Up untill the age of about 7 or 8, I was completly convinced that the reason we all have bellybuttons is because when God made us in his giant oven the way he knew that we were cooked was by prodding the middle of our bellys (like a fairy cake). It also explained the two varieties of bellybuttons; the innie and the outie. If you were not done then yoour bellybutton would pop out after being poked, hence outies.
If you were done then they would stay in.
Unfortunatly this belief was shattered when dressing my baby sister just after birth, I was most disgusted to fing a large brown 'worm' instead of a neat bellybutton.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- when i was 5, i thougt my outie bellybutton was a third eye that opens when im a sleep.— bellyeye????
- I used to believe that babies were born out our bellybuttons.Anon
- My friend and I used to believe that we could gain special powers by pressing our bellybuttons and wishing.— Andrew
- If you touch your bellybutton, it will get infected.Anon
- That if you fiddled with your bellybutton it would unscrew your bum and it would fall off— Sundaeg1rl
- I thought liposuction was squeezing the fat out of your bellybutton. Too bad it's not that easy...— Angela