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Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

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Please remain silent

37 replies

Rodeo · 30/03/2006 23:13

I think I would find another use for his signs, wouldn't you?

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unicorn · 31/03/2006 00:33

indeed..
what a total d*ck.

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 31/03/2006 00:38

gobsmacked. what a tosser. hand on heart, the sounds I came out with were pain relief. I also could not have not made them.

katetom · 31/03/2006 01:02

that poor poor girl. what has she got herself into??

skerriesmum · 31/03/2006 01:08

This is interesting though:
www.geocities.com/kiduniverse.geo/scientology-silent-birth.html

ghosty · 31/03/2006 03:07

Nutter

arfissimeau · 31/03/2006 03:11

Hmm. So what happens if it's a c-section? Will the surgical team have to mime and peform it with no pain relief?

Completely barking. I feel so sorry for her.

nightowl · 31/03/2006 03:19

idiotic man, no idea obviously. id like to see him go through that pain quietly!

cataloguequeen · 31/03/2006 04:06

What an Arse lets see him try to pass a melon without making a sound.. not likely!!!

arfissimeau · 31/03/2006 04:27

Yep. If I was KH I'd jab him with a hypodermic syringe every time I had contraction and see how quiet he kept. I'd move up to a cattle-prod or something as my labour progressed, finishing off with a red-hot poker up the jacksy for the crowning.

arfissimeau · 31/03/2006 04:30

Yep. If I were KH I'd jab him with a hypodermic syringe every time I had contraction and see how quiet he kept. I'd move up to a cattle-prod or something as my labour progressed, finishing off with a red-hot poker up the jacksy for the crowning.

arfissimeau · 31/03/2006 04:31

Notice the subtle grammar change inbetween postings for fear of being caught out by one of the grammar pedants.

intergalacticwalrus · 31/03/2006 07:20

Tom Cruise is a knob neck.

Katie Holmes is an ever bigger knob neck for putting up with all this bolleaux.

Auntymandy · 31/03/2006 07:30

is it her choice too?

arfissimeau · 31/03/2006 07:31

But the rumour is that in the 16 days she disappeared after meeting him for a part in Mission Impossible III she signed a contract to be his beard, because he's clearly gay along with John Travolta (allegedly), got impregnated by L Ron Hubbards cryogenically frozen sperm & this is just the biggest acting job of her life. (Allegedly)

You see. They're not pulling the wool over my eyes. Oh no.

lact8 · 31/03/2006 07:33

I agree with everyone. I'd like to know what Mr Cruise will do if KH does make a noise? Gag her??!
I personally think it would be (mission) impossible - ha ha, to remain silent. And surely more damaging to mother and possibly baby if she is focusing all of her attention trying to remain silent rather than listening to her body's natural instinct?
And does silence extend to baby crying at moment of birth too?
Man is a 1st class loon!

lact8 · 31/03/2006 07:36

cross threads - arfissimeau

pupuce · 31/03/2006 08:33

please think of all the other scenologists around.....

arfissimeau · 31/03/2006 08:39

Knob Neck - is that a scientology term?

lact8. I don't think it's possible to stop yourself making noise when you give birth (well I did, but then I was drugged up to the eyeballs, unlike poor Katie).

At the very least she should be allowed a moo or two.

acnebride · 31/03/2006 08:55

I think it's completely possible to be a lot more silent than I was - it wasn't that long ago that most women were supposed to be quiet during birth, try reading American Way of Birth for Jessica Mitford's description of her inability to make a noise due to early training, and The Light Years for description of Sybil's birth of twins with no noise, again due to training about ladylike behaviour and also due to giving birth at home but trying not to disturb people. I wonder if KH being brought up in a different time with different ideas (THANK GOD) would be able to restrain the good racket she may want to make.

GeorginaA · 31/03/2006 08:58

Interesting link skerriesmum. Does sound like the media have made their usual hash of reporting and got it all wrong again if Katie isn't expected to be silent but the people around her are. I think I'd have quite liked a birthing room where the doctors/nurses didn't talk unless absolutely essential - in fact, I remember my yoga teacher saying something similar as it helps the mother focus more inside themselves without external distraction.

However, I do find it hard to view anything scientology without it being coloured by my experiences with a friend whose mother was a scientologist. It took him a long time (and an emigration) to escape the influence and it had seriously screwed him up :(

RedTartanLass · 31/03/2006 09:48

It's interesting to the see the other side of the story, thanks skerriesmum \link{http://www.geocities.com/kiduniverse.geo/scientology-silent-birth.html\link, in case you missed it}

WideWebWitch · 31/03/2006 09:51

arfissimeau (who were you?), you are making me larf, like the jacksy comments!

Gemmitygem · 31/03/2006 09:53

sounds like scary sexist claptrap..

reminds me of the Pope's opposition to epidurals in the 1970s because women ought to suffer!

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 31/03/2006 11:08

sounds like this is a case of bad reporting. (still suspect TC is a tosser though...)

Kathy1972 · 31/03/2006 11:28

I understand that in Japan you are supposed to remain ladylike and not swear.

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