I was told that when women were pregnant they would get so fat their belly buttons would pop out. What it actually meant was that their innies would turn into outies, but I thought they would literally pop off their stomachs and land on the floor. When my mom was pregnant with my younger sister, I would follow her around, looking for any belly buttons that landed on the floor. I also figured that the woman would give it to the baby and then grow a new one after the pregnancy ended. I figured that a mother only had a certain number to give to her children, since I am the fourth of five children and my mom never got pregnant (or showed her belly button) after my younger sister was born.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie
- I used to belief that women had babies by pressing their belly buttons!— amy
- I had an uncle that told me that we had belly buttons for putting salt in while we ate celery in bed.— ainmama2001
- i uses to believe that boys wee'd out of their belly buttons.— boys and toilets
- I used to believe that babies came out of belly buttons — kels
- that bunnies came out of belly buttonsAnon