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. 😳

@GuidingSpirit I know what you mean, my baby was in nicu with an umbilical line too. In my case I never even saw the umbilical cord, it was already gone when I saw him for the first time. It freaked me out when my second baby had one and it didn't fall off for the best part of a month! I think for a while my first baby's belly button did look weird but he's three and now it looks pretty normal.

Revisited this thread tonight after repainting the kitchen all day and being distracted by jumbo jets landing.

Feel very queasy reading some of the posts. Also so glad it’s not just me with belly button fears.

I’ve checked the dog - she has a completely flat one a bit like a compass

Where would I be looking on my dog?

@MojoJojo71

I don’t know what else is behind them but I know that the umbilical vein which becomes redundant after birth becomes one of the ligaments that supports the lobes of the liver and that is joined to the back of the belly button . In some severe cases of liver cirrhosis when the portal vein is compromised it can become recanalised and transport blood again. (I’m a sonographer btw not just someone obsessed with belly buttons)

Recanalised? Spontaneously or surgically. That is an interesting fact.

@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?

I was always told this too. I thought everyone was told this until I said it in a crowd at uni, every one just looked at me weird and then laughed. 🤣

I’m not sure but I have the deepest belly button of anyone I know.. currently 8 months pregnant and it’s trying so hard to be an outie but it’s still too deep and it sort of pops out when I laugh or cough or press the skin around it but still has a deep hole in the centre. I’ve never seen the end of my bellybutton 😂

I hate bellybuttons, my own creeps me out and I was petrified of it popping out during pregnancy. I hat I’ll hope it doesn’t pop out all the way but it is.. funny to play with and take photo to gross out the rest of my family

My belly button is a deep innie.
Sometimes it gets sore inside and a bit manky.
It never popped out when I was pregnant.
But I did have laparoscopic surgery through it once for an ovarian cyst that burst before it was reached.
Apparently behind mine is an abdomen full of adhesions - it's a bloody jungle in there and only intrepid explorers should even consider discovering its mysteries.

Are you supposed to clean inside your belly button?
What do you use? Cotton bud? Mop and bucket?

Spontaneously @blueshoes

It’s thought that high pressure due to portal vein hypertension forces the vessel back open again. I’ve seen it a few times in advanced cirrhosis

What determines whether you get an inny or an outy? Is it just where the cord is clamped and how it falls off?

My midwife told me an innie or outie comes from how much of the umbilical chord they cut off. So if they cut it really short your more likely to have an innie, if they leave a bit of length your more likely to have an outie

I have a proper innie its literally just a hole in my stomach whereas both my kids have big outies

Tamra from the real housewives of Orange County doesn't have one!
(I imagine through tummy tucks maybe)
Looks very freaky, even though we don't need them once we're born, we sure look strange without them, like mens nipples, no use at all but imagine chests without them?
Odd

I have no clue but when a Dr examines my abdomen it feels like - something like a tube- is being pressed into my torso. Not painful and nothing wrong, just a really weird sensation.

All a bit grim really.

@Bajezzeuz

What determines whether you get an inny or an outy? Is it just where the cord is clamped and how it falls off?

My midwife told me an innie or outie comes from how much of the umbilical chord they cut off. So if they cut it really short your more likely to have an innie, if they leave a bit of length your more likely to have an outie

I have a proper innie its literally just a hole in my stomach whereas both my kids have big outies

That makes sense!

@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.

I thought it was just me!!

I had two umbilical hernia operations as a baby (first surgery failed) so mine is a bit of a mess. No idea what's going on inside!

As I said earlier, I had a tummy tuck and the surgeon actually left my bellybutton and cut around it. I can still see a slight scaring around it. I'm mystified as to why it got infected though.

@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????

Haven't RTFT so maybe someone has answered already, but yes animals have an umbilicus (what our belly button is: the point where the umbilical cord attaches to your body before birth). However they don't have "innies" like people do; their umbilicus is just like a little bump in the skin on the middle of the belly. It's not too hard to find on most dogs!

Although this is a fact I've known for many years, I've never thought to question why animals don't get innies... Am now wondering WHY