Most of my parental explanations about where babies come from began with "well, when a man and a woman get married, love each other very much and decide they want a baby..." so back in the day, I automatically assumed that babies were brought by a combination of wanting and love (come to think of it, it kind of is a combination of those two...) on behalf of the parents.
Anyway, I assumed you could will a baby to be born because you were ready and loved your husband/wife and reallyreallyreally wanted a child. And that was not really correct.
I didn't buy the stork thing because my immediate association with storks was what I knew of Dumbo and Vlasic pickles.
"MOM! THE STORK ONLY BRINGS ELEPHANT BABIES"
"...and pickles!"
Where did you think babies came from before you found out what really needs to happen?
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i thought babies came from my mom's belly.
and i thought you get pregnant by kissing someone.
I thought thatif my parents kissed enough they would have one lol
my mom told me that you just pray to God for a child, and it just appears in your stomach. and I always thought that delivery was through cutting open the mom's actual stomach, as I didn't know about the reproductive organs of course.
I always knew it was sex.
@bmxgirl165@xanga - Kinda like how it happens on Sims, right? That always makes me laugh. XD
Little jars. Yeeeeeeeeh.
Well, coming from a "Christian" family, I thought this:
Mommy and Daddy have to love eachother a lot and then want to have a baby. Then they pray for one and they will get one.
I never really thought about it when I was little, and I don't remember asking. I'm the younger of two so I never saw my mom pregnant or anything. I suppose my brother may have asked when my mom was pregnant with me, but I don't know what she would have said.
i thought my dad was my dad because he was the doctor that delivered me.i thought whatever man delivered the baby was the daddy. and i thought that women had babies through their bellybuttons while in their bathing suits. i think i thought they were called *babysuits*.
Well I was the oldest in my family, so I saw my mom pregnant and other women pregnant. When I asked how the baby came out, she said the mom pushed them out. So I remember spending so much time trying to figure it out. I thought they came out of their bellybutton. xD
But like, how someone got pregnant? I have no idea what I thought. I thought that if you wanted to get pregnant, you did.
I didn't give it much thought.
i dont think i ever asked and all.
I assume I always knew because I never gave it any thought and don't remember a time when I didn't know where they came from or what "sex" was and such things.
Santa Claus. Now that's another story.
Honestly, I thought they were puked out.
Or pooped out...I thought babies came out of your butt. Haha.
"When a mommy and a daddy love each other VERY much, they share a special hug and then God sends a baby to grow inside the mommy's tummy!"
my mom had a c-section with my brother, so i thought they just always cut babies out of the mothers' stomachs. needless to say, i'm still not too keen on having kids.
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For the entire duration of my childhood, I loved the Stork idea better than my mum and dad kissing each other.
i knew from a young age, my sister had a home birth and my mother made me watch sex education videos so by the time i was seven i was entirely knowledgeable on sperm, penises, and all that jazz
I thought when a couple kiss, their germs go into the mother's stomach where the baby grows until the mom poops it out. O_O
But since toilets aren't very sanitary, mankind decided birth would occur in hospitals.
I was the youngest sibling of my family for the longest time. Including cousins. So for a long time everyone was older than me. So I thought babies just randomly appeared one day on somebody's front poorch and then the door would open and the baby would crawl in and the family would just automatically love it. Since my mom was a single mom and I was somehow vaguely aware of single dads I figured that once the mom or dad saw the baby they just somehow knew it was theirs and were filled with love for it. Then they would get to decide the parent of the opposite gender, but they could take their time cuz once they chose they couldn't change their mind.
Then one day my aunt came by and she had a huge belly and everyone said they were having a baby! And they already had a mommy and daddy decided. So then I thought that a mommy would one day find out she was pregnaunt and would decide who the daddy was, and if she was in love with someone then she would pick him to be the daddy. Or sometimes a mommy would get pregnaunt, but the daddy wanted it instead because God decided that the mommy was not ready for a baby, but wanted the daddy to have one. I wasn't aware of hospitals so I figured that one day she would just wake up and her belly would be gone and she'd have a baby in the room next to her or something.
In other words, it just happened.
I have no idea how I learned about the connection between sex and babies, but I think it had something to do with a rumor that went around school when I was in 7th grade about one of the girls having sex with guys in the bathroom for money. She got pregnaunt. All other details about how I learned stuff I would preffer not to say here.
never thought about it
From the Hospital.
...but only if you're married will they give you one.@Roadlesstaken@xanga - That's what my best friend thought. I, on the other hand, didn't really think about it. Then we saw an educational video in fourth grade and were baffled. I remember one time my dad was telling me how he saw a dog give birth and how the puppies came out of its butt. For some reason I never assumed the same for humans.
i thought they emerged from the belly button.