Behold, the Placenta Teddy Bear by designer Alex Green. A crafty alternative for those who don’t necessarily want to eat their baby's placenta, but want to pay their respects to the life sustaining organ by turning it into a one-of-a-kind teddy bear. Green’s ‘Twin Teddy Kit’ ‘celebrates the unity of the infant, the mother and the placenta,’ and enables preparation of the placenta so it may be transformed into a teddy bear. 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.
Anyone else kinda grossed out??
8 comments:
What will they think of next...I think this is GROSS along with being CREEPY! The placenta has already served it's purpose, it is the gift of life, but it doesn't need to keep on giving!!! Throw it away, I say!!
oh sick!!!!! Now I'm not sexist but clearly that was a man's idea.
oh my gosh that is so nasty!
I'm throwing up in my mouth.
Can you order me one? Call me and i'll send my snail mail - would love to have that in the baby's room... and have that placenta out of my freezer. Great, great idea. ;-) Bhahahahah habhahah
So very interesting! Where do you find such intriguing stuff? I like reading your blog...I tend to learn new things every time I view your blog.
Your mother told me to not look at your blog - and then procedeed to tell my husband and I about this creepy teddy - well, of course I looked. I have to agree with most of your comments - What will they think of next - why don't people with time on their hands - create something useful - like Twinkies with green filling.
Gross. Really gross. Also, I haven't read your blog in forever! I'm glad I found it again.
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