Actually, you are correct, having checked, you are correct; though he is an Invitro, he does have a navel on the back of his neck. I’d forgotten that detail.
Ah man, I figured that was a reference I was missing but a quick search didn’t yield anything. Is accidentally technically correct the new best type of correct?
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When I lived in NYC for a couple of years, my navel turned into an outie. When I moved back to where I was born & grew up, it returned to an innie after a few months. Weird! Anybody else ever experienced such a switch?
As a man who is five inches taller than my father but shares the same inseam measurement, colour me intrigued. (I already frequently wear high-waist pants and crop tops, so I’ve got that covered.) 
Ummm, an innie or an outie has nothing to do with how the doctor cuts and clamps the umbilical cord. Umbilical cords don’t get knotted by a doctor (except in the sense that they can be tied off, like a tourniquet), and the stump falls off after a couple week, leaving behind scar tissue that was never touched by the doctor. An outie is usually caused by a minor hernia behind the scar.
I’m sure you know this, and I wouldn’t bother saying anything, except my own mother, after the birth of our first child, who had a very prominent, extended herniated bellybutton,* said “boy, the doctor sure tied that belly button poorly!”
I looked at her and was like, “you had three kids, how do you not know how this works?” and she just said “oh, I don’t think I paid attention, and that was a long time ago.”
*It was super cute, when she cried it would puff up and turn huge. It shriveled away after about eight months, and now is just an innie.
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I was thinking of one for my forehead.
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