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Scientology Silent Birth

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in May 2011 Moms

I try not to get involved in other peoples religious choices so this is not a post about scientology but rather about the comment I read today about how a silent birth is calming and your child will grow up to be calm if you're quiet during birth. What do you guys think?

?Silent birth is basically just no words, as much as possible. If you need to moan, if you cry out, you know all of that, of course that?s normal,? Preston explained in response to Morales' question of what exactly a "silent birth" means.

?But just bringing them in as peaceful and gentle a way as possible because L. Ron Hubbard found the single source of aberration of psychosomatic illnesses ? stress, fears, worry, things like that ? have to do with the reactive mind. And in that part of the mind is different words and commands that can come back and affect you later in life.?

Preston also credits the practice for giving her kids such peaceful dispositions.

?I?m blessed?my kids have always been amazing,? she told ?Today.? ?Very calm, very peaceful, happy?and I absolutely know that it?s very much because of that.?

 https://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/19/kelly-preston-silent-birth-gave-me-peaceful-kids/?hpt=T2

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  • iris427iris427 member
    I think anyone who thinks that the way they gave birth is going to affect their child's lifelong personality and emotional health is delusional.
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  • melaniep1005melaniep1005
    I think it is hogwash.  Nothing against K. Preston and her religion...but I have a hard time with the silent birth.  Having a calm environment (candles, music, maybe being in a tub with warm water) is understandable and great because it helps to keep mom calm and her blood pressure down.  But come on...a silent, wordless environment?  Nawwww....
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  • kerrbear72kerrbear72 member
    The only way I'd manage to be silent is if someone knocked me out cold.

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  • tokenhosertokenhoser member

    I've got nothing against religion in general... but Scientology really is just nuts. Ron Hubbard found the best way to make scads of money was to found a religion. I question anything else he claimed to find.

    It really seems like another way to control women.

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  • MrsDLMrsDL member

    imageiris427:
    I think anyone who thinks that the way they gave birth is going to affect their child's lifelong personality and emotional health is delusional.

    This - I raise an eyebrow at the notion that some noise prior to and during delivery will have a huge life-long impact, one way or another, on a child. It's how your raise your child everyday that influences this.

    Everyone has a different tolerence to pain and people exhibit different responses as a result. I firmly believe that panting, heavy breathing, moaning, and even sceaming is specific to the individual not only from a tolerence perspective, but specific to the body's ability to implement it's own method of pain management. These reactions actually help us work through pain. Pain doesn't just "hurt," it causes other physiological issues such has hyper/hypotension and tachycardia or bradycardia. These things, in turn, can lead to other complications. Why would anyone want to surpress the body's own response to pain for these reasons?

     
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  • Leggadine08Leggadine08

    I also think its crazy. Nothing against anyone or anything but if they think Im gonna be laboring for maybe 12+ hours without even talking to my spouse? Nope lol

    I agree that being calm (or as calm as possible) is better for the baby and for you. However I dont think that no talking is going to make your baby calm. All kids have their own unique personalities and disposition and I would think the way your child behaves would have more to do with the enviroment hes raised in NOT the enviroment he was born in...

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  • MrsJuicy2BMrsJuicy2B member
    It seems counter intuitive to me. It seems like the kids with the loudest parents I knew growing up turned out to be the calmest adults and vice versa. I like calm and quiet as much as the next gal, but I think babies' dispositions have little to do with the conditions surrounding their birth.
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  • sparkymcgeeesparkymcgeee member

    imageiris427:
    I think anyone who thinks that the way they gave birth is going to affect their child's lifelong personality and emotional health is delusional.

    this. I mean really.



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  • DeAnna783310DeAnna783310 member
    if that is what they believe-more power to them.. I know I won't be going hours without saying a word!
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  • Luma88Luma88 member

    imageiris427:
    I think anyone who thinks that the way they gave birth is going to affect their child's lifelong personality and emotional health is delusional.

    This.  And she had a c-section, in which I'm guessing it may be easier to be silent through ( I don't know though -haven't been there :)) 



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  • CallidryasCallidryas member
    I will not be taking part in this and I do not agree with their thinking.  We all have something that we choose to believe, that is weird to someone else. 
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  • jimenezvjimenezv

    imageiris427:
    I think anyone who thinks that the way they gave birth is going to affect their child's lifelong personality and emotional health is delusional.

    This..... Really I think Scientology is just bs but to each their own.

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