Hi everybody, brand new to the chat, super excited to be here.

Of course I do. Zebra is my favorite.

One of these days I want to do the call in show, but I always have to put kids to bed.

I could buy so many pens...

I think the best nick name for Pete is Booty Dredge. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on yet.

We should just annex Mexico. Should have done it a century ago.

If we had done it a century ago it wouldn't even be Mexico. Most of the current Western US used to be Mexico.

We just didn't finish the job.

@McFancy possibly, but Texas, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and California were successfully carved out of Mexico.

Hello everybody!

Blonde, don't get the epidural! Have your baby the old fashioned way at home. My wife just had our 6th kid, four of which were born at home. It's way better.

@Big T because the environment is more relaxed, it costs less money, and you aren't forced to do procedures you don't want to do in the course of having your kid in order to accommodate the hospital's convenience.

The female body was built to be able to have babies. If everybody is healthy you don't need all the medical interventions. It's not a disease.

I've experienced both, home birth is better. Have you experienced both?

Obviously not everybody can do it. If you have health problems, then you should go to a hospital. Otherwise you're over paying and getting unnecessary treatments.

Guys, just do some research. This is not as crazy as you think it is. We've all been conditioned to think we need doctors for this when it's not strictly necessary.

When a hospital indices labor on an otherwise healthy woman just to free up the hospital bed, then had to perform a c-section because they broke her water, that isn't safer. Hospitals do a lot of procedures just in case that aren't necessary which can precipitate more complications.

Every procedure has risks too.

If they break your water to move things along, you have 4 hours, then they have to c-section or risk infection. If after a certain number of hours you aren't dialating enough they will either send you home or dose your and break your water.

They won't just let you sit there all day.

Citation needed that it's safer.

When, which rates? Was it because of modern sanitation or hospitals?

Just ran out of troll food.

Forgot to mention on the call: Epstein didn't kill himself.