A toy designer has created a process for people to dry and tan their own placentas to make them into one of a kind teddy bears for their children. This could be a sincere idea, a way for the child to continue her relationship with her "little sibling", as the placenta is called in several Southeast Asian cultures. It could also be wonderfully creepy, especially if you put it in a glass jar like a Mutter Museum specimen.

I watched a goat at Farm and Wilderness eating her placenta when I was little. It was mesmerizing and nauseating to watch her dutifully choke down that cold, slimy, bloody, rubbery pile of flesh and membranes. Now my opinion is: just eat it, people! You only live once! What's so disgusting about it, really! Just take one bite!