guide to scientology birth..

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\link{http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1741763,00.html#article_continue...as Tom n Katie await their very own little l ron hubbard..}
(favourite bit: "By the way, life in the womb is not the paradise it has been presented as. Instead "the womb is wet, uncomfortable and unprotected")

Poor old Katie! Tom Cruise is such a t**t!

Completely barking.

apparently her birth companions will have motivational posters to show her during the birth

WHat sort of posters - like the ones with daft chimps and 'you don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps'?

well what do you expect from a cult invented by a MAN?

Or (more appropriately) 'Today is the first day of the rest of my life'

How very insulting, my womb is lovely

like this apparently

Miss Holmes can, however, turn to large "instructional" boards delivered by friends.

One reads: "Be silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable".

that will be two fingers then

i hope she tells them all to Pi** off and get me some drugs!

Does this mean that DD1 has a permanent engram of 'I'd better make it quick, I've got a train to Brussels to catch in two hours'?

you couldn't make it up, could you?

I'm worried about her. I am concerned that she is not going to get the help she needs, and is going to be surrounded by people who care more about what her husband wants than what she wants while in labour.

I really would not like to be in her position.

Zippi - don't! YOu're making me snigger out loud, and I'm at work. People are looking at me strangely wondering if I'm upset about something .

colditz, it's pure brainwashing, stockholm syndrome stuff

wet, uncomfortable and unprotected????? Wet is a stupid statement - did anyone think it was the sahara in there? If its uncomfortable would Mr Hubbard pay for my operation to have a settee and a minibar installed in my womb? And as for unprotected??? Well in 23 years no-one's broken in, graffitied in the middle of the night or sold hard drugs in my womb - better protection than Group 4 can boast!!!!

i think we should get one of those groups who rescues snatched children from exes to go in & get her..disguised as midwife with inspirational flipcharts..

'Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child', ah, thats where it all started to go wrong then.

hey, she's an adult, albeit a rather dim one.

if she wants to marry some weirdy stumpy fella w/big teeth and join a cult, well, you reap what you sow, eh?

so, me screaming 'get me a f**king epidural' would have gone down like a lead balloon then?

exactly, expat, i dont feel bad for her in the slightest!!!

poor cow. It's her first baby - she has no idea!!!

I could never have stayed silent during labour.

How are they going to enforce it anyway??? I also read that she's got to be seperated from the baby for days after birth - errm, why???

what a load of bo ll ox

Feel very sorry for her - Happy's right, she has no idea how wrong this all is. Pregnant women are vulnerable enough without falling prey to mad cults that want to fuck up childbirth.

I think TC is a nasty bit of work. I can see him turning like Michael Jackson (not quite that bad.....) and buying the kid off KH if she doesn't do things quite his way.
When they split, I reckon he will get custody. Just a feeling I have