Placenta Piece
What exactly do you do with a handcrafted placenta? Do you leave it out on the coffee table? Do you put it in a shadowbox? Do you spray Endust on it and run it over the piano? I mean you can’t even really play with it. At least put some googly eyes on it. Then you can put it in a tree on Halloween.
October 6, 2009 at 11:19 am
please tell me why someone would make something like this and even worse why someone would buy it? the shop has actually sold one ?!?
October 6, 2009 at 11:47 am
Tom Cruise bought it — he said it was delicious!
October 6, 2009 at 4:55 pm
huh?
This world is full of freakin weirdos
I can’t imagine why someone would want to make this – and what if someone actually bought it! 17USD???? Fark me!
But these freaks do fulfil one important purpose – they provide hours of endless amusement to boring non-weird people like me.
October 6, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Oh my gosh they’re so right! Placentas are “uniquely lumpy!” I never could come up with the right words to describe it, but then I guess that’s why they’re the artists and I’m not.
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October 7, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Ok maybe this isn’t the point but that doesn’t even look like a placenta. Not at all.
Shouldn’t it at least look like a placenta?
Placentas are more blue, and darker red.
But apparently you use this if your religious or personal beliefs require that you have a ceremony with the placenta (burial, etc) but yours was discarded.
This is a placenta.
October 7, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Okay so I’m a home birthin’, midwife-friendly, hippie chick who’s a L&D nurse. Believe me when I say I’ve seen a lot of placentas in my day. First of all, it looks nothing like a placenta, and secondly… WTF??
October 7, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I don’t know what any of those words mean…
November 3, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I have been laughing for the last hour at the ridiculous listings! But in defense of this one, this is GREAT for childbirth educators and doulas!!!!! It actually is a really useful thing!!!
November 11, 2009 at 7:34 pm
SHOW IT IN A ROOM! SHOW IT IN A ROOM!
November 23, 2009 at 6:35 pm
It hurts my self esteem just a little bit that this listing is one of the number one referring links to my store. WTF?
Couldn’t I at least have been associated with the butt shield necklace or one of the disembodied dead animals? Hell, I’d settle for a fairy affiliation at this juncture.
April 20, 2010 at 4:27 am
Heya all
Unlike almost every commenter here – I actually bought one of these. I also have a placenta in my freezer to compare it to – thus, voice of authority!
This does actually look like a placenta – it’s just not hyper realistic, but since when was that the point of anything anyway?
I understand this item might always alienate people, but for the people who WILL buy it, it really has a very special purpose.
April 20, 2010 at 4:34 am
Sometimes a birth takes more than we’d expect, and so the rituals for grief are important. Burying a placenta from which a new tree or flower can grow is really healing. Seeing something grow and thrive when there is no other way to mark time for a person, is important. Sometimes it just to joyfully mark their existance. The people who buy these have genuine & smart reasons
Placentas have huge social/cultural significance world wide. This just ensure access when/if circumstance does not.
December 10, 2010 at 11:36 am
I think it looks like an imitation of a well marbled dry aged ribeye. So fancy restaurants may be interested in purchasing these for at-the-table presentations, rather than dragging the real bloodied steaks (how unsanitary!) across the dining room.