belly buttons

in my youth, i asked my mother where belly buttons came from. she said that when we are born we are cooked in an oven and they poke you to see if you are 'done'. you're belly button was the scar. she added we were all different colours because some people are cooked for longer.

mr pea

When I was little my Mom told me that if I kept playing with my belly button my arms and legs would fall off. That's why they call it a belly button because it holds your body together.

Pam H.

I was once told that you made babies by touching belly buttons - my mum, not wanting to have to explain the real method wsa quite happy to confirm the tale.

Anon

i use to bleave that a belly buttion was another mouth on my body and i will try to feed it

come on down and lets play tpir!

My mom says that when she was growing up, she thought that her belly button was where her skin came together.

Dana

I used to believe that babies were born out our bellybuttons.

Anon

I was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.

Shurnuff

I knew that the belly button was associated somehow with birth, so I thought that when you were going to give birth, your belly button opened up like the old CBS logo on TV - like an old camera lens! Then the baby would easily come out and the 'lens' would close up again.

ali

When I was little I knew a man who were very little. He was not like the rest of us. I belived that when he was born he came out of the bellybottom.

Berit

I thought liposuction was squeezing the fat out of your bellybutton. Too bad it's not that easy...

Angela

My brother used to tell me that you gave birth through your belly button. I could never work out how a baby could get through a hole so small...

Jen

I used to belive that if your belly button was unscrewed, your legs would fall off.
I used to believe that is you touched a picture in a book, it would come alive that night.

Debidoo

When I was little my father told me that if you undid the *knot* that the doctor's made which later became your belly button that you would deflate like a balloon. Flopping around the room included.

daddy's little girl

when i was little, i was depressed and worried for days, cuz i thought my belly button was going to disappear. i thought it was just getting smaller and smaller...

little miss from norway

My father had my brother and me convinced that if we unbuttoned our bellybuttons, our legs would fall off...for years, whenever I washed my bellybutton, I was so afraid that I would accidentally release the mechanism that held my legs on. My brother spent hours actually TRYING to unbutton his bellybutton, and was very disappointed when it didn't work.

K.

My Mom used to tell me that she could take a screwdriver and unscrew our belly buttons and our legs would fall off. But I always had a great sensitivity in my belly button and couldn't stand for it to be touched.

WickidWitchiee