I believed, up until I had my first child, that the doctor actually knotted your babies belly button into an innie or an outie. I asked the doc to give my daughter an innie and was really embarassed to find out that that's not how it works!!!
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- babies come out of your belly button— Kit
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- That the belly button was the place where babies where born from.Anon
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman - when i was a child i used to think that my belly button was for storing smarties— GemSue
- i used to believe that guys pulled out their outie belly buttons and that's how they peed.— Sky