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Okay, this is something that popped into my head recently. I don't even know if I'll ultimately end up using it, but whether I go ahead with the fic or not, the question is lodged in my head now, and I don't know where else to go with this sort of thing. I tried GOOGLE, but got nothing, and anyway, maybe I or even someone else could use this scene in any other fic down the road...

Anyway, my question is this:

What are some interesting theories that children have on where babies come from? Or are todays tots too educated?

Well, there's still the old stories. The stork, found in a cabbage patch (yes, the story existed long before the dolls did).

Boys are found in cabbage patches, girls are found in roses.
There's the stork. There's the one where you go to the hospital and choose which one you want.

There's mommy swallowed a watermelon seed (that explains the tummy).

Generally, kids repeat whatever Granma says, but based on my own kid - a bright kid knows babies grow inside mommies and come out when they're ready. But how mommy gets pregnant may be a bit of a mystery.

I read a story once where a girl of about 12 or so thought she could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet after a man peed on it. Oh and of course some kids think you could get pregnant just by kissing.

My sisters and I once thought hot-tubbing resulted in children--although we never had a hot tub.

And one of my friend's mothers was told that HER parents "went for a drive," and then they got her.

Wait! Hold on! You're telling me the stork story isn't true?

Next you're going to be telling me there's no such thing as Santa Clause.

ML

My mom and dad got me at K-Mart. My older sister they got at Sears. Guess they had a bit more money to spend on the first child.

ETA: When we were bad, my dad would always threaten to return us.

Sara

My parents used to tell us we were dropped by the eagles, and my sister likes to say that my other sister was dropped by the vultures.

As a slightly side note, when my mom was pregnant with my younger sister, my parents kept telling my older sister that she was getting, "a new baby sister." When the nurse asked my older sister how she liked her new baby sister, she replied, "fine... now we can get rid of Anna." I'm loved, can you tell?

~Anna

My mom was a midwife, so when I was a kid, I knew WAY too much about where babies came from! She used to have books with vivid graphics lying around and was not shy about sharing the details. I used to wish that I could believe in the stork!!!

Well, we had to watch an eductional movie in fourth grade where a woman givs birth, shown with all the gorey details. (Okay, it was cut short a bit, but that was about all the editing it got.)

I remember going home, still shell-shocked, and announcing that I was *never* going to have a baby.

But I knew before that that babies are growing in the mummy's tummy and that, somehow, they get out when they're ready since I have a brother four years my junior.

One story not mentioned before is the one about flowers and bees. (Never heard that one, but many references to it.)

Oh, and somewhere I heard the "God gives children to loving parents" part.

You guys wouldn't believe the recent conversation that Olympe and I had about this subject. Most of was... well, I'm a nurse and I think it was a little too medically graphic to put on the PG side of things...

But I've got to say that Olympe told me about a myth I'd never heard that says CocaCola prevents pregnancy (and I don't mean drinking it). That one had me lying in the floor laughing.


Oh, my gadfries... You're kidding. It might have been a little less traumatic to see puppies being born....


I think I always knew about babies being in a mommy's tummy, too. (I just didn't know how they got there.) But then I was always curious about all things about the human body.


The birds and the bees - or the flowers and the bees - speaks of pollination of flowers by bees (and birds). Thus it has become a more general term for procreation.

I remember hearing people mention 'The Pumpkin Patch'.

When I first became a nurse (27 years ago), it was a different time. At that time (and again later), I worked in obstetrics. I had one girl tell me, "I still don't understand how I could be having a baby. I didn't eat any watermelon. I hate watermelon." She truly did not understand what she had done that caused her pregnancy until I patiently explained it to her. She was in shock. That's just one of the things that I heard...

Here's one I just dreamed up: Superman brings babies to folks.

When I think of the Stork bring the babies I always envision the opening scene in the Disney movie Dumbo and the Storks bring all the babies to their mothers

I had a friend once go over the gorey details about your mother and father really loving each other needless to say we really didn't want to think about that! I think my other friend said 'don't even say that!'

No, I was not kidding about the film. But I guess I got over it...

Nancy, don't remind me of Coca Cola! Don't, don't , don't!

Here is the link to where I found all those myths:
myths about birth control
Enjoy!

not exactly 'where do come from', but a variation - the old changeling swap thing

c.

The movie? What movie? Oh, the educational movie.

Hey, CC, I can't say that I've ever heard of the changeling swap thing. Of what do you speak?

I told my oldest, almost 3, that she picked out her brother at the hospital. She told me about 6 months later that she picked out the wrong baby, we needed to take him back. LOL

I wouldn't completely dismiss the idea. Coca Cola is acid and the sperm can't move when the surrounding is too acidic. That doesn't mean that I'd try that method, at least not if I was really serious with not wanting to get pregnant.

I also love the story the mother come up with in Now and Then, about the watering hose and the flower garden.

How about the related film shown in high-school? That's when the captain of the football team faints and all the girls are laughing at the guys.

FOURTH GRADE?!?

I remember seeing a video about puberty in FIFTH grade, but one where a woman gives birth?!? No way. My parents never would've signed the permission form when I was nine years old.

We didn't even get into actual sex ed classes until sixth grade, and they were given every year, but I only had my parents sign the permission form for the one in sixth grade, and then I took an alternate assignment in seventh and eighth.