When mom explained that unborn babies eat through the bellybutton,my sister and I believed pregnant women would feed their babies by placing the food (i.e. a chicken leg), in their belly button and the baby would just reach out and take it. -We always wondered where the bones went.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman - I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- When my sister was little, she believed that women had babies and men had poodles!— Sarah P
- babies come out of your belly button— Kit
- When i was between the age of 3-7 i used to bleave that babies came out of your belly buttonAnon