PLACENTA BEARS: Doing It For The Kids

How fucking big is a placenta?
Also, didn't Tom Cruise eat his baby's?

Ahem, gross.

And yes, Alex, I'm pretty sure he did. O___O

how can something be so cool yet so disturbing at the same time?

What the fuck? It's like if 9 was done by David Lynch.

I've decided this is just really freaky and gross. I mean, if my mom had done this with my/her placenta I think it would creep me out a bit.

Sure, birth mother baby special blah blah... but I think most of us don't want some keepsake as graphic as this to remind us we were once inside our moms.

If you don't want to throw it away just bury it like a normal person, geese.

They're pretty fucking big. If I recall correctly, the last one I saw was about the size of a medium pizza. I wasn't looking very closely, though, so I could be wrong.

They are really cool looking while they are still "alive" and pulsing, right after birth. Not something you really want to keep around for very long though.

hahahahaha, I love Six. I love this girl!

Also, I just smooked a you know what, but still, I LOVE THIS GIRL.

I'm serial, don't have babies until you are ready and if you never want them, it's OK because women are NOT obligated to make them.

That thing is gross. And you have to push it out, after you're REALLY fucking tired of pushing. Why anyone would want to keep a souvenir of that (ya got the baby for Pete's sake!) is beyond me.

gah!

I just showed this to James and his reaction was

HAHA! UHG. GROSS.

Then my twelve year old walked over and said:

Him:"What is that?"
Me: "It's a teddy bear made out of placenta leather."
Him: "Oh, cool. Can I go to the skate park?"

the first one is fucking gross. The second one is sorta cool. Reminds me of one of those pool vacuums.

Oh, goddammit. Now I want pizza.

Looks like the gaming system in eXistenZ

Are you referring to the pictures I posted?

The first picture is of the maternal side of the placenta, the side that attaches to the uterine wall, also the side a person would cut the meaty lobes off of if they were to eat the thing.

The second picture is of the fetal side, with the umbilicus leading to the baby.

(and I got both those pictures with an image search, it didn't belong to anyone I know, by the way)

Yes I was. The second one also reminds me of the baby Aliens. (I think it's them)

Stuff like this used to make my stomach turn. I saw the placenta pictures and was not grossed out. I've become so horribly desensitized. Saw this movie last night that shows what happens to you if you die with no next of kin and how the coroner's office deals with you.

I think the only reason a placenta would gross me out would be the bio-hazard factor of it coming out of someone elses body, or if they did something like turn it into a teddy bear in a jar or something... but who would even sit around thinking about doing something that weird, sheesh.

that is absolutely disturbingly beautiful