PLACENTAS are the topic, the afterbirth of child birth. This is an Ethic Soup follow-up to the post "Don't Eat Your Placenta: Make a Placenta Teddy Bear -- Ewww, Cuddlelicious."
That post discusses the ways American parents are using their baby's placenta -- from eating it or burying it to making a toy teddy bear out of it.
It seems like there is a significant need for symbolic gestures involving the afterbirth. However, you don't really have to swallow it or force your child to view it, let alone play with it.
If you can crochet, or one of your relatives likes to do so, you might want a pattern for a crocheted woman giving birth -- with detachable placenta and umbilical cord. Hey, it's educational!
There's a new blog called Regretsy that features stuff from the craft site Etsy "that's just too horrible for words -- until now," says the Wall Street Journal blog Speakeasy.
The Regretsy site was just launched a week ago, by an anonymous too-scared-to-reveal-her-real-name "Helen Killer," who comments on the Childbirth Education Doll Pattern:
"I'm sorry, but this is terrifying. You want to give this to a child? I'm a grown woman and I want to lock myself in the laundry room. Seriously, when you're following a pattern to crochet a placenta, you need a time out. Put this whole thing in the trash and go to Toys 'R Us. Your kid is going to grow up to hate you anyway. Don't rush it."
I'm scared to know what Ms. Killer would say about the Placenta Toy Teddy Bear.
I admit here that I am also the artist who made the wonderful sculpture/crochet art piece, "Over-Protective Mother," pictured below.
Art-humor, like blog-humor, is calorically high when eaten whole, similar to the placenta; but absolutely necessary.
TO READ "DON'T EAT YOUR PLACENTA: MAKE A PLACENTA TEDDY BEAR -- EWWWW CUDDLELICIOUS" CLICK HERE.
by Sharon McEachern
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