Your umbilical cord was attached to mom's belly button (in vitro) and that was how you got food until you were born
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- That the belly button was the place where babies where born from.Anon
- 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
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann
- I was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff