Can a belly button come undone? There's a reason why there's such an expression

You may have heard as a child that carrying heavy objects can cause your belly button to come undone.

Agree, it would be interesting to know whether such an event is possible in real life, or whether the untied belly button exists only in words.

Where does the expression about an untied navel come from?

In fact, the “saying”, if you can call it that, about an untied navel and weights did not just appear out of nowhere – many years ago it was used to describe an umbilical (or external) hernia.

The fact is that in the navel area there are weak muscles of the abdominal wall. Their edges can diverge, thereby freeing up space for a hernia.

It is believed that such a problem, among other things, arises due to the lifting of weights by a person who does not pay enough attention to physical activity and, accordingly, whose muscles do not work well.

When someone lifts heavy objects, increased pressure is created in the abdominal cavity, which causes a hernia to appear.

Can a belly button really come undone?

If we talk about those people who live in the present time, then no, such a situation is excluded, since after the birth of a baby the umbilical cord is not tied, but clamped and cut.

In the past, the umbilical cord could actually come undone, causing bleeding because it was connected to the baby's arteries. However, such events were extremely rare.

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