2006-06-26 11:02:46 · 10 answers · asked by Maribeth J 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
wow...thank you all for the responses.
2006-06-26 18:54:42 · update #1
Once you are born it has lost it's function. The umbilicus (commonly called a navel, or belly or tummy button), is essentially a scar caused at birth by the removal of the umbilical cord from a newborn baby. The scar can appear as a depression (sometimes colloquially referred to as an "innie") or as a protrusion (referred to as an "outie").
2006-06-26 11:05:31 · answer #1 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it is there not just to collect lent.......(joke)....A belly button, sometimes called a navel, is something everyone in the world has! From Alaska to Zimbabwe - and every place in between - people have belly buttons. And they're always in the same place on their bodies.
As a baby develops inside the mother, he or she floats in fluid inside the mother's womb. While the baby is in there, he or she can't breathe air or eat food. That's where the umbilical cord comes in. The umbilical cord is a flexible tube that carries oxygen and nutrients from the mother to the baby. It also carries wastes away from the baby back to the mother, so she can get rid of them. Your belly button marks the spot where your umbilical cord was once attached.
When the baby is born, he or she lets out a cry. This lets everyone know that the baby can breathe on his or her own. The baby will also soon be drinking milk and getting rid of wastes on his or her own - as anybody who has seen a dirty diaper will tell you!
The brand-new baby doesn't need an umbilical cord anymore. The doctor cuts the umbilical cord and a tiny stump is left. When this stump falls off after a few weeks, the baby is left with his or her very own baby belly button. It might be an innie or an outtie - which kind do you have?
2006-06-26 18:07:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the unbilical cord is severed at birth and tied, the healed area is the belly button, which has no purpose at all.
2006-06-26 18:06:09 · answer #3 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the place where the umbilical cord attached to you when you were growing in the womb. After birth, there is no function.
2006-06-26 18:05:28 · answer #4 · answered by teegee17 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its just a scar where your umbilical cord was. Doesn't do anything for ya, except make you look normal in a swim suit.
2006-06-26 18:05:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh it's useless, you know... all it did was provide nutrients to you through an umbilical cord while you were a fetus to help you survive.
2006-06-26 18:06:32 · answer #6 · answered by hiimben2k5 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kept you alive before birth...umbilical cord connected you to your momma at that spot.
2006-06-26 18:05:20 · answer #7 · answered by powhound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Feeding tube
2006-06-26 18:04:40 · answer #8 · answered by retyull 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's no use to it. it's just there from when they cut ur umbibical cord when ur born and that's what's left when they cut the cord.
2006-06-26 18:05:30 · answer #9 · answered by Jake K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's how your mother fed you when you were in her stomach.
2006-06-26 18:18:01 · answer #10 · answered by horselover19 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋