Researchers at the Karolinska Institute put newborns face down on their mothers' bare stomachs after delivery and filmed what happened. Nobody helped. Within the hour, most of them had hauled themselves up the body, found the nipple, and started to feed.
The sequence turned out to be the same across every baby they watched, and it has since been documented in Sweden, Italy, Japan and the United States. Nine stages, always in the same order: a cry at birth, then stillness, waking, movement and a rest. Then crawling, using the legs to push against the mother's abdomen. Then mouthing and touching the breast, then feeding, then sleep.
The whole hour counts, resting stages included, which means a newborn who looks like he has given up is simply between steps and will start again.
None of this is learned. A baby in the womb has nothing to latch onto and no rehearsal. The equipment arrives assembled, which is ordinary in mammals and quietly astonishing in a species whose infants cannot hold up their own heads.
The finding changed delivery room practice, because hospitals had been taking babies away for weighing and cleaning during exactly that window. Later work found labour medication and separation both disrupt the sequence. Babies who miss it struggle more with feeding afterward.
An infant less than sixty minutes old, unable to see much beyond the length of an arm, knows where to go.
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Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.
Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.
Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.
Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.
Watch the whole thing.
Democrat and Presbyterian seminarian James Talarico has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.
Here are some of his beliefs:
- Thinks illegal immigrant children are more patriotic than American children.
- Thinks the Torah tells you how to give an abortion.
- Thinks the trans community needs abortion too.
- Think there are 6 genders.
- Thinks God is “nonbinary.”
- Thinks the Bible supports gay marriage.
- Thinks Jesus supported abortion because he talked to and was kind to women.
- Thinks the story of Mary's Annunciation is proof that God supports abortion.
“If the world were governed by Islamic principles, the Epstein files wouldn’t exist…” UMMM, BECAUSE YOU’D MAKE EPSTEIN A PROPHET ALONGSIDE MUHAMMAD WHO WAS ALSO A CHILD ABUSER.
If there’s something to learn from the Epstein files, it’s that you ought to be GRATEFUL for Christian civilisation - because the only reason you are rightfully disgusted at p*dophilia and child trafficking - is because of Christianity.
Morality is not self evident. It’s not instinctual. That’s why disgust towards Epstein’s behaviour isn’t universal across history and culture… In many parts of the world today, child marriage, p*dophilia is believed to be totally moral!
Morality can only be given to us by the GOD who is the very source of goodness himself.
So if you were repulsed this week by the Epstein files, you owe God thanks for allowing you to be born in a nation that is shaped by the morality we get from the Bible!
🚨 California is the breeding ground for voter fraud in America, as millions of people vote with no ID, month-long election processes, inaccurate voter rolls, dead people caught voting, even a dog successfully registered to vote, and voter verification is all based on your signature — not who you actually are.
In this video, I go to locations from California’s public voter rolls from the Secretary of State, and not a single location could verify the voter rolls.
- Irregularities in voter numbers per location
- 30+ people registered to one mail store
- Voters inaccurately aged at 125 years old
Without any voter ID and negligence from the state government to update their voter rolls, California’s one-party state has created a complex system where fraud is inevitable in their voting process. If you appreciate this video give it a like and share it around!
I second Mike Rowe’s recommendation that you watch this brief video. I am astonished by the number of professing Christians who are processing the shooting of Alex Pretti through a framework that’s simply disconnected from reality.
Law enforcement officers are not omniscient, and it’s irrational and cruel to expect that they can respond in an insanely chaotic situation as though they are. That’s why citizens should understand both their rights and responsibilities, so these tragic situations will be avoided.
130 schools said no.
He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway.
Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami.
He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed.
So did FIU.
So did FAU.
So did everyone else.
At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs.
Not one FBS offer.
His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path.
Everyone told him to be “realistic.”
“Know your place.”
“Be grateful.”
He didn’t listen.
Because Mendoza understood something most people miss:
The worst outcome isn’t failing.
It’s never getting the chance to try.
Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang.
Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools.
He took it.
He arrived as the third-string quarterback.
Spent a year on the scout team.
Lost his first four starts.
Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line.
Still got up. Every time.
Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him.
So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes.
He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history.
People laughed.
“Career suicide.”
“Graveyard program.”
“Nobody wins there.”
One coach told him something different:
“I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.”
That was enough.
Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football.
His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years.
Before every snap, he thought of her.
“My mother is my why.”
Indiana went 16–0.
Beat six Top-10 teams.
Won their first Big Ten title since 1945.
Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns.
Won the Heisman—first in school history.
First Cuban-American to ever do it.
Then came the title game.
Miami. Near his hometown.
Fourth-and-4. Season on the line.
Quarterback draw.
The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone.
Game over.
Indiana—national champions.
The losingest program became the best team in America.
All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end.
Rankings don’t decide your ceiling.
Gatekeepers don’t write your ending.
Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point.
Sometimes all you need is one shot…
and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Don’t quit.
Credit: Barclay Mullins
Dear California Voter:
Proposition 50 is a Trojan horse that shifts power from you to the political insiders of Sacramento and D.C.
Right now, our independent citizens’ commission created competitive districts, so candidates must earn your vote and answer to you.
Prop 50 destroys that. It replaces competition with rigged “safe seats”, insulating incumbents from accountability.
If Prop 50 passes, your representatives won’t be listening to families in California; they’ll be listening to the lobbyists who fly them overseas, wine and dine them, and tell them how to vote.
Don’t let D.C. special interests, already pouring millions into this scam, erase your voice.
Share if you are voting NO on Prop 50.
NEW: Father of 22-year-old woman who was brutally killed by a career criminal, absolutely unleashes during a House hearing against soft-on-crime policies.
"[He] dragged her out of bed naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head ... BANG! Dead. Gone."
"Why? Because Alexander Davante Dickey, who was arrested 39 godd*mn times, 25 felonies, was on the street..."
Logan Federico was visiting friends at the University of South Carolina on May 3 when career criminal Alexander Dickey, 30, broke in and shot her before stealing her credit cards and going on a shopping spree.
Dickey had 39 previous arrests and 25 felonies.
Everyone responsible for keeping this man on the streets should be thrown in prison.
@Protestia Our Elders just voted to specifically designate our CP funding and circumvent our State Convention. Will the Executive Committee honor our the designated giving if we send the check to them? Dr Iorg’s message only reaffirms our decision.
Unprecedented days? No Humanity has been here before. Can only say with confidence - God’s in control. He has a plan in all this. He uses even evil for His sovereign purposes. The cross speaks volumes in this. I grieve for his beautiful family who has suffered great loss