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
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- i used to believe that when you pushed your belly button a baby would pop out im now 14 and know the truth — kelsey
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman - babies come out of your belly button— Kit
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana