belly buttons

If you played with your belly button the knot that the midwife tied would come undone and all your insides would fall out. Even know I don't like my belly button being touched!!!

crazy_timbo

Well, this isn't mine, but I had both of my daughters convinced that I could "take" their belly buttons and give them back. The older one was 4 or 5 when she finally figured out that I was fooling.

Marla

when i was young i used to believe that if i pull my belly button my skin wil fall of, so i tried for years to do it and when i sucseeded nothing hapend i only had an outie insted of an innie!!!

NO ONE

I used to think that if I played with my belly button too much, it'd come untied and all my skin would fall off.

Amanda

When I was little, I had and outtie belly button. Well, my brother and my mom both told me constantly that I was a Cabbage Patch Kid, and that they had found me under a leaf of lettuce.

Angie

To add to the belly button thing. I was also told by my mom that if you messed with your belly button it would come undone and that my guts would come out. I honestly believed this until I had my first child at 18. I was observing my belly button and it was quite dirty. I called my grandma to see how I should clean it and she told me with a q tip and some rubbing alcohol. I then told her I was scared that I was going to untie my belly button. After she gathered herself from laughter, I told her it was her daughter that told me this would happen. That made it that much funnier to her. Don't worry, I clean my belly button all the time now, but this is still a family joke and usually gets brought up around the holidays. Good to know I can be the one for laughter.

K.C.

my friend was told by her mum that if she played with her belly button it would come undone and she'd have a hole for the rest of her life. She's turning 20 now and she will not, and i mean WILL NOT touch her belly button..

reggie

When I was younger I believed that to get babies out of their mothers stomachs you pressed their belly buttons and out they popped. How niave

Sam Harvey

For ages after watching home alone, I believed that babys were born through the belly button & men only had belly buttons so they new where to pull there swimming trunks up to.

k!tty

I used to (ok, the habit stuck, I still do) stick my finger in my belly button. My parents told me that if I took my finger out, all the air would come out. I was terrified that I would die if "all the air came out."

Ruth

My gran thought that if I got my bellybutton peirced I wouldn't be able to have children as they would need to feed off my umbillicle cord.

Bee

If you undo your belly-button with a screwdriver, your legs will fall off.

Toby

When I was about 4 years old, my mom said if I swallowed to much gum, my belly botton would get so big, you could see through!

Erica

I used to believe that if you got all the black bits out of your belly-button, your insides would fall out ! I believed that untill I was about 10 then realised it was dirt and not seeds which I thaught I was born with to keep my insides inside!

Bev