I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...

Debelouwho

I used to believe (and still do) that when you play with your belly button that it will come undone and everything will come out. So whenever my boyfriend touches my belly i freak out cause i don't want my belly to come undone!

Amanda P.

My dad told me when I was little that my belly button was "Where the Indian shot me"

Anon

I used to believe that if you pierced your belly button it would fall off and the piercers would glue a fake one on. (Thats how you got an outie). When I got mine pierced I asked if they could somehow keep mine as an innie and they laughed at me. I was soooo embarassed as my friend who has an outie had hers pierced and I thought that was how it happened!

Jess

As a child I believed that your belly-button was your "done spot". God would walk done the rows of babies waiting to be born, inspecting each one. If the baby was ready, he would push his finger into the stomachs and say "Your Done My Child time to be born".

Marsha

i use to believe that if u pressed ur mummys belly button, out popped a baby

b

when i was small i asked my big brother why we had bellybuttons and he told me that we came from outerspace and we were aliens and we could communicate with the alien people through them, he told me to try it and i would spend hours talking to my bellybutton but i never got a response. :(

sad sally

I used to believe that when God made you he would fit your skin around you and the belly button was where he twisted the skin closed and then tied a knot so your skin would stay on.

Joyce

I used to believe after a woman had a baby her stomach would be like a rubber band, it would stretch out than after the baby go back to normal.

Brittany D. O.

When i was 5 my dad told me that if i played with my belly-button it would get bigger and bigger and i would have a big hole in the front of me. i Never touched it again.

Holly

My mom always told us that our belly button was a bear cave and when we got hungry: the stomach growl, was actually the bear growling. she said that we had better feed it before it got mad!

Christy

My mom always told us that our belly button was a bear cave and when we got hungry: the stomach growl, was actually the bear growling. she said that we had better feed it before it got mad!

Christy

My Mom used to tell me that we got our Belly Buttons from God pushing on our belly's to see if we were "done". Babies were cooked in an oven so to speak...

Anon

I use to believe that there was a little city in my belly button. My older sister said that tiny people live there. I got so scared that I did not want to touch it.

Kara

When I was about 3 years old, I asked my sister, who is 5 years older than me, "Why are there lines on your belly button?" She told me that they were there because she could "grow" candy out of it. That night before we went to bed, she showed me her belly button and sure enough, there were pieces of candy in there. I think she finally had to tell me she was lying when she ran out of candy!

Carrie

I learned to read at a very early age, which was kind of unfortunate. Anyway, at the time, I was really interested on how babies develop. I was reading a book about it and it said that the mother's stomach grows so large, her navel pops out. I thought by "pops out" it meant "pops off her stomach and falls onto the floor." I figured it was so the mother could give it to the baby when its umbilical cord falls off. My mom was pregnant with my younger sister at the time, so I constantly followed her around to listen for a popping noise so I could pick up any belly buttons that might have fallen on the floor!

Jenny

I used to think babies came out of belly buttons

Anon

I used to think that when you were pregnant, the baby's umbelical cord was joined to you behind your belly button!

Roz

Being the curious sort I used to ask my dad what belly buttons were for. He told me that it was where he was shot by an arrow when he was little while playng cowboys and indians. Naturally, I refused to play cowboys and indians with friends and insisted on cops and robbers instead. I do remember thinking I was getting a raw deal as I did not get to play with a bow and arrow.

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