When I was about 5, I used to believe that when a woman got pregnant, all she needed to do was press her belly button, and a baby would pop out.

Rosie Young

This isn't my belief, but a friend of mines. It was the funniest one I've heard. When she was young, she believed that if you poked your belly button, you would fly.

Anon

This one is my mothers really. Her grandpa used to tell her that if she unscrewed her belly button her arms and legs would fall off. That's one of those that was so graciously past down to me. I had forgotten all about until today. I'll have to tell my daughter tommorow!

PeanutLuLu

when i was younger i used to mess with my belly button all the time because i didnt have a innie or outie my belly button was level with my stomach & my father us to tell that the belly button kept me alive in my mothers stomachwhen i was a baby& if i keep messing with it i would die .he never explain why it kept me alive. so up to this day i am terrified of people messing with my belly button

leelee

Sadly to this day I won't let anyone poke my belly button in fear of them poking into my stomache.

Holly

I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out

Chris Hyndman

I used to believe that my belly button might come untied and I'd deflate and die. For years I was always looking at my belly button and freaked out crying if it ever looked weird in anyway. I was always getting yelled at in class for sitting with my finger in my belly button all day.

Charity

When I was around 7 years old, I asked my mother what the Belly button is for. She told me "that's where the chord connects from a mother to her baby before it's born." I replied "But *I'm* never gonna have a baby? Why do I have one?" My mother didn't understand my question, and I started believing she didn't know what she was talking about.

Apparently, I believed that was the place the chord would eventually form, from the inside out.

Itty

when I was little my sister told me that if I played with my belly button, and put thing's in it I would die. Boy was I a dope head!!!!

TW

My mother told me that my skin would unravel if I stuck my finger in my bellybutton. Even though I know now that it isn't true, I won't put my finger in my bellybutton. Strange how those childhood things stick in your subconscious fears...

J.

When I was a small, unscrubbed child I thought the black dirt in my belly button was left over umbilical cord from my birth.

Mud Pie Maker

When I was little I loved to poke in my belly button until oneday my granny told me that if I keep playing around with it, it would come undone and I would fly around the room like a balloon that wasnt tied right. I still have a thing about people touching my button and when I think about someone touching it I get all squirmy.Thanks granny love you !

sue

I used to think that women had babies through their belly buttons.

I figured that when the baby was big enough to be born, the belly button would open up and the baby lifted out, and then the belly button would just close right up again.

I'm guessing a lot of people wish it could be that simple...

K

When my niece was little, about 8 years old, I had her convinced that twins (I have an identical twin sister) did not have belly buttons. It took her about 5 years to learn the difference. I am a little bit over weight, and I had pulled the front of my pants down just far enough to where you would think a belly button should be.

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