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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.
I suspected as much. Nobody is well-known for their Catholic beliefs. Even the Pope is not known for his beliefs, but for his position.
The whole scientology cult frightens me, Q.
Anybody care to wager on whether L. Ron Hubbard has ever given birth?
"Dude this is pretty $%#&ed up right here."
Mrs. Cruise must have screamed a lot.
I predict Katie will rip those signs to shreds after a couple hours of labor
My husband and the anaethetist were talking about sports during one of my contractions ..... I said "WILL YOU SHUT UP!" to them and my voice sounded just like SATAN. So, you just might be right
This is such old, boring news, if it weren't for the scientology angle. That makes it: 
Cruise will change "religions" more than once before we see the last of him. He'll change wives too. He's just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, everyday part of the Sleazywood life-style.
Unless the infant is deaf, he already knows the sound of his parents' voices. Babies hear inside the womb -- I would think it would be more upsetting to endure complete silence than to hear something familiar.
The day our grandson was born, he kept turning toward our son's voice whenever he heard it. Our son had been talking to him throughout his wife's pregnancy.
I agree. Babies brains grow when cortisol courses through it in correct ways, usually by give and take between the baby and its primary caregiver. How is not speaking to this baby going to help its mental development?
Oh, so that's what happended to Tom.
Clearly Hubbard has never been in labor. Sounds more like keeping the sanity of the father, and nothing to do with mother and child.
You are absolutely right.
No screaming during childbirth? No painkillers? No making sure the baby is healthy? This is not just a "fruity little club" this is a sadistic cult.
Insane in the brain.
Maybe she can hold onto Toms testicles while in labor. "Tom, Tom, remember to keep silent!"
"Look, see..I`m not gay!"
"Look, see..I`m not gay!"
When my first daughter was born .. I was still working at the time at a law firm .. well during one of my contractions, I screamed that I wanted my lawyer
I got everyones attention with that one .. LOL!
LOL!
That cartoon is true...What are they going to do when the baby cries?
Not married. I don't think this young, silly girl knew what she was getting into. My heart breaks for the kid.
not!
Tom is a control freak and Katie is a fool.
But at least the article correctly called scientology a "cult".
LOL! That's a first! Were you going to bring litigation against your hubbie?
"Young" "girl"??? Nope. She is 26 years old. That is a grown woman by ANY measure. Nothing "GIRL" about a 26 year old woman. She might be a "youngish" woman, but even that will NOT do.
You must be over 50 to think so. :o) No insult intended. I am too.
She got knocked up. That means she wasn't married when she dropped her drawers. She knew what she was doing. Twenty-six year old women know what they are doing. Any moron can use birth control these days.
Her morals are the problem. She has none, even scientology ones.
Save your breaking heart for young women who deserve you sympathy....not bimbos who hop into the sack for the sake of an older, wealthy kook like Cruise.
We have women serving in the military who are much younger than that. THEY are far more deserving of your sympathy. My opinion.
1. Some are still girls at 56. But, being middle-aged they are just awful....immaturity plus the trauma of not being young, slendy, desirable, nubile and child-producing. Lol. The queen bees, I call'em.
2. That is the heartbreaker; you're right.
3. May God keep him safe.
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