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Katie Holmes will try for drug-free, "silent birth"

Categories: Pregnancy & birth, Media

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According to the New York Daily News, Katie Holmes will be giving birth without drugs, in silence. That's because her fiancé, psychiatry expert, Tom Cruise, is a Scientologist. Practitioners of Scientology are against painkillers, but insist on "silent birth" because "they believe it's traumatic for babies to hear their mothers groan or cry." Scientologists follow the teaching of their founder, L. Ron Hubbard who said, "Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go." But it's not just a silent birth. Scientologists also prescribe seven days of silence for newborns "so their first week on Earth is trauma-free. But this has run afoul of state-mandated blood tests, which require at least a pinprick." I just…it's like…I mean…I don't know what to say.

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