Once as a child, I asked my mother, "How does a baby in a mom's belly get food?" All my mother said was "Through the bellybutton." From then on I believed that a pregnant woman fed her unborn baby by spooning applesauce through her own bellybutton.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- That because Gerber Baby Food had a baby on it real babies were put in there. Thanks a lot cousin!— Nicole
- If you touch your bellybutton, it will get infected.Anon
- That if you fiddled with your bellybutton it would unscrew your bum and it would fall off— Sundaeg1rl
- I thought liposuction was squeezing the fat out of your bellybutton. Too bad it's not that easy...— Angela
- I was told when young that if i kept poking my bellybutton my bum would drop off.— vicky
- when i was 5, i thougt my outie bellybutton was a third eye that opens when im a sleep.— bellyeye????