Scientology: Silent Birth
I don't know any woman who has given birth to a child that is strong enough for a silent birth. No yelling at the father that this is all his fault? Biting back on outbursts when a painful contraction comes on? Childbirth is bound to be painful and scary. That's just the nature of it. It doesn't make much sense to me that the mother, whose can be in quite intense pain, should have to bite her lip until it bleeds in order not to bellow in pain, just for the sake of a silent birth. L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology have absolutely no proof that a doctor telling the mother to push is going to cause them to have psychological issues stemming from that word, or any word spoken during the birth. Or, let's take another tack: how about the psychological ramifications on the mother? She is not supposed to be told she's "doing great", get instructions from hospital personnel and she must suppress her natural urge to cry out in pain and express herself.
L. Ron Hubbard said that infants "be wrapped somewhat tightly in a warm blanket, very soft, and then left alone for a day or so." Yep, that's the proper way to care for a newborn baby - just leave it alone in absolute quiet. Why anyone would follow these practices is beyond me. A baby, especially a newborn, needs love and attention. How about the long-term affects of a newborn baby in a frightening new environment simply left alone and feeling abandoned and confused? What about bonding between the mother and infant. Scientology stresses newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or spoken to for seven days. I don't feel it's a very good idea not to give a newborn a physical exam or to have no verbal interaction with it.
"Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and child." - L. Ron Hubbard. I think it's a strong woman who can make it through childbirth without uttering a word or groaning in pain, but it's seems like pointless suffering to me. Obviously, L. Ron Hubbard has no compassion for women.
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Post a CommentI would like to make a point, who remembers the day they were born? I sure don't. How can it be proven that when I was born, which was not a silent birth, that I am an less better off then a child that did. I don't even know who was at the hospital when I was born let alone anything that was said or heard. I think the whole thing is made up and ridiculous, and if you honestly buy in to this crap, you have serious problems, and scientology isn't gonna fix it. Children start remembering bits and peices around age 3. That is when they start really understanding their dominent language and start putting together full sentences.
It is a proven fact that children benefit neorlogically from being talked to in a comforting and soft tone, not that they will remember it, but it makes their mind stimulated. The only thing that children understand from a very young age, of only a few monthes, is voice inflections, and gradually as they get older they begin to put together tone and facial exp
Heather:
I have had 3 children, all natural childbirth. And I refused the painkillers, there was no problems with pain or screaming either. I think that if a mother is healthy and in good communication with her baby, and of course the father. Childbirth should be as calm as a bath. This may sound abit on the crazy side. But This is the first step for the baby to enter the world... The stress level need not be present.
Childbirth isn't always scary, and it isn't always perceived as painful. Yes, I know, that's shocking. It was scary and painful for me with my first, but other women can and do manage to remain calm, usually because they know nothing is going to go wrong, they trust themselves, they have faith. Birth is even orgasmic for some; the oxytocin combined with the baby passing through the birth canal just creates that sensation in some. While I don't agree with her doing this all because Tom Cruise willed it so, I do know women that are strong enough to be silent during birth, and I know of women who've had labors that were so easy that they barely needed to cry out anyway.
Peggy, Two members of scientology just lost a lawsuit that was funded by scicenotlogy over this. Here is the blunt of the lawsuit......Scientologists Ray and Louise Spiering went to federal court to argue that Nebraska's mandatory blood test for infants would violate their right to practice the "Silent Birth Method" of their religion. According to the lawsuit, "... every effort should be made to avoid subjecting the baby to loud sounds, talking, stress or pain during the first seven days of the baby's life ... TALKING? and this was mostly over the fact the state required a simple blood test of ever newborn.
It is scientifically proven the speaking to the child and interacting with it after it is born is the best way for its mind to develop. Children who are isolated and not spoken to or interacted with are proven to have a less developed brain at the same age as a child who is constantly mentally stimulated. I don't think that not speaking to the child will do it much good and if anythign will cause it irreversible harm. When a child is born, it knows nothing about the outside world and learns everything it knows at this stage through interaction with the parents and other people. IT is only at this stage will it be able to absorb all of this information. After that stage, trying to stimulate the child will be of no use and the child will most likely develop some kind of learning disability. Silent birth itself, sounds ok to me, but not stimulating the child after that sounds like it would be more harmful than helpful and ultimately detrimental to the child's future state of mind.
Jus
Doc, why so hateful? The people here are posting from hubbard's own writings. I have no problem with the silent birth if thats what both parents want. My problem is with what comes next. The first week of the babies life. You know, the part where he or she is not spoken to. Sorry doc, thats child abuse to me.
I've read so much stupid crap about this "silent birth" thing, that I've become sick of it.
In a Scientology "silent birth":
There is NO restriction of communication between doctor and mother or father and mother and there is CERTAINLY NO RESTRICTION of the mother from screaming and yelling at the top of her lungs if she wants to.
There is NO PROBLEM with the husband giving support and encouragement, verbal or otherwise, to the woman giving birth.
However, there are restrictions on unnecessary, extraneous communications from doctor to nurse and nurse to nurse.
Obviously, doctors and nurses need to be able to communicate with each other during a birth, especially if there's any kind of an emergency situation. It's just that it needs to be conducted outside of the hearing of the mother and baby, if at all possible.
Hubbard also warns against the "volley of whispers", which can affect mother and baby, later on in life.
As far as "leaving the baby alone for
Well said Navy.
What feels good to you David will not feel good for a new born baby. Are you also going to keep the child alone for 7 days? I can't understand how these people can do this. The only comfort a new born has is the touch and sound of those who love them. And David, I think a man every saying what you did is silly. Its real easy for us to say this but WE are not the ones having the child and feeling the pain.
A friend of mine was a scientologist. She was in for many years. Now she is out. And now that she have looked at other websites than scientology's, she told me that she felt she is finally "clear"! That scientology's websites don't tell the truth because they are not allowed to do so. If any of the scribents of the scientology-websites would do so, even by mistake, it surely meant they are sent off to the RPF, scientology's prisoncamps. I don't like a church with prisoncamps. Who does?