In praise of Belly Buttons

[Voice for Peace]

"All placental mammals have a navel, and it is quite conspicuous in humans."

I was going to post some pictures, but after googling images of belly
buttons I lost my affection for navel gazing.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Let the innie vs outie wars begin... n/t

[cui bono]

2. My nephew's belly button was a perfect spiral for a long time.

I wish I had taken a really nice, artistic photo of it. It's not like that anymore.

[rocktivity]

4. Actually, you CAN be born without a navel

Strange but true: Babies born with no belly button

Early in pregnancy, the umbilical cord is attached to the baby internally, not externally. Around the 11th week, the abdominal wall should seal off the intestines, leaving just a small hole for the umbilical cord. Later, the abdominal muscles should grow together, sealing it off entirely and creating what we call the belly button.

An omphalocele occurs when this process doesn't happen the way it's supposed to. In contrast with gastroschisis, abdominal organs may protrude in addition to the intestines, and whatever protrudes is encased in a lining. "Imagine a piece of cloth with a big hole in it," Qureshi says, "and then imagine putting a sock through the hole. That sock is the lining, and the intestines [and other organs] are inside the sock."

Doctors repair the omphalecele surgically or, in some cases, using a technique called "painting," in which the lining is dried off with betadyne or a similar material, allowing the skin to grow over it. This is usually followed up with surgery to repair the muscle when the child is a little older. "Babies with omphaloceles definitely do not have belly buttons, so generally we try to fashion something to give the appearance of one," says Timmapuri...

Therefore, while all navels are bellybuttons, not all bellybuttons are navels.


rocktivity (split innie)

P.S. There happens to be a very successful fashion model with this condition -- her belly buttons have to be Photoshopped in!

P.P.S. Don't throw away your extra bellybuttons -- put them in the navel reserve!

[Voice for Peace]

7. you win the thread for the extra bellybuttons suggestion.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Don't sell navel gazing short, navels are profound marked connections to our mothers, their mothers

and their mothers before them all the way back to the first severed umbilical cord.

They are scars of our eternal history, a reminder that we're all connected as a matter of coming into this world and with each other.


Thanks for the thread, Voice for Peace.

[Voice for Peace]

13. That is a fine and commendable post.

I regret googling "belly button" images because I now have a horrid
mental picture. Don't do it.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Just always strive to remember this.

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, just don't pick your friend's nose.

Perhaps that will help you get the image of the belly buttons out of your head.

[Voice for Peace]

16. ack, now I have a disturbing image in both sides of my brain

[NightWatcher]

6. Quick, go look at old paintings of Adam & Eve

Why are they depicted with belly buttons?



(Sent from phone, too lazy to find pics and post)

[Voice for Peace]

10. aha.. well, I suspect they were photoshopped in, after they had kids

so the boys would look more like their mom & dad, who were not of woman born.

[NightWatcher]

12. When peddling bullshit, it's the little details that kill you

Nice find with the pics.

[Voice for Peace]

14. when I googled Adam and Eve Bellybuttons I got "About 32,800 results (0.39 seconds)"

Most of them seem to be posing the question as to whether Adam
and Eve had bellybuttons, and if so, why?

You are absolutely right, it's the small overlooked details that trip you up.
But I am guessing there are at least 32.,800 people who question the tale.

[rug]

8. I cut my daughter's cord. It was so rubbery.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. indeed. You know that little part after the clamp that dries up and falls off?

Okay, so one day I'm changing a diaper and am like "hey, it's gone... Where'd it go?" Oh well. Looked around for a while, then sort of forgot about it...

Until a few days later, unloading the washing machine, and I'm all what? No one eats pork rinds in this family, what the.... Oh man ewwwwwwwww.

[Voice for Peace]

20. You should have considered it might have enrolled in the Navel Academy

where rubbery cords learn to become navels.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. Half the time I can't even find my Dinghy

....what?

[Voice for Peace]

38. have you looked in the Otherlands?

[Warren DeMontague]

40. you mean discussionist?

or the lounge?

[Voice for Peace]

43. I meant the Otherlands, where lost dinghies are found, sometimes, but not often.

[rug]

27. We become such sentimentalists when we become fathers.

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Nah. I threw that thing out.

I'm all for baby books, but... really.

[rug]

35. I shouldn't tell you this but

I have in my sock drawer my daughter's first diaper. All dried out now.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. You're right.

You shouldn't have told me that.

[rug]

39. Don't ask me about their teeth.

[bobduca]

9. But what about the platypi ?!?!?

"Platypus Enjoys Getting Its Belly Rubbed"
http://cheezburger.com/7856740352

[Voice for Peace]

11. ohhhh sorry platypi

next thread: In Praise of Platypies and other Mammals of Egg Hatched.

[libodem]

32. Oh, the fur and feathers don't mix escapades

My dad,.liked to argue religion with a preacher who used to come by and visit him. They once had the duck bill argument.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. I myself am a huge fan of the platypus.

[Voice for Peace]

28. now I am a fan of the pppppppplatypus song too.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Hello, sailor

[Voice for Peace]

19. in praise of Naval?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. Does God have a belly button? If so, why?

How to get a glare from the priest.

[libodem]

25. Of courrrrse

You've heard it before:"Holy Mother of God".

[Voice for Peace]

29. Is the Holy Mother of God Jesus' grandmother?

or is it a case of

"
an old fella up the road told my husband that we should not casterate the new calf cause when he is around 9months old her will have her pregnant again...are there any issues with a male calf getting his mother pregnant??

if he was to impregnate her and she fell preg it would only be 9months from her birthing him..is that too close between pregnancies?
thanks for any help

"

[XRubicon]

23. What was that? Did you know *my* belly button is an inney?

*I* was born with the best belly button. *I* have scheduled a photo shoot, *I* will post the picture later.

[Voice for Peace]

30. There have been rumors swirling about your bellybutton, and I was hoping you would post some pics.

[Warren DeMontague]

41. rumors... I think that may just be lint

[Voice for Peace]

42. thanks for several laughs so far today, in addition to a little head scratching

[Warren DeMontague]

44. Sorry. I'm usually not this non-linear

[Voice for Peace]

45. That's about right, for today, although everything may change with this Super Moon.

In his book The Secret Life, Dalí wrote teasingly of his demand to know why, when he asked for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, he was never presented with a boiled telephone.

[Warren DeMontague]

46. I like Super Moon's girlfriend

You know, Lois Lune.

[Voice for Peace]

47. stop it you are killing me

:diedlaughing:

[libodem]

24. Here is my best bellybutton meme

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[Voice for Peace]

31. they simply were not of woman born, nor ripp'd untimely from Her womb,

nor was there a Navel Reserve at that time,
so bellybuttons could not possibly have been available.

[Tetris_Iguana]

26. Get Thee to the Greatest Page!

After all, we'd be nowhere without them.

[Solly Mack]

36. I like belly buttons.

[kentauros]

48. For some odd reason,

djinn don't have belly buttons, either:

[Voice for Peace]

49. curious and curiouser.

<-- (my vision these days)