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What’s behind your belly button? On the inside.

168 replies

Snooks1971 · 17/02/2022 20:57

Just this - do not Google it!
Presumably the inside bits just die off ??
Putting my finger into my belly button makes me feel weird and I’m 50. 😳

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Titsywoo · 17/02/2022 22:34

Mine is really deep and feels funny if I stick my finger in it

My friends DD doesn't have one - she was born with her intestines on the outside and had to have surgery as a newborn.

Summerfun54321 · 17/02/2022 22:38

My friends DD doesn't have one - she was born with her intestines on the outside and had to have surgery as a newborn.

Gosh your poor friend that must have been such a worry for her.

nicky2512 · 17/02/2022 22:38

Ds had pyloric stenosis as a baby (he’s 16 now) and the incision for surgery was made just round the outside of his belly button. So his therefore has a scar almost the whole way round. Makes me feel ill. I honestly can’t look at it!

thislittlebird · 17/02/2022 22:39

Mine is a very tight inny and if I stick anything in it such as when I try to clean it with cotton wool/bud I feel physically sick. Horrible.

Jay3004 · 17/02/2022 22:40

@Lipsandlashes

I know when I was pregnant and it started to pop out a bit, that I kept pulling the dog’s hair out of it 🤢
Oh my god me too 🤢😂
Rhapus123 · 17/02/2022 22:44

Watch 18 Reasons Your Belly Button Is a Very Intriguing Body Part
It explains why some people don't have them and dolphins do!!
There is a guinness book of records holder for largest lint collection and a lady that makes tiny teddies out of lint...

You know you're going to end up watching this!

GuidingSpirit · 17/02/2022 22:45

My DD had her umbilical cord cut off at 1 day old so that a line could be inserted when she was in the NICU (sepsis). Now im wondering if a) that affects what is behind there, and b) whether she will feel anything in the future?! Confused

HeyUpits2022 · 17/02/2022 22:46

Your bum definitely falls off if you fiddle with your belly button.

My Nana wouldn't tell me fibs so it must be true because I don't fiddle and I still have my bum.

SlipperTripper · 17/02/2022 22:47

Currently, DD's foot/knee/elbow - her favourite shoving location seems to be the inside of my belly button and it wakes me go all wobbly!

The joys of the third trimester 😂

HelloBunny · 17/02/2022 22:51

If I’m in the bath with my baby, he goes straight for my belly button. Hooks his finger in & pulls...

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Snooks1971 · 17/02/2022 22:58

@HelloBunny

If I’m in the bath with my baby, he goes straight for my belly button. Hooks his finger in & pulls...
Arghh that’s made me try to pull my belly button backwards towards my back Great exercise!
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UghFletcher · 17/02/2022 22:59

I can't believe I've found other people who hate belly buttons 😬 I thought I was the only one (people think I'm weird when I tell them)

Mine freaked me out when I was pregnant with DS and it went from an innie to an outie. Had to put a plaster over it!

DropYourSword · 17/02/2022 23:00

@GuidingSpirit

My DD had her umbilical cord cut off at 1 day old so that a line could be inserted when she was in the NICU (sepsis). Now im wondering if a) that affects what is behind there, and b) whether she will feel anything in the future?! Confused
No. Won't make any difference at all.

Every baby (ok, virtually every baby apart from parents doing lotus birth) had their umbilical cord cut just after birth. Inserting a UV line won't change a thing.

Fcuk38 · 17/02/2022 23:01

Ffs I have a phobia of bbs (that’s belly buttons I have to abbreviate as I find it difficult to say ). I’m actually nauseous just writing this 🤮🤮

Mundra · 17/02/2022 23:01

If I put my finger in my navel, it makes me pee.

DS has scars on his from keyhole surgery - he has a wierd half innie/half outie.

Liervik · 17/02/2022 23:01

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Andacherryonthetop · 17/02/2022 23:03

I know someone whose baby was born with his intensities outside of his tummy. He had surgery to put them back inside that left him with no belly button. He’s ok now though but does have quite a scar.

I don’t feel anything when I touch my belly button but I don’t like it.

Really intrigued about where a dogs belly button is. I can’t see one on my dog?!

oviraptor21 · 17/02/2022 23:03

@Gardeningtipsneeded

I don’t know but poking my finger in it send a shooting sensation down to my vagina which I don’t understand at all.
Oh god this. Like being stabbed in the vagina. Horrible.
soddingkitten · 17/02/2022 23:06

@Woofins

Do dogs have bellybuttons? Like I can't see on on my dogs tummy but surely do all mammals have umbilical cords therefore bellybuttons????
I haven’t investigated too closely* but our Siamese cat has a dark patch on his cream belly where his umbilical cord would have been attached. As the gene for darker coloured fur is switched on by lower temperature at colder parts of the body (hence darker limbs and extremities) I assume he has an ‘outy’.
  • He is pretty docile but gets bitey if we fuss his tummy.
AnotherPoster · 17/02/2022 23:08

Poking inside mine has always made me feel a bit nauseous. I know that mine must contain much filth and dust because I cannot bear to poke about in it to clean it. Like an earlier poster, pregnancy made it stick out and it got a really good clean then, but that was some time ago now.... Blush

Forgothowmuchlhatehomeschoolin · 17/02/2022 23:08

@Gardeningtipsneeded

I don’t know but poking my finger in it send a shooting sensation down to my vagina which I don’t understand at all.
Haha me too - what is that?!?!
magictoadstool · 17/02/2022 23:11

Mine has a hole in it from a laparoscopic surgery that never healed. Sometimes I pull hairs out of the hole, and sometimes I have to squeeze it out as it fills with ‘stuff’. The doctors don’t want to know

HelloBunny · 17/02/2022 23:15

The fact that it’s called a button suggests that outies are more common than innies... But, they’re not?

Campervangirl · 17/02/2022 23:16

I'm not googling it, I hate belly buttons, spooky looking things, I'd never stick my finger in mine.
Otoh, interesting fact.....
I had a sticky out belly button all my life, hated it, like a little donut that you could see poking through my clothes, wouldn't ever wear a bikini when I was younger.
After I gave birth that sucker popped in and now I have an inny not an outy! 😁

HaveringWavering · 17/02/2022 23:18

I don’t mind the thing but the expression “belly button” turns my stomach (pun intended!). It’s tummy button all the way in this house.