Amanda Birdsong

Christian | Educator | Wife | Mom of 3

[Amanda Birdsong @abirdsong30]

All of this!

[Hannah Strege, LCSW @HannahStrege]

If you’re going to pursue IVF, here are my BIG NOs:

✨ NO creating more embryos than you are willing to parent.

✨ NO creating embryos knowing some will be discarded.

✨ NO indefinite freezing without a plan for every embryo created.

✨ NO destroying embryos because they are “extra.”

✨ NO selecting which children deserve a chance based on preferred traits.

✨ NO anonymous egg or sperm donation that prevents children from knowing part of their biological identity.

✨ NO treating surrogacy as though the child’s relationship with the woman carrying them is irrelevant.

✨ If you already have embryos you cannot parent, consider embryo adoption.

The goal shouldn’t simply be getting a baby.

Ask what your decisions mean for every child you create.

Signed,

the frozen embryo who grew up. XO✨🤍

[Hestia, Esq @Hestia_Esq]

Everyone says that the transition to 4 kids is easier than the transition to 2 or 3

During my 4th pregnancy, I wondered how this could be true. How can you add a baby and it be less work and stress? Even with the assumption that the oldest will be aging up and be more help (still they are a net burden, at least for us, the oldest helps but is still more work than help)

Grain of salt because I’ve only had 4 kids for only a couple months now, but I think it’s like a Milo of Croton situation

Obviously 4 kids is more work than 3 kids. But the progressive overload helps you constantly get stronger. This is why Scripture says you’ll be sanctified through childbearing. You should be constantly getting stronger, better, more holy. You grow in your parenting abilities with more babies. You get better at managing your stress, managing the house, gain many skills

Also, by 4, you have zero free time. You have to just totally succumb. You aren’t one foot in the door of parenting and one foot still in your old life, like you could be when you just had 1. You become one with parenting. Want not.

[Live Action @LiveAction]

Safe, legal, and rare was always a lie.
Here are the numbers ⤵️

Generation X:
—8.7 million abortions
—Nearly one-quarter (24.88%) of the generation
—For every 3 babies born, 1 baby was aborted.

Millennials:
—24.5 million abortions
—Nearly one-third (28.31%) of the generation
—For every 2.5 babies born, 1 baby was aborted.

Generation Z:
—6.3 million abortions
—Nearly one-third (28.81%) of the generation
—For nearly every 2.5 babies born, 1 baby was aborted.

Generation Alpha:
—14.4 million abortions
—Nearly one-fifth (20%) of the generation
—For nearly every 4 babies born, 1 baby was aborted.

Generation Beta
—One million abortions (so far)
—One-fifth (22%) of the generation
—For nearly every 3.5 babies born, 1 baby was aborted.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

Childcare is work. Teaching children is work. Cooking is work. Cleaning is work. Driving people around is work. Managing schedules is work. Taking care of babies is work. Managing a household is work.

But somehow, and for some reason if we combine all of these things into just one woman, if we combine all of these jobs to one woman, to just one house, with children who live there and call her Mom, then people suddenly start asking, “What does she even do all day?”

You’d never ask this of any of those professions. It is only mothers at home that have this extra burden of proof, that somehow we need to justify extra hard that we indeed are productive members of society, that we indeed work hard, that we indeed do things all day long.

The only difference in all of this is that women at home do this work for the people they love, instead of for people who pay her, and that should make the work more valuable, not less.

[White Baby Factory @WhiteBabyFac]

When a man provides for his family and his wife stays home everyone thrives.

The children get a mother who is present, patient, and not burned out from a 9-hour workday. The wife gets to pour her energy into her home, her kids, and her marriage instead of splitting herself between a boss and a family. And the husband has a purpose that drives him to work harder than he ever would for himself alone.

This arrangement isn't oppression. It's the design that worked for centuries before feminism convinced women they were oppressed. A man who comes home to a wife who appreciates his sacrifice will do anything for his family.

But sure, let's keep pretending that two exhausted parents microwaving dinner at 8pm is "progress."

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

The gospel in four words: Jesus took my place.

The gospel in three words: Him for me.

The gospel in two words: substitutionary atonement.

The gospel in one word: Grace.

This is my favorite Charlie Kirk quote.

And a good reminder on this beautiful (maybe in some parts of the country 😂) Sunday.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Wives Across South Break Out Fall Decorations As Temperatures Briefly Dip Below 100 https://t.co/yTL6dgI2mM

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

One more time.

#Adoption and #surrogacy are not the same thing.

In both cases, the child loses one or both biological parents.

But in adoption, the adults raising the child are seeking to mend the wound. In surrogacy, the adults raising the child have inflicted the wound.

Adoption is an institution centered around the best interests of the child.

Surrogacy is a marketplace centered around the desires of adults.

In adoption, adults do hard things on behalf of children.

In surrogacy, children do hard things on behalf of adults.

One supports children’s rights.

The other violates children’s rights.

[Brandon Lansdown @BrandonLansdown]

My dear Wormwood,

You still think in terms of churches and arguments. That is why you fail. The churches can be left standing. What must be spoiled is the literature that taught the young to love the Enemy before they could define Him.

Narnia is one of the more irritating of those books. Children meet Aslan first as adventure and only later discover they have been handling Christ. That is dangerous. Direct attack only makes the stories more precious. So we do not ban them. We adapt them.

Give the Voice to a so-called celebrated actress. Leave the mane. Leave the pronouns. Then the thing that was a male Christ-supposition becomes a prestige performance. The story remains famous; the meaning becomes negotiable. In a generation the story will still be beloved, but the beloved thing will no longer be Lewis’s Lion. It will be the version that flatters the age.

That is how the Enemies literature is destroyed without the vulgarity of a bonfire. Keep the title. Change the sound. When the children hear Aslan, let them hear the present century speaking through Him. Once that habit is formed, the Enemies stories survive as brands. Their doctrine does not.

Do not call it persecution. Call it interpretation. The patients prefer that word, and it does our work admirably.

Your affectionate uncle,
SCREWTAPE

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

Our language and vocabulary around all things reproduction is so terrible once you really think about it.

Birth control. How dystopian.

Use protection. Use protection against what exactly? Who do we need to protect ourselves from? Our future children that are some sort of evil criminals? Protection? From what? Who?

Pregnancy scare. The idea that the existence of another human being is so sort of reason to be frightened

Safe sex. Aka deliberately infertile sex as if fertility is the thing that makes sex unsafe

Birth control failed. Failed to do what? Allow the body to the one of the most natural biological tasks?

Unwanted pregnancy? An action whose entire basic biological purpose is reproductive produces reproduction and we call it unwanted, an accident.

Terminate the pregnancy. Oh it’s not big deal we’re just terminating the contract a lil bit earlier ya know. Really no big deal here. Not like a human life is ended or anything really.

Products of conception. What’s that exactly?

Family planning. So funny when it usually just means we are planning on limiting any family.

And mind you. I’m also guilty of using many of these terms. They are so imbedded into our every day lives that most of us never stop to really think about what they mean. But maybe we should.

Language is not just a way to describe what we are thinking, it is also the way we think. Nearly every single word we use for fertility, for pregancy and for children are all words that point to fear, failure, accident, inconvenience. So is it really that surprising that children are now seen the way they are? Is it really that surprising that we do not cherish our children? Is it really that shocking that children have become second class citizens?

We don’t even talk about dogs like this.

[Nadia @thegenesisbl0ck]

Why do we use the phrase “sacrifice your career” when someone quits to become a mother, but never “sacrificing motherhood” when someone chooses a career?

[Ray Kump @RayKump]

Trump just announced that if the Republicans win the midterms, George R. R. Martin will release The Winds of Winter.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government https://t.co/qe16k9ucsf

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Interesting question: biblically does a woman have to stay at home or can she work. I honestly hadn’t considered this as a biblical command in terms of submission and obedience. I had always looked at this through the lens of care. Mothers have a God given instinct about how to Shepard their children. I believe that. I live that. It’s my greatest blessing. I was there for everyday. Every first and I still feel like it went by so fast it makes my chest constrict a little bit.

Looking at it from a strictly biblical command, I start in the same place I always start: Christ.

Jesus says:

“Whoever would be great among you must be your servant.”
Matthew 20:26

“The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life…”
Mark 10:45

So the starting point is self-sacrificing love that transcends external status and emphasizes faithfulness.

What does Scripture specifically teach about being a wife and mother?

1. Older women are instructed to teach younger women:

“to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind…”
Titus 2:4–5

The household matters, children matter, your husband matters. Caring faithfully for them is a biblical commandment. And one in line with the character of Christ. Christ’s understanding of greatness is serving others. Not serving self.

2. Paul repeats the household emphasis in 1 Timothy

“I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households…”
1 Timothy 5:14

3. Proverbs 31 tells us what “household-oriented” means

“She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.”
Proverbs 31:13

“She brings her food from afar… and provides food for her household.”
Proverbs 31:14–15

“She considers a field and buys it.”
Proverbs 31:16

“With the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.”
Proverbs 31:16

“She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.”
Proverbs 31:18

“She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant.”
Proverbs 31:24

“She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.”
Proverbs 31:20

“She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.”
Proverbs 31:17

“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.”
Proverbs 31:26

“She looks well to the ways of her household.”
Proverbs 31:27

So “working at home” in Titus doesn’t mean a godly wife may never perform economically productive activity extending beyond domestic chores. It does mean that her economic activity can’t cause her to abandon the people and responsibilities God has entrusted to her.

4. Christ doesn’t reduce women to domestic labor only as seen in Luke 10:39-42. Disciple of Christ comes first.

5. Luke tells us about women following Jesus, including Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Susanna in Luke 8:3 and how they had economic resources to provide for him.

6. But Christ destroys idolatry of self. My needs. My wants.

“Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”
Matthew 16:25

When a husband and children become obstacles standing between a woman and her career that’s in opposition to what Scripture teaches.

Christ is replacing self-worship with discipleship. Not necessarily working outside the home with only working inside of it.

7. Scriptures definition of what submission and obedience produces.

It’s not a woman who stays home shall be praised. Or a woman who succeeds professionally shall be praised.

“A woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.”
Proverbs 31:30

A Christian wife is first a disciple of Christ.

Christ teaches that greatness consists in service rather than status (Matthew 20:26), that He Himself is the model of self-giving love (Mark 10:45), and that following Him requires surrendering self as the ultimate principle of life (Matthew 16:24–25).

Scripture tells us love her husband and children and attend faithfully to her household (Titus 2:4–5; 1 Timothy 5:14)

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Babies are born with LOW vitamin K on purpose — it’s not a flaw. It’s God’s perfect design.

Cord blood is packed with stem cells specifically meant to repair the physical stress and micro-trauma of birth.

Low vitamin K keeps the blood naturally thin so those stem cells can flow freely and travel exactly where they’re needed — to heal tissues, support organ repair, and jumpstart the newborn’s developing systems without premature clotting getting in the way.

God made it this way so the baby’s own cord blood stem cells can circulate optimally in those critical first moments and hours.

Thin blood = maximum mobility for healing. High clotting factors right at birth would slow or trap those precious stem cells, interfering with their God-given job.

Benefits of lower vitamin K at birth (by design):
• Stem cells & cord blood: Allows unrestricted travel of hematopoietic stem cells throughout the body to repair birth trauma, reduce inflammation, and support tissue regeneration.
• Immune system: Cord blood stem cells help establish and strengthen the newborn’s naive immune system. Low vitamin K ensures they reach the bone marrow, thymus, and other sites without clotting interference.
• Neurological & organ protection: Stem cells can migrate to the brain and vital organs to protect against the oxidative stress of labor and delivery.
• Natural timing: Colostrum (that first “liquid gold”) is rich in natural vitamin K — delivered orally, slowly, and gently through breastfeeding exactly when the baby needs it. God’s perfect dose at the perfect moment.

Instead, we cut the cord early (stealing up to 30-40% of the baby’s blood volume and those vital stem cells), then inject synthetic vitamin K loaded with polysorbate 80, propylene glycol, benzyl alcohol, and aluminum — straight into a brand new immune system.

Why are we “fixing” what God already designed perfectly?

Think about it before you consent. Nature doesn’t make mistakes. God doesn’t either. Delay cord clamping. Keep the cord blood. Trust colostrum. Respect the design.

Say NO to the synthetic Vitamin K shot.

Your baby’s body was fearfully and wonderfully made. ❤️

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

Any society that leaves women feeling forced into the workforce at the expense of time with their children is one who has failed women, men and children.

And the issue isn’t just financial, it’s also cultural and moral.

Much of feminist ideology has left women feeling like actual failures if they desire and willingly choose to stay home, rather than have a career.

If families can no longer financially do it, they also can’t culturally do it either.

The structure that once created all thriving moral societies is now being called into question.

The death of the west is inherently linked to the death of the family home.

[SVX @SilentvillanX]

That ATM got me 😂😂

[Amanda Birdsong @abirdsong30]

Motherhood is the greatest gift!

[Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 @VoicesUnheard]

Moms, we need to talk. 😒

I keep seeing videos of women complaining about motherhood, and I’m just going to say it:

Some of you aren’t going to like this.

Feminism didn’t just change womanhood. It helped destroy something essential about it.

Somewhere along the way, sacrifice became oppression.

Your children need too much from you?

They’re children. That’s what they do.

Your husband needs something from you?

You’re married. Get over it.

You don’t get to do exactly what you want every minute of every day.

Welcome to being an adult.

It is not all about you.

For decades, women have been told endlessly about what we deserve, what we're owed, and what we should never have to sacrifice.

Far less is said about what we owe the people we chose to love.

Now everything is:

My happiness.
My peace.
My boundaries.
My fulfillment.
My identity.

Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.

And I don't think this “Me-First Motherhood” culture appeared out of nowhere.

For decades, our culture and institutions have increasingly treated the traditional family, and especially motherhood in the home, as something women needed to be liberated from.

Mothers entered the workforce en masse. Two incomes increasingly became a necessity rather than a luxury. Children began spending more of their waking hours in institutional care and schools. Families paid more taxes while outsourcing more of the work families once did themselves.

And at the same time, we were sold an increasingly adversarial view of men and women:

Men vs. women.
Husbands vs. wives.
Career vs. motherhood.
Independence vs. family.
Personal fulfillment vs. sacrifice.

And who loses when the family becomes weaker?

We do.

Our children do.

Because now social media is filled with women publicly complaining that their children are exhausting. That they’re “overstimulated” by them. That they desperately “need space.” That motherhood took something away from them.

Having a difficult day is one thing.

Building an identity around resenting the ordinary demands of your children is another.

Imagine growing up hearing that.

Imagine knowing your mother sees you as a burden because being your mother requires something from her.

What does that do to a child?

What happens to a generation of kids who learn not to need too much because Mom is already “overstimulated”?

Who make themselves smaller so Mom can “protect her peace”?

Who grow up believing everybody’s individual happiness comes before responsibility to the people they love?

What are we teaching those children about love?

Love isn’t always convenient.

It isn’t always pretty.

It isn’t always fulfilling.

Sometimes love requires you to get over yourself.

Motherhood requires something from you.

Marriage requires something from you.

Being an adult requires something from you.

Sometimes you come second.

We’ve become so obsessed with making sure women don’t “lose themselves” in motherhood that we never stopped to ask whether children are losing their mothers in the process.

Not physically.

Emotionally.

Because while Mom is busy protecting her peace, finding herself, choosing herself, prioritizing herself, and telling the internet how exhausting her children are…

Those kids are learning:

Don’t need too much from Mom.
Don’t bother Mom.
Don’t become another burden.

And then those children become adults.

What kind of husbands and wives will they become?

What kind of mothers and fathers?

What happens when an entire generation learns that love means prioritizing yourself until someone else's needs become inconvenient?

Maybe instead of serving a culture that continually pulls families apart, we start building our families back up.

We spend an awful lot of time talking about what motherhood costs women.

Maybe it’s time we start asking:

What is “Me-First Motherhood” costing our children?

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

Thanks to improved sanitation and nutrition, measles deaths plummeted to 0.24 per 100,000 3 years before the measles vaccine became available.