6 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your Placenta

We’ve already told you about all the fun things you didn’t know you could do with your uterus. But if you’re bored with those, and even if you’re moving on to that next stage in life, your time for fun hasn’t run out. If you’re about to become a Mom, you can say hello to placenta fun.

In the olden days, our grandmothers only had one option when it came to their placentas: Push them out and get rid of ‘em. But today’s new moms have a plethora of placenta options. You can eat them, of course, but it turns out there are a number of other ways to take advantage of their nutritional (and decorative) benefits.

Check out all the things you didn’t know you could do with your placenta, below*:

1. Make a placenta pizza or a placentaccino – If you ask us, eating a placenta sounds pretty gnarly, but they’re full of nutrients and hormones that seem to assist hormonal readjustment, lactation, and avoidance of postpartum depression. Two popular ways to eat it are on top of a pizza pie or in a smoothie. Can we take your order?

2. Make placenta pills – If you don’t have the stomach for the aforementioned placenta goodies, you can also get yours dehydrated, ground up, and put into capsules to be ingested without having to chew. Same nutritional benefits, much lower eewww-factor.

3. Decorate a t-shirt with placenta blood – Thingamababy’s tutorial on how to paint a placenta blood t-shirt is quite innovative. What little kid wouldn’t love some birthing-blood accented attire, after all?

4. Make a placenta teddy – Not as soft as a regular teddy bear, but so much more meaningful, this Placenta Teddy Bear from designer Alex Green was on display at last year’s Doing It For The Kids exhibition put on by (re) design. It’s made of a salted, cured placenta. Cuddly!

5. Make placenta art – “Artsy Moms” can take it to a whole new level by creating abstract art like the placenta print above. No two works will be alike.

6. Plant a Placenta Fruit Tree – Burying your placenta and planting a fruit tree over it either sounds like a beautiful symbol of life, or a complete hoax, depending on how you look at it. Whatever your ilk, Planet Green has detailed instructions, should you ever want a tree whose fruit always reminds you of the pain of childbirth.

Inhabitots via Apartment Therapy’s ohdeedoh

*The alternate title for this post was “5 Ways You Didn’t Know You Could Make Yourself Gag.” Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Oops – too late.