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Placenta Teddy Bear. So Snuggly!
Placenta snacking isn’t for everyone. But still … who doesn’t get a little sentimental about a good and faithful placenta?
Designer Alex Green knows how you feel, so he put together a little DIY kit so that you and the baby can treasure your physical attachment for years to come.
Making a teddy bear from a placenta really isn’t that hard, especially if you’re used to tanning and sewing human organs.
The v. cool website Inhabitots, explains how:
The placenta must be cut in half and rubbed with sea salt to cure it. After it is dried out, it is treated with an emulsifying mixture of tannin and egg yolk to make it soft and pliable. Then, you craft it into a teddy bear.
Far more green and sustainable than bronzed baby shoes, right?
Green showed off is “Twin Teddy Bear” kit at Doing It For the Kids, an exhibition of innovative sustainable toy designs at the [re]design show now in London. [re]design’s motto is “for designers who don’t want to make landfill.”
Afterlife for the afterbirth!
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Teddy Bear Stuffed With Pot Found in Toy Store | Strollerderby commented on Dec 29 09 at 11:01 amSussLW commented on Oct 01 09 at 4:18 pmAside from the fact that I find that disgusting, I do not have a soft spot for the placenta. Yes, it provides all that my baby needs right now, and I appreciate that. However, the placenta is blocking my cervix so I will need a scheduled C-section, which really does not make me happy. Grr.
diera commented on Oct 01 09 at 4:39 pmThat is. Actually. Grosser. Than the idea of eating it.
GP commented on Oct 01 09 at 5:14 pmthat’s kinda neat…I wish I would have done this instead of burying it in the yard
Marj commented on Oct 01 09 at 5:16 pmI gotta go with EW. Followed by whatever floats your boat, but it does not float mine.
NoVa Mommy commented on Oct 01 09 at 7:55 pmGross? Sure. But mostly, I’m thinking, who has time for arts and crafts when you have a newborn? I could barely manage to upload photos for email distribution–forget about basting my dried placenta with egg yolk.
cocobean commented on Oct 01 09 at 9:46 pmEWWWWWWWW!
Lee commented on Oct 01 09 at 11:48 pmIt looks like a cradle toy for Ed Gein.
Louise commented on Oct 02 09 at 12:33 pm“Making a teddy bear from a placenta really isn’t that hard, especially if you’re used to tanning and sewing human organs.”
And who isn’t, really?
I’ll add this to the rather lengthy list of “Things I *won’t* be doing when #3 comes in November.” But, you know, I’m not really into the baby book thing, either. To each their own…
TolaniLucia commented on Oct 02 09 at 1:05 pmNo. No. No. It totally looks like a cradle toy for Ed Gein.
LasVegasMama commented on Oct 02 09 at 2:33 pmHa ha on the Ed Gein comment! Classic.
Ali commented on Oct 02 09 at 4:57 pmWhat next? Will we save our uteri in glass cases when we have our hysterectomy? Proof there is a sucker born every minute.
Fal commented on Oct 11 09 at 4:12 pmWow… I’m shocked that somebody would do that though I reckon its different. I guess having a teddy made from the placenta would give you something to remember the 9months of morning sickness and aching backs but at the end of it, you get something precious. Of course, there are others who end up losing that precious joy either sometime through the pregnancy (I’ve lost three) or a stillbirth (one) and in my opinion, if I knew of the placenta-bear, I’d have got it done to remember my little girl. I now have a son who’s just turned two and another on the way.
whoa! commented on Nov 10 09 at 11:00 pmThis is perhaps the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard. I just threw up in my mouth a wee bit
Ed commented on Nov 11 09 at 1:09 pmThat thing is hideous! It looks like a teddy bear for Chucky!
Forget about clowns being scarey…this thing is what nightmares are made of!
Ed
amy commented on Nov 11 09 at 2:20 pmrequesting to save the placenta to make a “snuggly bear” should be the first sign to call cps and psych evals! OMG… disgusting… i’d hate to see what this fella does with old scabs!
pregnantJ commented on Nov 11 09 at 7:35 pmin one thought i think”gross! will it start to smell as time goes by ? will it rot?” in another thought i think “well its so tiny if it stays in that jar forever like a little trinkit i guess id consider it as a keepsake for the baby, Not a toy!”
Lorie commented on Nov 18 09 at 2:50 pmYouve got to be kidding! Who in their right mind would want that? Even worse is someone who wants to eat it; I’d have to be starving!
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