Weird things people do with their babies' placentas

Here in our part of the world, we bury our baby's placenta afterbirth and forget about it. But then we hear of the 'other things' people do with their babies' placenta and I'm like 'huh?!'.

So let's find out:

Placenta booties

Placenta Teddy bears
Here the placenta is cut in half, rubbed it with salt and left to dry before applying tannin and egg yolk to make the material soft enough to stitch. The final product comes in a glass case.

Artworks

Box it: Mums in the US have adopted the ancient Japanese tradition of ­keeping the placenta in a decorative box.

Burn it: US parents have developed a ritual of burning the umbilical cord in a ceremony to celebrate a new life.

Plant it: Some new mums plant a tree in their afterbirth which becomes a ­symbol of their child’s life as it grows.

Eat it: The placenta is iron-rich and apparently tastes like liver. Kourtney ­Kardashian is said to have scoffed hers.
 
Drink it: The placenta in whizzed up in a blender with berries.

Postpartum pills
The placenta is dried after birth, ground up and formed into nutrition ­capsules. It is quite popular with celebrities like Kim K etc and said to help speed up recovery and in battling post-natal depression.
 

The Sun

*Sincerely, I have always seen ingestion of placenta as kind of cannibalistic.