I knew that the belly button was associated somehow with birth, so I thought that when you were going to give birth, your belly button opened up like the old CBS logo on TV - like an old camera lens! Then the baby would easily come out and the 'lens' would close up again.
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 - when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette
- My mom says that when she was growing up, she thought that her belly button was where her skin came together.— Dana