Yes, people actually do eat their baby's placenta after birth, I am not making this stuff up.  I know that this is disgusting, but I am not sure it is substantially better than the alternative presented by British designer Alex Green.  Alex Green wasn't too excited about eating his babies placenta, so he decided that the placenta would be put to much better use as a cuddly teddy bear.  Yeah, imagine your baby playing with his placenta at 2 years old.  Puts a smile on your face, doesn't it?

So, like any normal person, my initial thought was ... what in God's name caused this epiphany of creativity?  Wasn't too difficult to find ...

"I was very interested in how it was discarded unceremoniously as medical waste, why it's discarded and how we could bring it back…" said Green, who thought placentas deserved a symbolic treatment whether they're saved or not. "It was really about provoking a debate about placentas and how we treat them."Source: www.myfoxdc.com

So, there you have it, the Placenta is the new Holy body part that needs to be used.  You know, I have an idea, why not take the piece of the Penis that is cut off during circumcision,tailor it into a little hat, and put it on the placenta teddy bear?  Seems perfectly reasonable.  Personally, I would have more of an attachment to my lost flap of skin than my discarded placenta.