# break on through to the other side **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 28, 2000, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174 "2000-07-28T07:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/1 "2000-07-28T07:42:20Z")
the cord goes in my gut, at birth it will be tied. question one through question five what the fu’s on the otha side? 1. what is on the other side of my belly button? 2. what used to be back there? 3. did my heart beat while i was still getting blood from the placenta? 4. if i unravel all those little radial wrinkles in my belly button, will i deflate? 5. aren’t you glad the rhyme wasn’t ‘twelve’? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/2 "2000-07-28T08:00:13Z")
1)Scar tissue, just like the front. 2)The rest of the cord that brough nutrients to your body. 3)Not at first, but eventually it did. In the later weeks. 4)Nope 5)Ummm I dont get it… ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/3 "2000-07-28T08:03:14Z")
1. dur. but what was it (an artery?) and where did it go to in my body? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/4 "2000-07-28T08:14:53Z")
Kinda, it is like a conduit containing two arteries and a vein. They connect the baby to the mommies circulatory system and circulate oxygen and nutrients through its body. It is manly connected to the liver and kidneys I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/5 "2000-07-28T08:15:55Z")
Ooops forgot your other question… “Where did it go” Your body absorbed it on the inside, and it dried and fell off on the outside… ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/6 "2000-07-28T08:22:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \* > \*\*4) if i unravel all those little radial wrinkles in my belly button, will i deflate? \*\* You start unraveling it. The rest of us are praying fervently that you piss off like a balloon. Of course I mean that in a nice way, jb… 🙂 🙂 🙂 Yes, I AM glad it wasn’t twelve. “Man experiences explosive big bang, then deflates” ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/7 "2000-07-28T08:24:46Z")
du bist ein booger! ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/8 "2000-07-28T08:25:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Yes, I AM glad it wasn’t twelve I still don’t get it… ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/9 "2000-07-28T08:34:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \* > \*\*du bist ein booger! \*\* Hey, don’t try that Mexican talk on me. I know what it means, and I’ll have you know that no one in my family EVER did such a thing! Maybe a few hosses was stump-broke down the line, but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/10 "2000-07-28T08:40:28Z")
let’s just say that if morrison had been more obsevvive-compulsive and the original lyrics had been _try to clean, try to shelve, break on through to the other- oh my god, did i check that the oven was off **myself**?_, then we would have had to suffer through a lot of my jack-assishness. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/11 "2000-07-28T08:57:11Z")
I have always thought of you more as a Jackass concerned with quality; not a Jackass concerned with quantity. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/12 "2000-07-28T13:19:51Z")
> **[Fetus Growth Cycle Information Overview | Parents Domain](https://www.parentsdomain.com/fetus-growth-cycle-information-overview/)** > > Conception is the moment at which the sperm penetrates the ovum. Once fertilized it is called a zygote, until it reaches the uterus 3-4 days later. There is a “primitive” heart beating at six weeks. The heart is made up of autonomic cells that beat early on. The placenta begins funstioning at 5 weeks. ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/13 "2000-07-28T14:31:24Z")
Pregnant women’s navels sometimes turn completely inside-out. It looks, as Roseanne Barr put it, like a pop-up turkey thermometer. So you won’t deflate. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/14 "2000-07-28T14:41:53Z")
wow. hey, why didn’t evolution think of that? a pop-up timer! that’s so much easier to tell then ‘contractions’, or ‘cervical dilation’. man, i would love my little baby and name him “stuffing”. hopefully i would not try to eat him when i’m drunk. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/15 "2000-07-28T15:39:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bear\_Nenno \* > \*\*Kinda, it is like a conduit containing two arteries and a vein. They connect the baby to the mommies circulatory system and circulate oxygen and nutrients through its body. It is manly connected to the liver and kidneys I believe. > > Ooops forgot your other question… > > “Where did it go” > Your body absorbed it on the inside, and it dried and fell off on the outside…\*\* Well, it’s _supposed_ to get absorbed on the inside. I had an emergency laparotomy which found a Meckel’s diverticulum. A Meckel’s is a pouch on the side of the colon that is a remnant of the original umbilical cord–it ruptured and I had internal bleeding. So, the umbilical conduit might also take material from the mother to the colon. To give the baby practice, I guess. Maybe that’s where meconium comes from. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/16 "2000-07-28T15:42:43Z")
i’d always supposed meconium was digested amniotic fluid… ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/break-on-through-to-the-other-side/27174/17 "2000-07-28T15:59:36Z")
or the Zepp tribute album.