silent birth!!...that's a man idea!!!! Poor Kathy, what will happen to her if she makes sound!?

This is weird.

I think Katie should, very quickly while she still has the chance, murder Tom in his sleep and flee...flee into the night!

ooohhhh Xenu ooohhh Xenu...where are you

What a moron! Who can be silent when a watermelon is squeezed out an opening the size of a peanut?? Come on ppl!!

Right, and when she hits transition and starts screaming like a banshee while hanging from the chandalier, we'll see how this wack-a-doodle idea holds up. And lets not forget the superhuman strength that occurs... maybe she'll grab Tom around the neck and not let go.....

I hope that she's also ready to be silent FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE! What a band of weirdos. Even if she could speak, I doubt she's got an original thought left.

I think it's pretty funny that she has an Oral fixation with anything that resembles Tom's penis.
Kate, it's not him, get the fucking pen out of your mouth and write an apology to the world for being such a complete whipped scientology dumbass!!!!!!!!!!

I really don't understand why being totally silent is so important. I've heard about such things taking place in manhood ceremonies in various cultures of the world (like they would be circumcised at age 15 and if they made noise, they weren't considered real men), but that's with GUYS. Every culture I've ever studied allows women to make noise during childbirth. Scientology sucks (to state the obvious).

They also discourage c-sections even if the mother or baby are in trouble. B/c, the wacko's say, that c-section babies have lower IQ's. I think believing the crazy teachings of L Ron also lowers your IQ.

I've had natural childbirth and if some man was standing next to me telling me no screaming and no epidural, I would have pulled a Hannibal Lector and ripped his nose off with my teeth. See if you can be silent now, asshole! Why don't they pull an 8 pound turd out of Tom Cruise's ass and see if he can be silent.

Let's hope an alien baby doesn't pop out!! If I ever saw Cruise I'd tell him that his new kid is really the reincarnated soul of Lord Xenu. Then he'd probably sue me. XD

The whole idea of a silent birth is that they believe that the baby should enter the world free with a clean slate and that any words or noises will negatively impact the baby.

Anyway, I hope she suffers and that the alien's head is so big that she tears. Let's see Dr. Tom try to do an episiotomy. Oops, no pain meds for that Katie! Then I hope she gets severe postpartum depression.

#9- As loose as Tom Cruise's ass is, they could probably pull a twenty pound turd out without him noticing.

I seriously doubt that any woman has been silent while giving birth, especially without the epidural. Ouch.

More and More like Rosemary's Baby everyday.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Scientologist-John-Travolta-Recommends-Unnatural-Birth-Behavior-For-Katie-Holmes-10030.shtml
it just gets weirdier and weirdier. They also tell them to stay away from the baby for a few days after.
#9 I too had NCB (not by choice) and will NEVER do that again. Stay quiet through that?? Maybe they should pull the 8lb turd out of TC at the same time Katie is going through labor. Hey, what's fair is fair.

Anyone else hear the names of Scientologists like John Travolta and Kelly Preston, Kirstie Alley, Leah Remini, Jenna Elfman and immediately think "CRAZY!" and have no desire to ever watch anything they are in again?

14. Thanks for the link.
Medical science [uhm,and a little freaking LOGIC] once again proves that Scientology is one step away from making massive purchases of sneakers and having a punch party.

Scientology sounds like it's even better than Kaballah. Where do I sign up and how soon can I mentally liquify, I mean, baptize my children???

Can Scientology get more fucked up?

Answer: no

I love it how they want you to stay away from the baby for days. After birth, a mother has the overwhelming urge to see her baby and to touch the baby. Katie Holmes needs her head examined. She has been completely brainwashed. And Tom is so controlling. That's probably why he found someone so much younger than him. I hope Katie tells them all to fuck off and screams as loud as she can.

#7 - Tom has a penis?

9. They also discourage c-sections even if the mother or baby are in trouble. B/c, the wacko's say, that c-section babies have lower IQ's. I think believing the crazy teachings of L Ron also lowers your IQ.

Indeed! I had a C-secction becasue we both me and my baby were in danger and my son has now one of the highest grades of his class (he he). I think this Ron guy is a case of being a total ignorant and talk about what you don't know.

I really hope Katie doesn't have any problems with her baby nor her health after giving birth, because if she ends up killing them both baby and Tom, it won't be Ron nor Tom to blame but herself, for believing all that crap. She is not a little girl, after all: she is a 27 years old woman.

#21 I also had a c-section with my 2nd baby who is now 5 months old. She was breech and had to be delivered via c-section. I believe Scientologists don't do ultrasounds either, so who knows what's happening in there. I hope for the baby's sake nothing goes terribly wrong.

These people have lots their ever-lovin' minds.

"Stay away" from the baby for a couple of days?

WHAT THE F*CK?

The sad truth is, this baby is likely to be a monster. I am afraid... very afraid of what this offspring might be like. The Jolie-Pitt baby, on the other hand, is likely to be the Messiah of beautiful kids...

LaLa
He did, I guess, until scientology had Katie cut it off. No worries though, They are supposed to re-attach it on Mission Imposible 3!!!!
Here's the catch though, he gets no pain medication and he's not aloud to scream when they sew it back on.....

I know she's a lousy actress, but cue cards for giving birth?

I really hope that she lets it all out, screaming her head off during the birth. I hope she bitch slaps Tom into submission for trying to enforce the most misogynistic piece of shit idea I've ever heard. And I hope he cries himself to sleep when she decides that he isn't allowed to come near the baby until he renounces his ridiculous cult. And then I hope he snaps out of it, and stops being so insufferably annoying.

Everytime I read about this 'silent birth' idea I get so mad! I've had two babies both pretty natural. I think if anyone ever told me to shut up and be quiet and move in a reasonable way during the births would have lost their lives. There should be no rules just what feels right and didn't someone who made up these rules have a penis and never gave birth??? It makes me sick.

#9, i think tommy boy would actually enjoy that. i'm waiting for the lot of 'em to go down all waco-style, and tommy's feelin a little coresh (sp). when the waves of pain hit katie, i hope she wakes the fuck up, and realizes that childhood fantasies aren't always what they appear to be. if only jason bateman weren't married...

I don't think it'll come as much as a surprise when a month after the "birth" they'll announce that their "baby" died from SIDS without anyone ever seeing "it."

I want to cry for that baby - I hate that they just wrap the baby & leave him for a day or so. What about breastfeeding? Forming a mother-child bond? The whole thing makes me sick.

#22 - Tom Cruise purchased an ultrasound machine for his house so he could look at his spawn daily, so I'm pretty sure ultrasounds are not forbidden in scientology.

They're going to remake the movie "Rosemary's Baby" as "Katie's Baby" one of these days.

I'm glad she's about to give birth though...by all accounts she's at least 13 months pregnant.

I think Katie will snap out of it and become sane. Right? RIGHT?!?!

Tom Cruise deserves to be banned from reality.

This is just step one...step two is what Tom likes to call "Silent Marraige" and by that he means that Katie Stays silent while Tom gets bent over by the pool boy....everybody say it with me....Tom Cruise Loves the Cock.

If she wants to go through with it she's welcome to the experience. Seems daffy to me but it's an adult making her own decision.

$100 says she screams for the epidural. But of course, homo Cruise and all the other whacked out Scientologists will deny that she received the epidural. She's been a weenie her entire career (if you can call Dawson's Creek a career) and I seriously doubt she goes through childbirth w/o drugs.

You know, on second thought, I hope she just tells Tom to fuck off and let her do her own thing. Cruise is a manipulative bastard.

#33 Tom Cruise is not a current resident of Reality. He moved to the Alien Freak district quite a while ago.

I remember my grandfather telling me as a child that Native American women would clench a stick between their teeth and give birth without screaming; just panting or grunting.

:)

"Be silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable,"

Let's try setting those boards around a room while you're having smex... how awful!!

The no screaming thing.
K.
I think "ohhh well!"

But no mother-child contact for the first moments of the new borns life?
That doesn't sit well with me.

Poor Katie, I had always liked her till this point. She went from a controlling Chris Kline to TC. Poor girl, guess she likes being submisive and controlled. She was so much better than this,

i would like to know if there are any women of scientology who have an opinion on this.

personally this is absurd, tom is an ass

Apparently this 'silent birth' thing is just that the people around her have to keep talking to a minimum, not that she's expected to be silent during the birthing process! Taking the baby away is also apparently a big myth.

I just pray that "poor katie" gets the worst recorded case of ppd in history. then tom will be able to talk smack about something he actually knows about.

The signs are for the midwives and other birthing assistants, not for Katie. Besides, how hard can it be to birth a plastic doll? It's not like giving actual birth.

If she dies in childbirth I will not be surprised.

"They also tell them to stay away from the baby for a few days after."

RE. TARD. DED.

That's how babies die of SIDS.
You NEED to cuddle, hold, touch, talk to, and bond with your baby, ESPECIALLY right after it's born!!
You NEED to talk to your baby and make noises! They recognize your voice from hearing it for nine months in the womb and know that THAT voice is the voice of their mother, their protection, and that they are safe and cared for.
Oh my god this is the stupidest idea ever.

#31, I forgot about that. Thanks for the remonder ;)

#42, she was advised to speak to Leah Remini and Kelly Preston about silent birthing, so I think they are all for it.

i hope Katie gets up during child birth and beats Tom with those stupid signs. You become a different person during labor.

What dumb bitches. She and Tom.

Sooooooo, when Katie gets Postpartum depression, drowns her baby and comes after Tom with a chainsaw, does that mean she needs to eat better and exercise more? According to Dr. Cruise, thats what Brook Shields should have done. What a pathetic duo they make!

aahh, I can't leave this alone... first of all, no man has any right to tell a woman how to birth a baby.. like women would never know what it feels like to be kicked in the balls... (and that's just what should happen to that idiot)and secondly, don't most cults prefer to be out of the public eye, lest people realise how kooky they all are???

Run, run away, Katie, as fast as you can.

BTW, babies that are held, cuddled, nursed, spoken to and loved right after birth are more alert, more bonded to the mother, and generally cry less. Stick that in your crazy pipe and smoke it, you freaky bastard Tom...
(I speak from experience, 2 natural births...)

#15- I have decided along with a group of friends that I am not supporting ANY of these freaks or any of their movies etc.It is the only form of protest I can make which is not to make them any wealthier.I can live without MI3 that's for sure!!!

godspeed katie, wait, are you aloud to say that

#48 i liked Leah Remini, don't tell me she is a freak as well.

how do you not speak to your child after it is born

If Tom Cruise's vagina was functinal (instead of just cosmetic), maybe he could silenty birth the mutant. Regardless, I hope she screams like a horror film extra, except she won't die quickly from a chainsaw incident. She will die slowly from Tom Cruise destroying her will to live with the power of total lunacy never seen before on this planet.

Rock on Scientology! I don't think that you people are realizing the full weight of silent-birth potential here....who knows--silent birthing--providing a peaceful, quiet entry onto this planet for the goodness of the soul could prevent weird humans from popping up with weird religions with weird belief sys---of wait. Uh. Nevermind.

These freakin people need signs?!?

WTF?

This has all the makings of several hilarious episodes of South Park, or a recurring theme in the next stupid (but really funny) puppet movie.

Okay...like we all really need MORE proof that this cult is wacked out. Haven't watched a Tom Cruise movie in years, so thats covered. Seriously, she's an adult and if this crazy road is the one she chose, so be it. I just worry about the kid.

As for silent birth? Bullshit! Not surprised that this came from a man. I think we need a period of time for role reversals. Let's see men go through childbirth. What do you think ladies?

and the end of her career...

#56 PapaHotNuts, welcom back. F-ing hilarious.

Also I agree with #53, I've seen both MI 1 and MI 2 and there is no way in Hell I'm going to se MI 3.

Good Lord! What kind of religion is that?!

Do men have to be silent when passing kidney stones?

#56 -Tom Cruise has a vagina?? Is that why they think he is a bone smoocher???

#63. Yes, Tom Cruise has a vagina. And this surprises you?

Who has time to read SIGNS when one is in the throes of childbirth? If that's the case, tomorrow I'm sneaking a sign into the Cruise mansion that says "YOU ALL ARE INSANE and TOM HAS A VAGINA." I just know it will be effective. But for what, I don't know...

#55, yes she is a scientologist. A high up scientologist. Here's a listing of the other celeb nutjobs, I mean scientologists. In case anyone's interested and wants to boycott their movies/shows.

http://www.scientology-kills.org/celebrities/celebrities.htm

#64- I was only trying to not get sued by calling him a bone smoocher which I did not call him.

thanks for the list #65

Giovanni Ribisi is a wacko too?!
*cries*

I am really, REALLY trying to understand scientology, so that I can try to figure out what the hell these people are talking about. I'm reading about it but I just can't figure out how anyone could believe this crap.
Can anyone at all explain to me the benefits of being a scientologist?
My dad told me he knew some drug addict in college, that kicked the habit due to scientology...but that's the only positive thing I've heard.

Perhaps, so Tom Cruise can empathise with poor Katie, while she "silently" gives birth, we should repeatedly kick Tom in the testicles and ask to be silent and not take painkillers.

I HATE THIS DUMB MOTHER-F! BUT I THINK I HATE HER MORE, FOR BEING AN IDIOT!!! IF THAT WAS MY SIGNIFICANT OTHER & I WAS IN PAIN WITH LABOR, I WOULD BITE HIS FUCKING FACE OFF.

Personally I'm waiting for Katie's father to kick Tom Cruise right in the testicles for f-in up the gene pool with his little girl.

And the whole leave the baby alone for days... umm... couldn't that be considered neglect?!?!?!? o_0?

#63 and #66

Call Tom whatever you want, he's going to sue all our sorry butts no matter what.

That bone smoocher ... with a vagina.

:)

#72 -lol.

in a nutshell, what i read was that babies are not to be given medical ("poked and prodded") tests or spoken to for 7 days. personally, my take on this is that a baby not allowed to bond w/ mom is an easy mark for the "we are your new family" brainwashing later in life. as for medical testing, i believe it is the law in most states.

btw, glad to see papahotnuts back!!

also i should add the scientologists are gearing up for a new "drug rehab" center (narconon) VERY near my home.
i'm scared shitless.

*crawls into corner and sucks thumb*

#22 Yeah, Tom has done "a lot" of ultrasounds on his baby...in an interview he stated that he actually purchased a top of the line sonograph machine while Katie is pregnant to monitor the baby himself...he plans to donate it to a hospital after the birth of the baby.

·#65
Yeah, thanks for that list. I am sure it will make an influence on my movies schedule :).
I am so glad that Scientology had helped them. Can you just see how successfull their careers are!

Note: Eduardo Palomo was a succesfull mexican actor than died due to a heart condition. Weird, considering he was quite young but now I could understand. Also, no one had idea he was indeed a scientologist. I think I'll check if I can contact the site.

Katie is way too good for Cruise. I guess she can't see past his pretty face. Although, according to one website, Katie told the closet homosexual that she wants nothing to do with this "Silent Birth."

http://www.scientology-kills.org/celebrities/holmes.htm

Happily his 2 other children are not its descendants, but that will be one... in the case or it is not another one who did it for him.
also hope for that this child does not sink, him, in the scientology

http://www.leztime.com

je me demande quand les star vont envisager l'achat d'enfants en supermarché pour ne pas abîmer leurs corps...
Vous savez, des enfants parfaits, avec des visages parfaits, des études parfaites, un mariage parfait, une sexualité parfaite et un gros porte-feuilles... Of course !

http://www.leztime.com

I wonder when the star will consider the purchase of children in supermarket not to damage their bodies... You know, of the perfect children, with perfect faces, perfect studies, a perfect marriage, a perfect sexuality and large wallets...of course

http://www.leztime.com

silent and birth. 2 words that NEVER go together LOL oh boy what did this girl get herself in to?? I wonder what her family thinks about all this....

"Silent birth"?!?!?!

Why can't all Scientologists just be silent all the time. Those that want to act can be mimes, YEAH!!!

Please, someone......anyone......take out Tom Cruise! I want that fucker to disappear so bad that if murder wasn't illegal, I'd take care of that gay little turd myself.

You all are being so totally unfair!! Tom is silent when taking large objects and/or dry penises in his pooper (take it from me, I'm in him now and nothing.. its awesome!) so WHY shouldn't Katie be quiet as her vagina is tearing?? C'mon people THINK! Scientology is a very worthwhile compliment to ones life and if some businessman/wacko decides to make up his own damn religion then why the hell not believe every damn word that man says?? Xanu bless you all!

Scientology is the BIGGEST bunch of bull I have ever heard of. And now Silent Birth. Please... I hope Katie screams her head off and then has a case of post-partum depression and needs serious medication. What now Tom? Is this nonsense why Nicole divorced you? Ouch.

TOM: OK, now Katie, quiet down... push silently now. Quiet. Quiet...

KATIE: ARRRRRGGGGHHH! SCREW YOU, YOU TWERPY LITTLE FAGGOT! THIS ISN'T YOUR BABY ANYWAY YOU *^&%**^**%ING ASS HOLE!

...so much for silent birth.

#78 maybe the brainwashing is wearing off and that is why he's been dragging he rto the center so much. I wouldn't let those freaks near my baby either. I hope she becomes like a mother lion and bites anyone who tries to touch her new baby.

Maeve97- kicking one habit for another is not all that positive. What's the point of quitting smack when your mind is being controlled by alien worshipping weirdos?

The no-contact with baby rule is pretty scary.

When women first give birth they can sometimes start hemorraging because their uterus won't shrink. The first thing you do in these situations is have the woman start breastfeeding because it contracts the uterus. There is something physiological about this bond that can save the woman's life.

I think that right there says novels about how important it is to let the mother have her child with her.

Ah, NOW it makes sense.... that Nicole Kidman chose to adopt!!

Maybe, just maybe, Katie will be overcome with horrible post partum depression and wind up KILLING Cruise when he tells her to "take her vitamins and all will be well." There... problem solved!

My question is where the fuck are her parents during all this nonsense? What mother in their right mind would let her daughter and first grandchild suffer through this. What is the purpose of isolating a newborn, has anyone read about it? It goes against everything natural about the mother/child bonding. How traumatizing for a newborn to be abandoned. I think THAT would cause irreparable damage down the line. BTW #91, the reason T.C. and Nicole adopted is because they didn't have sex their entire marriage. it was a contract marriage. When she mis-carried, it wasn't his, it was from an affair, that's why he divorced her

I think everyone else has basically said everything I've wanted to say, so I'll just be all repetitive and say this: Anyone foolish enough to tell ME to be quiet during childbirth would quickly find themselves missing a lesser body part. If by "lesser" I mean "vital" and by "body part" I mean "trachea."

T.C. is so lucky. When my wife gave birth she was so loud I could barely hear Jim Rome over all the racket.

I still say we all make "Hail xenu" shirts.

bloody hell!!
why on earth is she not allow to make a sound?

sigh..poor katie...

Tom has already been banned from reality...believing in L Ron SCRUBBOARD's phony scientology 'n bad science fiction writing...the day that couch jumpin weasel births a child we'd see who was screamin'.....too bad he can't carry the kid....wonder what the kids thetan level will be.....silent birth....pffttttttt.only if I was in a coma.

I don't know if this will squash this rumor any and i'm by no means a Tom Cruise fanatic, but he did say the story about the silent birth was bullshit. I mean I guess that it exists in the Scientology handbook (along with theton levels and other crap) but they NOT doing THAT. In fact that story is old, I remember him saying that MONTHS AGO.

It just proves my contention that most of the people in Hollywood are suffering from some form of mental disorder. How can you account for the success of scientology otherwise? Add that to the weird behaviour, the totally unexplainable meltdown of so many, the nervous exhaustion, the drug use abuse and overdoses? I lived with one for 5 years and I see the symptoms in alot of the behaviour I see in our "Celebs". Hell most of them couldn't hold down a real job for that very reason. You have millions of $ but you engage in self destructive substance abuse and or risky hehaviour that could take it all away? That is not normal mental health by any definition...

I've got a whole cabinet full of post-partem meds, ya know, just in case Katie finally wakes up and realizes she's just popped out L. Ron Hubbard's demon seed. Oh, and that she's been gratuitously PDA-ing ad nauseam with one of biggest closet cases in H'wood.

Not to worry - the no-contact rule between Mama and baby is only so Kate's "doctor" has time to take the kid into the back room and install the required Anti-Common Sense microchip into his/her little brain. Then a proper mother and child reunion finally can begin.

P.S. Jason Lee is a Scientologist? My buddy EARL? I might as well join them now, as I've suddenly lost the will to live. EARRRL...!

Tom will probably break that rule and start jumping on the couch, screaming, "I love my baby so much", at any given moment, so I'm not too worried about him enforcing it.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Scientologist-John-Travolta-Recommends-Unnatural-Birth-Behavior-For-Katie-Holmes-10030.shtml

"Scientologists prefer to give birth at home and banish neo-natal screening and conventional medicine. Home births also accommodate the Scientology's "silent birth" rules about not talking to a newborn baby for a period of one week."

So all the studies about babies learning language as we talk to them doesn't matter in Scientology?? How do these people survive? I'd love to see an IQ test of this kid in five years. Poor thing...

what is their own justification for leaving the baby alone for a few days (or whatever it was). What about bonding? Supposedly the silent birth thing was so the baby enters a loving environment without swear words, yelling, etc. What about the whole "loving" aspect of this? I can't see leaving any living creature alone an act that will help it develop properly or feel the love of people around it. This is completely ridiculous.

I had heard a few years ago that L. Ron Hubbard commited suicide. Then when I went and read some literature by ex-members of the scientology hierarchy, they made it sound like he got murdered by people on the inside of the organization. Apparently he was being investigated for tax fraud and also for trying to get his spies to infiltrate the Us government so they could peak at the files that the US had on him (Hubbard). It was part of something that hubbard called "operation snow white". Anyway I think some scientologists went to jail over that.

So his will was redrafted the day before he died. In the will it stated that an autopsy was forbidden. Well the coroner did get to take blood samples and examin the body. He had a bunch of needle marks in his butt. His body also showed signs of a psychoactive drug that would have been injected into his system at least 24 hours prior to death. So the speculation from teh ex-scientologists was that he was under the influence of these drugs when he rewrote the will and the amount he was given was done with the intent to kill him.

What I wonder is, how does teh scientology "church" with all its bad press actually get these celebrities to sign up?

Any Lost fans out there??

Katie= Claire
Tom=Ethan

Run while there is still time, girl, run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG...HAS ANYONE HAS ANYONE HAD A BABY BEFORE...HELLO I DONT GIVE A SHIT WHO AND WHAT THE BELIEFS ARE...I HAVE HAD 4 KIDS BACK TO BACK TO BACK...AND THERE IS NOTHING LIKE CHILD BIRTH. NO MAN COULD EVER GIVE BIRTH TO A CHILD. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW AT TOM CRUISE. I WILL NEVER WHATCH ANOTHER MOVIE OF HIS AGAIN. HE THINKS HE KNOWS IT ALL ABOUT WOMEN AND WHAT WE GO THROUGH. FIRST OF ALL NO ONES PUTTING SHIT IN A WOMENS MOUTH WHILE SHES PUSHING OUT A BABY....AND NOT TALKING TO THE BABY FOR A WEEK.IS SHE SUPOSE TO PUSH IN SSILENCE..YA RIGHT! AND NOT TALKING TO THE BABY FOR A WEEK AFTER ITS BORN!
HELLLLLLLLOOOOOO THE BABY NEEDS TO HEAR ITS MOTHER THATS HOW THEY FEEL SAFE...IT'S WHAT THEIR USE TO...UNLESS YOU WANNA TRAMATIZE THE POOR BABY....OMG I FEEL SO BAD FOR HER AND THAT BABY...HE TOTALLY CONTROLS HER..LIKE SHES HIS KID. SHES OUT OF HER MIND...OMG!HES JUST HATING CUZ NICOLE KIDMAN COULDNT POP EM OUT! HE IS SO LAME..I WANNA SEE HIM HAVE A CHILD! OHHHH IM SO PISTED RIGHT NOW!

Wow. Quite bitter.

Seems few if any of the posters actually read into what Silent Birth really is. Mister Hubbard never coined this term and was given by others to describe preventative method which requests Doctors and nurses from being overly chatted and use words like push push and other statements that could affect a childs mental well being.

What is a quiet or silent birth?

Having a quiet, gentle birth is all about providing the best possible environment for the birthing mother and her new baby.
It is labor and delivery done in a calm and loving environment and with no-spoken words by everyone attending as much as possible. Chatty doctors and nurses, shouts to “PUSH, PUSH” and loud or laughing remarks to “encourage” are the types of things that are meant to be avoided.
As L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of Dianetics and Scientology, wrote, “Everyone must learn to say nothing within the expectant mother’s hearing during labor and delivery.” And, “A woman who wants her child to have the best possible chance will find a doctor who will agree to keep quiet especially during the delivery, and who will insist upon silence being maintained in the hospital delivery room as far as it is humanly possible.”

To those who know the pain of childbirth first hand also know its not a easy thing and Mister Hubbard was also aware of this.

Of course they can make noises — the point of silent birth is NO WORDS. This is a principle of Dianetics and to fully understand why, read the book Dianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard. It is words that are the culprit. Outside of not speaking, the objective is generally to have as peaceful and relaxing an environment as possible for the mother and child. It is doubtful that any woman could give birth without making any noise at all.

Mothers naturally want to give their baby the best possible start in life and thus keep the birth as quiet as possible.

My child recieved this. The Doctors and Nurses were very understanding ( My daughter was born in a normal US hospital just to answer those questions) The Doctors and especially the Nurses were very understanding and it made a lot of sense to them, especially when you know what the doctors and some nurses say and chat during surgeries and during child birth procedures. Especially the Doctors yelling at the nurses.

Lastly to the person who attempted to read Dianetics and was unable to understand please refer to the note at the beginning of the book.

Midisbell