Afterbirth & Crafts: Make a Placenta Teddy Bear in Three Easy Steps!
Oct 6, 2009 | Filed Under: In the News | Tags: Fun with Placenta, Weird But True
This is NOT your mother’s teddy bear. Oh wait — yes, it is! A bear made out of your mother, that is.
According to Inhabitots, the placenta teddy bear is “a crafty alternative for those who don’t necessarily want to eat their baby’s placenta (remember the yummy-looking placenta panini?), but want to pay their respects to the life-sustaining organ,” by saving it in teddy form.
Also: a delicious chew toy for your pup.
I know the first thought that popped into your head: How in the world do I MAKE one of these cuddly suckers? So glad you asked!
Just grab that placenta, cut it in half and rub with sea salt — Yes, just like a good roast beef! — to cure it. After it is dried out, the afterbirth is treated with an emulsifying mixture of tannin and egg yolk to make it soft and pliable. Then, ta-da! You craft it into a teddy bear.
Instead of Build-a-Bear, you Birth-a-Bear!
Jeannie Anderson
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Now that’s disgusting!
October 6th, 2009 at 6:01 am -Whitney
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Ewwww
October 6th, 2009 at 6:41 am -yaya
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in one of the cultures of hawaii they plant them under a tree for good luck. so right after i gave birth the nurse had put the placenta in a tupperware and she kept trying to convince me to take it home. super disgusting. haha.
October 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pm -raincoaster
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When Karl Lagerfeld finds out about this he’ll hire hundreds of Third World women to get pregnant so he can make “Human Leather Bears”.
October 6th, 2009 at 3:34 pm -Eize
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raincoaster – his sneaky way to get the secret ingredient for his moisturizer. frankly, he should get a new recipe…
October 7th, 2009 at 7:32 am -Peta
says:
Yea…I’ll pass.
October 27th, 2009 at 2:56 pm -meredith
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Ah, raincoaster… Walmart has already hired the Chinese to mass produce.
January 8th, 2010 at 8:46 am -