Most people have no idea what’s in an epidural.
They hear the word “relief” and stop asking questions.
What if I told you epidurals contain fentanyl?
Would you still say yes, just because your doctor told you to?
When you choose one, your baby is born under the influence of opioids, before they even take their first breath.
Would you still let the doctor inject that?
We’ve normalized drugging women in labor and calling it empowerment. But what does that actually mean for the baby?
Their first breath, first moment in the world, and they’re already exposed to drugs. Disconnected. Numb. Dazed. Is that the kind of welcome we’d consciously choose?
Birth is meant to be a moment of full presence. Full connection. Yet most babies are entering the world in a state of detachment before they’ve even opened their eyes.
Then we wonder why we’re so disconnected as a culture.
My intention isn’t to make women feel guilty. It’s to wake us up. To bring truth to the surface.
We pass on more than genetics. We pass on energy, emotion, awareness. The way a baby is born matters. It imprints them. It shapes how they experience life, safety, and love.
So I ask you, what kind of imprint are we passing on?
If we want our children to be grounded, connected, and whole, we have to give them a birth experience that reflects that.
Presence. Safety. Trust.
It starts with us.
I’m thinking about what
@jack mallers has recently spoken about in regards to the hodler’s dilemma.
This is the choice to either spend your coins to finance living, or not spend your coins and live “less” than you otherwise could. Which is why he released
@strike Lending (which I’m super excited about)
Interest rates on this lending product appear to be between 9-13%, which seems high compared to traditional lending, but if you’re a hodler, you’re not a traditional investor, so is it expensive for you?
If Bitcoin’s CAGR is between 50-60%, what’s 13% in interest?
Let’s say Bitcoin’s CAGR works its way down to 25-30%. By then, interest rates should settle between 6-9%, but let’s say 9% to stay conservative.
Still a better option than selling, creating a taxable event, and missing out on future appreciation of your Bitcoin. I think an important thing to understand is that this product is for productive individuals. If you work or have a business and can service the debt payments while living below or within your means, this is an amazing product for you.
My husband and I speak about this almost every night. We’ve completed a full tour of duty in Bitcoin (4-year cycle). In the beginning, we thought we would be offloading some to finance a better quality life once we reached this point.
But now we understand that the more we hold off on certain spending and sacrifice to live as minimally as possible now, each year that goes by, we’ll have that much more financial freedom moving forward.
Now with lending, as long as we continue to live profitably, our savings will keep growing exponentially because we won’t need to cut into 5-8% of our stack each year to cover living expenses like we thought we would.
My favorite part about this lending product from Strike, and others who will adopt this framework, is no credit check. That’s a big double bird from us to the system that tried to control us with their BS communist social credit score.
No, we will not play by your nonsensical rules. Proof of work. Bitcoin is a meritocracy. You get opportunities based on your stack and nothing else. And you grow your stack by providing value to society.
Proof of work. So excited for this bright orange future that is really starting to pick up steam.
Most people consider oil “Nature’s Liquid Gold” but for me, it’s raw, unfiltered honey 🍯 😋
Raw, unfiltered honey is much more than a natural sweetener. It's loaded with enzymes, antioxidants, and antimicrobial properties.
The enzymes and antioxidants help bolster your immune system, while its antimicrobial properties make it effective at soothing sore throats and wounds.
A lot of new faces here. So here’s what Born To Be Free is all about: 🧵
Mine and my husbands’ journey started in 2020, when the world flipped upside down.
Things didn’t make sense, so we started questioning everything.
And what we found shocked us:
Money is corrupt.
Food isn’t food.
Medicine is broken.
Education is a joke.
We’ve been lied to about almost everything.
And yeah…… our friends and family think we’re nuts 🤪
We realized… the system isn’t broken.
It was built this way.
And if we wanted to protect our family, our health, and our future,
we had to step outside of it.
So we stopped outsourcing our health.
We stopped believing the experts.
We started learning from our ancestors, our intuition, and our land.
That’s where Born To Be Free began.
We didn’t set out to sell skincare.
We set out to create a new way to live.
We’ve traveled the country shaking hands with the people behind our products, like Redbanks Beef Farm in the Shenandoah Valley.
We source our tallow regeneratively, from ranchers we know by name and who treat their cattle with dignity.
We use zero plastic.
Only ingredients your skin is compatible with and that your body actually recognizes.
Everything we make is sourced and made in America the country we live in and love
We’ve seen how much people are hurting mentally, physically, emotionally.
We want to help change the trajectory of their lives.
Skincare is just our entry point.
We also share the health and wellness practices we actually live by and can honestly say have transformed our own lives.
We believe in collaboration, not competition.
Alignment, not algorithms.
Sovereignty, not systems.
Born To Be Free isn’t just a product.
It’s a declaration.
I've been diving down the rabbit hole of Home births vs "traditional" hospital births and I can't believe the majority of women in the US are giving birth in a hospital🫠
C-sections soared from 5% in the 1900s to 32% currently
Drugs like Pitocin are a big driver, which is a synthetic version of oxytocin, the hormone your body makes to kickstart contractions.
Docs use it to speed labor or induce. About 20% of US births get it🌡️
Problem is, it’s not gentle. Studies peg a 10% risk of postpartum hemorrhage. Your uterus overworks, bleeds out after delivery, needing transfusions in severe cases.
Then there’s tachysystol, 15% of Pitocin users hit this, meaning over five contractions in 10 minutes, squeezing too hard, too fast.
That stresses the baby. 20% show distress, like heart rate dips, pushing docs to cut fast 🩺. It’s not “help”, it’s a gamble.
Epidurals pile on. They numb pain.
60% of hospital births use ‘em but 15% of moms see blood pressure tank, risking oxygen flow to the kid.
Labor slows in 20%, per ACOG data, contractions weaken, progress stalls.
Fevers hit 10%, upping infection odds, docs panic, grab the scalpel.
Why?
Time’s money, hospitals want beds free, not mom’s birthing slow. Plus, the Doctors need to make it home for dinner
Back in the 1900s, labor took days, no rush.
Now? 32% end in surgery for “slow” labor,
often just normal pace rushed by Pitocin 🌩️
Then there’s the flat-back flop.
Hospitals strap you supine, against gravity, pelvis tightens.
Studies show 30% more pain because your body fights itself.
Labor’s 25% slower, dilation drags, exhaustion sets in.
Midwives at home let you squat, stand, 25% faster births, 30% less tearing.
Hospitals are a business. It’s a profit trap, 32% cesareans prove it flops hard 💸.
Now let's talk home births with midwives
Cesarean rates plummet to 6%.
National Birth Center Study II’s 15,574 births prove it. 93% go vaginal, only 0.9% need emergency transfers 🌿
That’s 14,500 moms delivering naturally, 89% stay home.
Fetal mortality? 0.47 per 1,000.
Hospital low-risk hits 0.6 per 1,000. MANA’s 17,000 home births clock 2.06 per 1,000 neonatal deaths. 87% of vaginal births after cesarean succeed, crushing hospital’s 13.5%.
No Pitocin’s 3x rupture risk in scarred moms, no epidural’s 10% infection spike. Midwives let you squat, pelvis opens 10%, labor’s 25% faster (2-3 hours off), tearing drops 30% 🏡
Netherlands’ 20% home births? 1.8 per 1,000 mortality, US’s 1%? 3.9 per 1,000.
Don't forget mother-baby connection:
Hospital lights and noise spike cortisol more than 25%. Stress blocks oxytocin, slowing everything.
Home’s quiet keeps it low, oxytocin flows, mom and baby bond deep, skin-to-skin from the jump, breastfeeding kicks in 50% faster than hospital’s 2-hour delay 💪
Midwives are far better than being in a hospital, 12% transfers, mostly chill, safer stats, natural flow. Hospitals see you as income.
The best option in my opinion is a free birth. Hire a Doula if you’re nervous but talk about true sovereignty
You seeing this Western Woman?
