We sure do believe some strange things about the manner in which babies are conceived! Woman get in the family way merely by swimming or being hit by a bullet. Staggering numbers of couples engage in sex (and ultimately have children) every time a blackout or a blizzard keeps them confined for hours at a time. And don't even mention all the crazy ideas kids believe ...
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Woman sues pharmacy after eating contraceptive jelly fails to prevent pregnancy.
Girl gives birth to octopus (or lizard, frog, fish, or snake).
Woman is impregnated with sperm carried by bullet.
Girl is impregnated by sperm in swimming pool.
Town through which early morning train passes has high birth rate.
Daughter uses mother's birth control pills and replaces them with aspirin.
Birth rate in New York City increased nine months after the 1965 blackout.
A lawyer left his estate to the woman who gave birth to the most babies within a
Woman becomes pregnant after using bathwater her son had ejaculated in.
Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide.*
A rammed car leads to pregnancy.
A baby born in-flight is given free air travel for the rest of his life.
In the days when the "rabbit test" was used to determine if a woman was pregnant, the rabbit's death was an indicator of a positive result.
A man who has had an embryo implanted in his abdomen is engaged in the world's first human male pregnancy.
A mother posted a chiding note after someone drank the "special" milk she left in the refrigerator.
Pregnant woman is accused of trying to shoplift a basketball.
Drug test cheater is caught when urinalysis reveals that he's pregnant.
"A girl can't become pregnant if it's her first time," and other conception myths.
A woman experiencing difficulty conceiving misunderstands her gynecologist's examination instructions.
The color change displayed by a mixture of Drano and urine from a pregnant woman will predict the sex of the unborn child.
Childless couple discovers the cause of their infertility is a lack of sex.
The youngest mother on record was a five-year-old Peruvian girl.
A compendium of menstrual superstitions.
Expectant mother produces growing cascade of guffaws by reseating herself under a series of ads on a bus.
White bride gives birth to black child nine months after her wild bachelorette party.*
An identical twin given to the wrong parents was coincidentally reunited with his brother later in life.
Overdue pregnant women induce labor by eating at specific restaurants.
Second grader acts out birth process as her show-and-tell offering.
Viewing a 3D porn film made a gal pregnant.
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