While your eyelashes are protecting your eyes, your lungs are letting you breathe, and virtually every other part of your body—inside and out—is performing its own relatively well-known task, your belly button is just sitting there collecting lint. And while it’s true that your navel served its most important purpose before you were born, it’s not totally useless now back when you were a fetus, your belly button was more of a belly portal: Your umbilical cord extended from it and connected you to the placenta on your mother’s uterine wall. That way, the placenta could channel nutrients and oxygen to you through the cord, and you could send back waste.

Your umbilical cord was cut when you were born, creating a tiny bulge that left behind some scar tissue after it healed. That scar tissue is your belly button, navel, or umbilicus. Though you may have heard that the shape of your belly button is a direct result of the scissor skills of the doctor who delivered you, that’s not true. Dr. Dan Polk, a neonatologist in the Chicago area, told the Chicago Tribune that a belly button's shape “has to do with how much baby skin leads onto the umbilical cord from the baby’s body. Less skin makes an innie; more skin makes an outie.” About 90 percent of people have innies.

Regardless of how your belly button looks, you probably don’t use it on a daily basis. However, if you’ve studied anatomy, medicine, or a related field, you might recognize it as the central point by which the abdomen is divided into the following quadrants: right upper, left upper, right lower, and left lower. Another way of classifying that area is into nine regions—including the hypochondriac, lumbar, iliac, epigastric, and hypogastric regions—with the umbilical region at the very center.

Your belly button can also serve as the opening for laparoscopic surgery, which can save you from having a scar elsewhere on your abdomen.
The navel is a great central landmark outside of medicine, too. If you’ve taken yoga or Pilates classes, you may have heard it referred to as the center of balance or center of gravity. Because it sits right on top of your abdominal muscles, your belly button is an easy marker for your instructor to mention when they want you to access your core, which helps you balance.

owk...also one of the hardest part of the body to be washed clean

Interesting...

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Body shots.

But why he be say for our family we get big belly button

Its for licking-up during sex

It indicates where to start licking from (Upwards or Downwards)

A serving plate also as that's the only place that can hold content when lying flat. You can pour icecream or anything there and lick up to any destination.

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seriously, my navel as at now is just for chakra things?

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Where food passes from mother's belly to the offspring...

Na there work finish for your body..


You can do surgery to close up completely...

Some plastic surgeon sometimes use it as part way to inflate ladies bobes...

Some people get sexually aroused when tickled there (abnormal) but not me..

Belly button is the confluence centre for the small and large intestine ..........

It's a reset button... Like now when you eat and don't like what you ate, press it once then you'll vomit everything you've eaten but most people don't like to vomit so they don't use, that's why it looks as if the thing is just there for fancy....

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I'd like to know too. So far only one useful answer

My daughter asked me this exact question yesterday and like any mum without answers, I told her to stop disturbing me

The answer would have confused the he'll out of her, she'll figure it out as she grows older

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It's d unhealable scare left after the umbilical cord is cut from d belle of a child.

It's only useful to a fetus, after child birth is useless.

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dominique:
My daughter asked me this exact question yesterday and like any mum without answers, I told her to stop disturbing me

The answer would have confused the he'll out of her, she'll figure it out as she grows older

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Great mom

its to recall ur spirit whenever u are getting lost,

just one press, and u will be back

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Nairaland is becoming interesting and educative. please keep it up. enough of BBNaija things that doesnt move us forward

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