Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The "silent birth" became an object of media interest when it was known that outspoken Scientologist actor Tom Cruise, and wife Katie Holmes who converted to Scientology from Roman Catholicism, were expecting a child. Reports that the couple would follow the practice of silent birth were denied, until photos were taken of large placards being ...
Silent birth, sometimes known as quiet birth, is a birthing procedure advised by L. Ron Hubbard and advocated by Scientologists in which "everyone attending the birth should refrain from spoken words as much as possible" and where "chatty doctors and nurses, shouts to 'PUSH, PUSH' and loud or laughing remarks to 'encourage' are avoided". [4]
According to Scientology practices, silent birth is "mandatory to provide the best possible environment for the pregnant mother and her new baby." Shouting, laughing, or making loud remarks must be avoided while the baby is being pushed out.
The Church of Scientology prevented a woman from seeking mental health treatment before she took her own life, a lawsuit states.. The woman, Whitney Mills, 40, was a high-level Scientologist who ...
"Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath"/A&E. Mike Rinder said he and the 100 or so others being held in the Hole had to eat "slop" and that they weren't able to come and go as they pleased.
The Church of Scientology is widely viewed as anti-LGBTQ given founder L. Ron Hubbard's writings, and Moss was quick to clarify that "is not where I stand." "It’s like, it’s a lot to get into ...
These same beliefs form the basis for Hubbard's "Silent birth" doctrine, which dictates that no words are spoken during the childbirth process. [11] According to a Scientology manual on raising children, a couple should be silent before and after coition.
In 2006, Stith's pregnancy and delivery was reported on in the Chicago Daily Herald, in a report analyzing the silent birth practices of Scientology, and how this would apply to Katie Holmes. [7] The birth of Stith's fifth child, a boy, was described, in which Stith refused painkillers, and there was silence in the delivery room. [7]