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Posted on 03/28/2006 5:56:13 AM PST by Quilla
TOM Cruise’s pregnant fiancée Katie Holmes will be reminded to keep her vow of silence during birth — by signs plastered around their home.
The couple — following the Scientology tradition of a silent birth — had the posters delivered to their Beverly Hills mansion.
The 6ft placards will be placed so Katie can see them in labour.
One reads: “Be silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable.”
Dawson’s Creek actress Katie, 26, must “keep mum” and will not even be allowed painkillers when she has the couple’s first child due any day.
Friends — believed to be Scientology elders — were pictured carrying the huge white boards through the gates.
The “birthing boards” will also tell staff and visitors to stay silent.
Followers believe it is traumatic for babies to hear their mother scream or groan when giving birth. They think it can cause “psychic” damage, which takes years of therapy to overcome.
The cult’s creator, sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard, once said: “Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and child.”
The doctrine stresses newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or spoken to for seven days.
Katie began dating Tom, 43, last year. She was well-known for her Catholic beliefs but quickly fell pregnant and is yet to wed.
The “birthing boards” will also tell staff and visitors to stay silent.
Followers believe it is traumatic for babies to hear their mother scream or groan when giving birth. They think it can cause “psychic” damage, which takes years of therapy to overcome.
The cult’s creator, sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard, once said: “Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and child.”
The doctrine stresses newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or spoken to for seven days.
Katie began dating Tom, 43, last year. She was well-known for her Catholic beliefs but quickly fell pregnant and is yet to wed.
Where is South Park when you need it.
Wackos breeding alert!
"“Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and child..."
ROTFL and giving myself a hernia....
I certainly hope Tom is standing by her right hand when he tells her this while she pushes...remembering the height of the delivery table, she should be right at target.
I have no idea what that means.
The doctrine stresses newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or spoken to for seven days.
"They think it can cause “psychic” damage, which takes years of therapy to overcome. "
It's not noise during birth that needs years of therapy to overcome - it's the cult itself.
Applied to Scientologists...that's like shutting the barn door after the horse ran off.
That's why my kids are such a mess -- I yelled my unmedicated head off! (Maybe if I put them in an isolation tank....)
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Just something they felt like writing.
Actually she was well-known and happened to be a nominal Catholic.
Talk about cruel and sick. What mother could be silent around her newborn? What mother doesn't want to cuddle her baby and coo to her precious infant? This is just bizarre.
I could make a joke here about putting some of the placards up in the house after the birth to help remind one's wife to keep her trap shut, but I won't.
Just pinging you to the insanity that is Cult Living Today.
I hope he makes the same mistake my ex did...putting his hand over her mouth. I bit the crap out of him, LOL!
Or swallow, and subsequently pass (no pun intended) a football.
Bull-cookies. My kids responded very well to my voice right after birth. And how do you find out if the kid is healthy if you can't poke the baby. Methinks Tommy Cruise himself currently has single digit Apgar tests scores.
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