When I was little I used to think that newborn babies came out of the Mommy's bellybutton. Because the babies had a piece of the umbilical cord on their bellybutton it made perfect sense to my little person mind.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that newborn babies didnt open their eyes for a few weeks like kittens :) — Cash
- 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
- I was told when young that if i kept poking my bellybutton my bum would drop off.— vicky
- when i was 5, i thougt my outie bellybutton was a third eye that opens when im a sleep.— bellyeye????