I used to believe that if you had an operation, it had to start at the belly button. So if you had to have brain surgery...boy howdy!

Rosie

I used to belief that women had babies by pressing their belly buttons!

amy

I used to believe you could breathe through your belly button. I think this belief came from swimming lessons, where when I was doing the back float the teacher would say "Keep your belly out of the water" which I guess made me think my navel was like a whale's blowhole.

John

Me and my sisters all have sticky-innie belly-buttons and when we were all little our mum used to tell us not to pick and poke at our belly-buttons or they would come unravelled!

My sister still believed this until the age of 28 - when me and my other sister explained it was just one of those things mums say!

Loopy-Loo

For years I believed that babies came out of an oven in a factory and that God pressed their tummies, like you would a cake, and pronounced "you're done" - and I had proof of this because my navel was obviously where God had prodded me! I also believed that dark skinned ladies used cocoa powder as face powder and that hill sheep were a special breed with two legs shorter than the others so that they could stand upright. Thanks, Dad!!!

Amanda

I was told that by one of my big sisters friends that if I played with my belly button my skin would roll off. I think perhaps she had a problem with hers in retrospect

Erk

Mummy told me that my belly button had an unlimmited amount of wool in it. When I was in the bath, why didn't I shrink?

David 1974ad

When I was little my Mother told me that if I 'played' with my belly button my arms and legs would fall off. I believed this for years!!

Marteeni

I used to beleive that if I soaked in a bath for too long, my belly buttob 'knot' would come undone and all my insides would fall out....I still can't touch mine (or anyone elses!!!) Tho am very relieved other people have these beliefs too....!

Catte

If you played with your belly button the knot that the midwife tied would come undone and all your insides would fall out. Even know I don't like my belly button being touched!!!

crazy_timbo

Well, this isn't mine, but I had both of my daughters convinced that I could "take" their belly buttons and give them back. The older one was 4 or 5 when she finally figured out that I was fooling.

Marla

when i was young i used to believe that if i pull my belly button my skin wil fall of, so i tried for years to do it and when i sucseeded nothing hapend i only had an outie insted of an innie!!!

NO ONE

I used to think that if I played with my belly button too much, it'd come untied and all my skin would fall off.

Amanda

When I was little, I had and outtie belly button. Well, my brother and my mom both told me constantly that I was a Cabbage Patch Kid, and that they had found me under a leaf of lettuce.

Angie

To add to the belly button thing. I was also told by my mom that if you messed with your belly button it would come undone and that my guts would come out. I honestly believed this until I had my first child at 18. I was observing my belly button and it was quite dirty. I called my grandma to see how I should clean it and she told me with a q tip and some rubbing alcohol. I then told her I was scared that I was going to untie my belly button. After she gathered herself from laughter, I told her it was her daughter that told me this would happen. That made it that much funnier to her. Don't worry, I clean my belly button all the time now, but this is still a family joke and usually gets brought up around the holidays. Good to know I can be the one for laughter.

K.C.