Scientology and Silent Birth

With all the press about Scientology, Dianetics and silent birth - what's all the fuss? Would it be better to have a bunch of confusion, noise yak yak around the birth?

It's great that the information about a gentle and calm environment around birth is getting out - what it shows is the kindness, caring and love for the next generation that Mr. Hubbard wrote about in Dianetics.

What the Scientology site says about silent birth is: " Having a quiet, gentle birth is all about providing the best possible environment for the birthing mother and her new baby.
It is labor and delivery done in a calm and loving environment and with no-spoken words by everyone attending as much as possible. Chatty doctors and nurses, shouts to “PUSH, PUSH” and loud or laughing remarks to “encourage” are the types of things that are meant to be avoided."

That seems reasonable doesn't it.

Also, there are great and helpful things one can do to help a child or infant that you can read about and use on the volunteerministers.org site. Also, a new site silentbirth.org

When there's a lot of noise about something. Learn the facts and then - do the right thing and think for yourself.