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

[Snooks1971]

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. 😳

I don’t feel tingly anywhere when I poke my belly button. I feel left out now.
Oh and DHs is rather like a dimple not a cats bum like mine.

@woofins yes dogs do, but they're a scar type line rather than a human shaped one. We've a Boxer who I delivered many years ago, he's very pink underneath and it's quite easy to spot when you look closely. I kept an eye on it after he was born because I too wondered dogs had them or if they disappeared completely!

Mine feels like there’s something solid there. I had surgery last year and a stoma fashioned next to it. They went through my belly button. A staple got left behind and was taken out weeks later. I’m convinced there’s still one in there!

I agree havering- I loathe the word 'belly'.

As a student midwife I was taught the hypogastric artery was closed off once the umbilical cord was clamped and cut. So I guess that area lies somewhere under the belly button. I get that weird pain too.

Always considered tummy to be such an “English” word, as in a proper, twee way to say it. Nobody here says tummy...

When I was a kid I thought fat people were fat because water went in through their bellybutton while they were in the bath.

Oh dear, this thread is making me feel a bit faint 🤢

This is the best thread I've read in ages. Good work.

@Diablo2

I know that if you unscrew it, your bottom falls off.

My Mum told me that, and she wouldn't lie to me, would she?

Gosh that has made me cry laugh. I love your mum.

I don't know why I clicked on this thread. I can't bear to touch mine. I don't like thinking about it either.

I also don't like thinking about knees.

@HelloBunny

Always considered tummy to be such an “English” word, as in a proper, twee way to say it. Nobody here says tummy...

Where is “here”? I’m Scottish, so it’s not an “English” thing to me. “Belly” sounds really coarse to my ears. It’s OK for aircraft and animals but not people.

I had mine pierced, it was worse than having my nipples done.

This is the type of quality MN thread that keeps me on this forum. Top notch OP!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Didiplanthis where is a horse bellybutton??

I had laparoscopic surgery last year and one port was in my belly button.

This is disgusting so if you are squeamish stop reading now.

That port got infected and I got a red lump about the size of a golf ball right underneath my belly button. It then ruptured during the night (very disgusting) and I had to go into hospital for draining it and IV antibiotics.

The doctors came daily and fiddled about for what seemed like ages while I tried not to levitate off the bed as that weird belly button feeling was times 100, plus the pain of the abscess etc. They packed it with some strange stringy stuff everyday for a couple of weeks, the last week at an outpatient clinic. It filled itself in.

All of this made me wonder why they use the belly button which seems to me would be more prone to infection. I now have a concave area under my belly button where the infection was. There was a dissolving stitch in there also.

One of the resident doctors was quite funny. It was early on so it was draining a lot. She finished the dressing, looked at me and said "well, that was fun!"

Move over Dr. Pimple Popper.

@Gardeningtipsneeded

🤣🤣 same....tickly! Lol

@Andacherryonthetop

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?!

Look for the place where all the fur goes in different directions. A whirligig thing. That's where it is on horses so probably same with dogs? Flat though not like a human one.

My belly button looks like a cave with a starfish inside. Feels weird if I poke it. If someone else pokes it I dissolve in a fit of giggles. I'm ticklish if someone touches my feet too but not if I do it.

This is my new favourite thread

Will you all hang on a minute, I'm still trying to find mine??

[quote ThePlumVan]@Didiplanthis where is a horse bellybutton??[/quote]
Underneath towards the back of the abdomen

All women that feel an electric shock sensation in the belly button are the only women who can orgasm.

All other women fake orgasms, the belly button is directly linked to the pudendal nerve which supplies nerves to the pelvis area.

And I've just made that up

Dogs belly buttons fade to a tiny scar. On my dog you can barely see it but you can feel it, I imagine most mammals are the same. My theory is that humans are different because our abdominal muscle structure is weird (in comparison) because we walk upright.

I say tummy. I might be a tad twee. You have to say belly dancing though. It's not tummy dancing. Also belly flop. It's not tummy flop.

This is a great thread. Bravo op!
I am freaked out by belly buttons. I used to have quite a nice one, even if I say so myself, but after DS2 was born my stomach stayed podgy. Now it looks like an arrow on a prisoners uniform - see diagram 😂

Dunno and don't make fun of it but in our culture they are said to balance you. There is something behind it call 'naaf' and if it moves it can make your inners go our of balance. Some women back home get it massaged to bring it back to place as if it 'drops" you can feel the pressure on your uterus. Good core exercises help to keep it in balance.