I used to think that when you were ready to be born your mum would press her belly button and you would just pop out.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman - That the belly button was the place where babies where born from.Anon
- I used to believe that inside each volcano there was a guy who'd press a button to make it erupt.— Jim, UK
- 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