Up until this year (im 17) i used to think that a baby was connected to the moms belly button, from the umbilical cord just to the belly button. I always wondered how they got food and oxygen. Thanks to medical school I know its not true!
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when you pushed your belly button a baby would pop out im now 14 and know the truth — kelsey
- 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 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
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann