Where did you think babies came from before you were given "The Talk"?

[Brown Cap]

I thought since babies were so soft and doughy looking, they were like bread, and you just got a "baby mix" and you bake a baby

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I always thought that once a couple got married it just happened, the woman got pregnant as if it were magic or something, if they didn't want a baby it wouldn't happen. I never really put much thought into the dumbness of it. I was told when I was 10 or 11 I think.

Pretty much this. I understood at around 6 years old that babies came from moms (My mom explained that to me when she told me that I was going to have a little brother). I knew SOME kind of interaction between the mom and dad happened to make it happen, but I thought it was some magical kiss, or something. Then, when I was 12 (I think), my mom gave me a book that explained HOW the mom gets pregnant, and I was like "0_0 Wait...this only applies to animals and not humans right? Right?! .........Oh....Oh wow...that's kind of gross...pee comes out of there.....".

And then I soon got used to the idea, and no longer found it weird. Although I didn't quite get why everyone in high school wanted sex, if all it was for ws making babies. And then I (no joke) ACCIDENTALLY masturbated. And then I went "...Oh THAT'S why". ....And then much later I now wonder why some people are obsessed with sex when they can get the same result by themselves (then again, I'm still a virgin, so...maybe it's different, I don't know.)

....I dunno, too much information, guys? If so, I apologize. XD

I thought since babies were so soft and doughy looking, they were like bread, and you just got a "baby mix" and you bake a baby

....*bursts out laughing* Oh that is HILARIOUS. That's got to be one of the most creative and hilarious theories I've ever heard. XD

 

[ssgt splatter]

The Stork.
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No, I'm serious. That's what I got from a Looney Toons cartoon waaaay back when I was 6.

 

[Krion_Vark]

Personally? I didn't really care. They were just really fun to play with when I was little before I found out. My bigger question was where did they go when they stopped coming to my moms daycare. I think it also helps to have a brother 2 years younger than me and a sister 4 years younger than me so I kinda knew where they came from.

 

[Crazy]

I was never given "The Talk", I found out through experiments and social gatherings.

 

[Jake|Ranger]

Well when I was growing up, there was some a Christian commercial on TV with a bunch of kids walking through some trees proudly annoucning, 'God made me'. Over and over again for 30 seconds. Of course I was brought up believing that was bull shit so I completely hated that ad every time it came on.

I guess I knew that babies came from a girls tummy, didn't know how it got there, but I never actually ever really thought about it.

And I never got "the talk". No where I am from, they teach sex ed at primary school from year 4 to year 7. Which means I was 9 when I actually learned how it happened.

(I'm from Australia, I live in Queensland, as far as I know a lot of the schools in my area do the same thing, not sure about the rest of QLD or other states though)

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

People bought them at the hospital. I deciphered rather early in my life that that wasn't the case, though (I asked A LOT of questions as a child).

 

[Gunjester]

I learned about it from friends at eight.
Before that I just knew they grew in women's "tummies".

I was from a Latin family, there were many pregnancies surrounded me as a boy.

 

[UrieHusky]

I was never given "the talk" I just figured it out from a very early age. I honestly can't remember what I believed before then, I think I believed doctors grew them like plants after seeing rows of cradles in a maternity ward XD but it's a very vague memory

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

I can't remember nor knowing. I remember not knowing how sex worked, but I can't remember not knowing what it led to. Strange really. I guess my parents never felt like lying to me about things.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I specifically remember not caring. I was more interested in building bionicles and playing Spyro, really...
I did, however, get sex ed in first grade... it was... embarrassing.

 

[fix-the-spade]

As a young child I was fascinated by nature TV shows, so I never needed the talk, I knew, dear God I already knew!!!

I never got "the talk" from my parents though. The internet gave it to me instead. :/

Fair enough, but I hope you learned somewhere else as well, real life involves less tentacles.

 

[Daniel Janhagen]

I don't think I even thought about it before I knew. I learned from a book when I was 4 or 5, same as pretty much every kid I knew.

 

[Keepeas]

hmmm....well
1) I knew it had to do with a guy and a girl....
2) I knew guys and girls have different parts....
.....ummm I honestly don't remember thinking anything but the truth...
maybe I just put 1 and 2 together and figured it out?
then again...I DID start looking for ~pictures~ when I was in like 3rd grade....

 

[NathLines]

Women. Seriously, does stuff like "the talk" still exist? I didn't know anything about sex or how birth worked, but I did know that women with big bellies were going to have babies.

 

[Fbuh]

I didn't think they came from anywhere before "The Talk", as I was told where they came from when I asked. I was six years old, and my mother told me how it happens. A couple years later, I came back with some more questions and she told me that too. By the time I was 10 and we were doing sex ed in school, it wasn't anything new.

She told me everythign very straight forward. On retrosect, it was a very good decision on her part, and I don't really understand the necessity of other parents to lie about storks or magic diamonds in cabbage patches. It's only going to hurt the kid later in life.

 

[Pyramid Head]

I believed babies came from demonic summoning rituals.

I kid. I actually learned about the birds and the bees pretty early in my life, and i honestly can't remember what my theory was back then. All i really remember was some weird fantasies about Pikachu murdering the weird cartoon dog Blue and eating the carcass.

 

[AngloDoom]

My parents just gave me a bookshelf full of books about basically everything. Since my sister hogged the Super Nintendo, I decided to read lots. I found out everything about where babies come from before I was old enough to reach the top shelf of the book-case. I can't even remember what I thought about babies back then.

Methinks my parents found a fantastic way to avoid answering the difficult questions.