the birds and the bees to finally come together for me. I specifically remember being in 4th grade and explaining it to a friend I had made that year, so sometime before that I either made the connection or someone told me or something. This would have been in the mid 90s so I don’t think I would have had the capacity to look it up myself yet.
Belly button!! In fact, there’s s little folded piece of skin inside my navel that looks like a tiny little butt and I thought that was my baby!!
I knew as soon as I asked my mom why a woman was so fat. I was really young and fairly observant.
Lol when I was two I watched chicks hatching at my great-grandmother’s farm, and was convinced babies came from eggs.
Coming from a Christian household, I thought God just decided to make a woman pregnant and would always pray that he wouldn’t make me pregnant 😅
I had a friend tell me when I was little that his mom and dad laid on top of each other naked. I said “get outta here”
I weirdly did not think about it. I knew they grew inside a mom and it was seperate than a normal stomach, but I just left it at that.
Considering I was a veey curious child and questioned literally everything else to an unbearable degree, it is strange I did not question this. I think probably because growing up, most of my relatives who got pregnant ended up losing it. So I overheard a lot about still births and miscarriages and visited graves for cousins I didn’t even know existed. I also knew I was a very premature emergency C-Section and that both me and my mom almost died ourselves. So I think kid me just associated pregnancy with bad things and death and never wanted to know more
I thought when they got married, and kissed at the ceremony, the baby grows
I was born into a super Christian household, so I was told when a couple gets married, the wedding kiss is holy and basically god spawns a baby in the woman
A stork. 😭
Before I actually found out where they came from when I was 12, my dad told me a stork dropped me down the chimney and I was stuck at five years old.
From tooth fairies
I thought babies grew in tummy’s when people got married
I had a random fever dream and belived it until i was 7.
I thought babies came by eating too much eggs, because as a child i thought baby heads looked like eggs.
Kmart
I never thought anything. My mom came home with a new baby every 1-2 years and I wouldn’t stop asking so she told me. I think I was 5 or 6
My brother always told me I was hatched from a can 😆😩
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I always knew that they “came out of mommy’s tummy” (was never clear exactly how) but my first belief was that it was something that just happened automatically shortly after getting married.
But because I was I very inquisitive little kid and asked a lot of questions about things I’d seen insects doing, I found out that daddies had to attach themselves to mommies and transmit special cells to them in order for babies to be made. But since I had no sisters and had never seen any little girls naked I didn’t know about the different body parts. So I deduced that some belly buttons were innies and some were outies because they needed to fit together to make babies. So if you wanted to have babies you needed to marry someone who had the opposite belly button type from you. So between then and when I finally learned the truth about anatomy a couple of years later, I called belly buttons “breeding buttons”.
Butts. I thought they were pooped out.
I never even had time to think about it. Mom got me a comic book style sex ed book narrated by a bird and a bee when I turned like 5 or 6. I read it on my own and it didn’t leave me with any questions about it.
I actually knew about egg and sperm cells wayyy before I knew about where they are in the body (first or second grade, maybe earlier), so I just thought a singular sperm cell would cross over during a kiss (but only if the father wills it to), it’d go inside the egg cell, and a baby would start to grow in an uknown area somewhere in the mother’s abdomen.
I thought God just magically gave it to you, I had no idea that a process is required for that to happen, I remember praying to God to not give me a baby in my stomach, i really did.
I thought babies were just store bought and put together like Ikea furniture.😭In my mind, a baby’s parents got to pick out their features separately at a store and they came home to make them to their liking. This was because when I asked my parents where I came from, they told me they “made” me. I imagined them putting me together just like the couch they had just assembled.
I grew up in a very Muslim household but also had far to much access to the internet so I knew sex was a thing quite young but also thought that Muslim people didn’t have it and that god just decided when…. Or like if he thought you deserved a child you’d get pregnant
Found out when I was like 13 that no in fact everyone had sex through a dictionary when all the boys where giggling over it, pretty sure I tried to convince them they where wrong as well
I thought God would randomly make a woman pregnant after she got married lol. Not much logic to it, but when you’re raised with religion, anything is possible.
Cabbage patches. You can find your baby in the field
Because of watching Alien i thought they popped out of the stomach through the bellybutton
I had a younger sibling born shortly after me so I was always aware of the pregnancy thing, but how one got pregnant wasn’t explained.
At the time I thought only married people had babies together, so I think I just decided that there must be some secret step in a wedding ritual that “switched on” the baby-generating power in the wife. I thought maybe like a spell or a special drink or something, that told the wife’s body that she’s married and can now be pregnant.
I thought a guy and a girl just laid on eachother stiffly and then kissed once LMAO. Thankfully when I was like 5-6 my mom got me a birds and the bees book that explained everything. Never had the talk, just the books. My teachers were definitely concerned when I wrote “book reports “ on that book tho
I thought all you had to do was eat one of those Baby Shower Bubble Gum Cigars and you’d have whatever color you ate
I lived on a farm, so somewhere near a pee hole.
I don’t remember not knowing that a woman carried a baby in her body before giving birth to it.
I do remember thinking that once you were married, conception happened spontaneously. I don’t know why I thought marriage vows were directly responsible for a biological process, but it made sense until age 10.
I have younger siblings so I knew they came from mum but not how they got there. I assumed that my mother just pooped them out…
I walked in on my mom changing and asked why she had a giant scar on her belly. Keep in mind this was the vertical one they used back in the 80’s. She didn’t hesitate to inform me of my origins. Convincing the kids at school that they didn’t have an avian origin was another topic all together. Who knew 5-6 year olds could have an existential crisis.
Ever seen the grinch?
I knew they came out of the mother’s womb after growing in there.
But I thought the priest said magic words at the wedding that started the whole process. And by “trying”, I was not so sure what they meant exactly.
And that single motherhood happened when the magic words struck the wrong person. Hence at a very young age, I did play “home for single mothers” with some of my dolls a few times.
Yes, I had a big imagination. And a big heart. I hope I still do.
I was told the exact mechanism around age 9. I knew all other aspects of growing up and puberty and the sort- though I would turn out to be a late bloomer, so all but one of my classmates went through it before I did.
Comprehensive sex education is an absolute must. And it needs to start young.
Found it a pretty weird way . You see , i discovered porn on yt when i was in 1st grade , but never thought babies come from sex . Then came to know about sperm and eggs from a Bollywood movie , then thought that when a guy kisses a girl , sperm cells transfer from his saliva in girls body . But I always knew i was wrong coz I learnt about sex shortly after , but still didn’t know how sperms actually came in female body . I used to wonder if men pee in the vagina or something like that , then i came in 8th grade , and from my textbook i found out that we ejaculate in females and all that shit . So , yeah , that was it
My mom explained sex when I was 5, the first time I asked, I always knew the the truth
I don’t know, my parents weren’t exactly euphemistic about it. They did leave out some details until I was older but I did know babies grew in the mom and came out the vagina for as long as I can remember.
Same place Guinnea pigs come from
When I was younger, I wasn’t even paying attention.
The stork brings the babies is what we were told
i thought you bought them. i even asked my dad once what store he got me from
I knew they came from a mom, and I knew they came from “sex” when the sperm finds an egg, but for all the biological diagrams, I didn’t have any actual idea what “sex” was.
I remember my complete shock and disbelief when I found out the penis went inside the vagina… I thought it was like a water gun or something.
Stork broght them and let them slide down the chimney. When my mom was pregnant with my younger sibling, I kept checking the fireplace. Then winter came and my parents started using the fireplace…stressed me out, thinking they’ll going to burn the baby.
I once thought babies come from my mom’s stomach because I thought we eat babies before pooping it out. 😭
i assumed that whenever you got married god just decided when he wanted to put one in there and did that
I was told god would put the baby there if the mother wanted one and prayed enough for one when my younger sibling was gestating in the womb.
I was born through c section I just thought you had to cut the stomach and a baby would come out. We played a lot of doctor. Or when we had zero clue, we always found abanonded babies some where 😂
I dont remember not knowing I always knew where they came from and denied the stork bs from day one it didnt make sense to me we grew up with animals and there isn’t any hiding from that sight 🤣
My dad always told me he took a huge dump and couldn’t flush it, I was born the cutest little shit.
The belly button.
The store.
Then the belly button.
From Kmart
Buttholes. And how the baby came to exist was along the lines of mommies were a type of adult and sometimes they grew babies. 🤷🏻♀️
I can’t actually remember not knowing.
I never thought about it. I was too busy thinking about crap like “am I the only person with consciousness and everyone else is fake and only here to convince me “reality” is real?” And “do we all see color the same? If we looked at the same cup do we both see green or am I seeing green and you’re seeing purple?” Also a bit of “is there any way I could focus really hard and shut off my senses, change reality while its not being observed, then focus back on reality and cement my changes?” I was a very weird kid with no friends.
Ok I knew where babies came from but when I was a kid I thought they were made from male pee 😭 I know gross
My dad said that we came from his balls and I was so disgusted by it because my dad doesn’t have any hygiene and he smells a lot like eew gross 🤮
I always knew.
The stork 😆
My father was and still is terrified to even hear the word sex so i got a whopper of a lie. He said they asked god for a baby and then he went out into the woods behind the house and found me by a stump. He said a stork left me there. Now i dont believe in storks or god. way to go pops!
I thought that the women would just “get pregnant” with the man’s baby because her body would know that she’s ready
I thought there was a store, and it kinda looked like that isle with all the buzz light-years on it from toy story. And every box was either pink or blue
I thought it came out of the belly button and private parts were only for using the bathroom. Horrified and confused when I found out the truth.
I thought sex was a blowjob, because you’d swallow and the sperm would go to your tummy and pregnant ladies always had babies in their tummies. Then I assumed that you pooped them out.
Then I did a first aid course when I was 10, and the manual had a section on birth, with illustrations and diagrams.
I asked too much when I was about 4 and my mother was pregnant with my younger brother. By the time she started evading I’d got to the point where she told me that babies came from the mother’s tummy. I asked if there was a third hole, and she evaded. And I never forgot that evasion. It set the standard for things I couldn’t ask my mother. At 7 Sonya Whaley showed me the whole setup and explained what she knew of it. I asked her if she thought they were supposed to fit together. She didn’t know how that would work, and neither of us had any interest in trying that out. We both had our answers and our curiosity was satisfied. I never even though about it more until I was in my teens and wondered where she went when we both moved away. She was my best friend’s twin and set my standard for what I like in girls. Long dark hair and sharp as a tack.
It just happened, like you wanted a baby and just like that, you have a baby. I was young when my sister had her first and always wondered how it happened, especially because her boyfriend was never around.
I thought if the mom and dad wanted one bad enough God would come down and implant it in the mom😂I was a dumb child I know haha
I thought they came out of belly buttons and just happened
i thought when you got married that you just became pregnant, and whenever i saw teen pregnancies on the news or whatever i got very confused
From special pills (prenatal vitamins) that my mom took.
I remember being young enough to think a stork has something to do with it.
I was told they came out of mom’s belly. So I pictured a black hole opening up on a woman’s stomach and the baby just yeeting out😭
Stork. I thought you ordered one.
I thought they came out of your belly button?
I thought you’d press the belly button and it’d come out on a little tray. My thinking was that if it’s called a belly ‘button’ something must happen when you press it! I also distinctly remember being horrified upon learning that babies are born without clothes. Up until then, about the age of 6, I was convinced that while growing in the belly, the baby grew itself a baby grow
I thought for a while we were just pooped out
And If a woman and a man were near each other for too long, the woman would get pregnat
I knew they came from two people but I assumed they did the bird/reptilian mating where they do the nasty and then mom lays an egg
By the intention to get a baby
I literally thought women just popped up pregnant randomly in their life without a man. I just thought at some point in their life the universe would just decide it’s time to be pregnant. I was always worried when I was little because I was like “what if the universe decides I don’t get to be pregnant?” As for how I actually thought they were born, I just thought they came out of the belly button.