i used to think you were either born wit a belly button ring. i was horrified when my sister came home with a belly button ring that she didnt have when we were kids. i thought that was why mom yelled at her :)
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
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- My mom says that when she was growing up, she thought that her belly button was where her skin came together.— Dana
- babies come out of your belly button— Kit