I thought that the belly button was sort of like a doorway. I thought that babies came out of there, which was a common belief.
But one day when I was about four, I was eating mashed potatoes at dinner and a little chunk fell onto my belly button. I didn't feel it, but when I looked down, I panicked. "My belly button's LEAKING!"
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- babies come out of your belly button— Kit
- That the belly button was the place where babies where born from.Anon
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman