People get tummy tucks and such, surgeons re-position the navel. But why? What is it's use? Is it important?
2006-07-02 15:33:41 · 23 answers · asked by Lou2TUB 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Well, when you're still a fetus in your mum's womb, your belly button is the spot where your umbilical cord comes out and connects you to the placenta, which is how you get nutrients while you grow. Once you're born, the umbilical cord is cut and the remainder shrivels up and falls off. The belly button you have now is the "scar" that remains.
When people have belly buttons repositioned after surgery, it's just an aesthetic thing. You'd look really weird if your belly button was too low, too high or off-centre.
2006-07-02 15:38:32 · answer #1 · answered by Annie 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is no use for it, but as mentioned in earlier anwers, it 's how you were kept alive while growing in-utero through the umbilical cord that gave you nourishment. The remaining socket known as the belly button is God's way of reminding you about the miracle of life...and wouldn't it look really silly not to have one, since it's the only way we are used to seeing our tummy's?
2006-07-02 22:46:58 · answer #2 · answered by kate 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not important after birth. Before birth, it's how the nutrients get from the mother to the baby. Surgeons reposition it because people want to look like everyone else. They try to make the patient look as natural as possible.
2006-07-02 22:36:58 · answer #3 · answered by cucumberlarry1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once you are born it is of no use however surgeons reposition the navel because you would look very strange if it was on your side or missing altogether. It's not something you notice until it's not there..... Oh , i see Hannah has already said this.
2006-07-02 22:38:56 · answer #4 · answered by shelly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a belly button from the cord that you were feed through by your mother when you couldnt not feed or relieve your blader yourself you would be an alien from planet zula if you had no belly button.
Now why do we have cocroaches what purpose do they serve they dont kill other bugs and they dont help fertilization in plants are they the cure for cancer????????????
2006-07-02 22:39:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a leftover scar from the umbilical cord which is how you received nourishment in the womb. It was once extremely importsnt, but now you just don't want it to look funny.
2006-07-02 22:38:03 · answer #6 · answered by chilixa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it used to be where the umbilical cord was. some people like they're belly buttons. and you know i'd be a little pissed if i went to get a tummy tuck and they took out my belly button.
2006-07-02 22:37:38 · answer #7 · answered by schticklet 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is where the umbilical cord was cut when you were born. It doesn't do anything. They reposition it after surgery so that the person will look normal.
2006-07-02 22:36:16 · answer #8 · answered by SL_SF 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is no significance to having a belly button, its just the spot where our umbilical cord was. they reposition it so it looks natural and not out of place,,thats the only thing i can think of
2006-07-02 22:36:07 · answer #9 · answered by need4speed 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to collect lint after the umbilical cord is cut
2006-07-02 22:35:19 · answer #10 · answered by jdhayman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋