So, are you scarred for life (another thread about TomKat)

[imsorry]

because the doctor told your mother to push when you were being born? Can you remember anything before the age of 4? I was just reading about Katie Holmes and the silent birth method. MHO:

 

[Maleficent13]

See my siggie.

 

[Robinrs]

I think this poor child is scarred already by having a lunatic for a Dad and a milquetoast for a Mama...

 

[ford family]

Everyone has the right to follow a wacky religion.
Some abuse the privilege.

ford family

 

[chris1gill]

Everyone has the right to follow a wacky religion.
Some abuse the privilege.

ford family

You guys are hysterical.... but, on the other hand, maybe this explains how I turned out

 

[diznygirl]

A nice quiet atmosphere for giving birth sounds ideal. If someone could have shut up those women down the hall from me who were screaming in pain, I would have appreciated it!!!

imsorry - another Bocelli fan here!

 

[luvmydogs]

Dear Lord, my poor son. I had an emergency c-section because I had gone into kidney failure when I was only seven months along. There must've been 97 medical people in that room all making lots of noise, along with every machine imaginable. A team of Drs. and nurses pulled him out, whisked him away really fast and hooked him up to all these loud, life-saving devices, too--oh the horror!

I can't say that he was traumatized by all this at-birth noise, but I think I've just figured out why when he's only a foot away from me, he feels the need to scream, "MOM!!!"

 

[CathrynRose]

A purely curious reason (possibly it was the South Park episode...) had me look up Scientology, in a whole.

The "Silent Birth" was the LEAST of it's wacky things....

Fantastic Time Article from 1991 (which had the writer of it "stalked" for months afterwards:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html

And, from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu - they believe what?!?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

Katie is in for the ride of her life.

There's also a tomcruiseisnuts website.... spelled, just like that.

 

[bananiem]

I listened to Enya during labor and delivery. Now whenever my kids hear Orinoco Flow the go into seizures.

 

[minkydog]

A nice quiet atmosphere for giving birth sounds ideal. If someone could have shut up those women down the hall from me who were screaming in pain, I would have appreciated it!!!

me too I delivered on a busy day, so there was no privacy. I was "warehoused" with a 15yo girl who apparently had skipped the Lamaze classes and learned everything she knew about birth from watching old movies. She thrashed and kicked and screamed obscenities for hours! I was embarrassed to call my mother and tell her the baby was born. Man, by the end of that experience I was ready to pay for her epidural myself! I don't nkow if DS was traumatized, but i sure was.

 

[willis37862]

I am sure my DM screamed during my birth. And she sure yelled at me and DB growing up. But I am normal except for the uncontrollable twitching and the foil hat I wear to keep the aliens from controlling my mind.

 

[LukenDC]

I can remember some things from the age of one or so, but certainly not being born. If a noisy birth environment leads to developmental problems, then mankind has been troubled since the existance of the very first humans.

I'd be more concerned about having Tom Cruise as a father than I would being exposed to a noisy delivery room.

 

[chris1gill]

I can't say that he was traumatized by all this at-birth noise, but I think I've just figured out why when he's only a foot away from me, he feels the need to scream, "MOM!!!"

That's FUNNY

But on a serious note, if she needed a C section due to some energency, what would happen? Would she say NO? That could be life threatening....

If you ask me, Nicole got out right in time!

 

[tar heel]

Did any of you read the Tom Cruise story in yesterday's Parade? There's a part near the end about Katie coming in to be introduced that is just incredible. It described Katie as beautiful and vacant and definitely suggests that Tom jumps into actor mode when she walks in. It was a totally bizarre couple of paragraphs.

 

[salmoneous]

My mom was completely silent during my birth. I guess that is typical when you are zonked out asleep. No trauma for me, or mom, but mom is kinda creeped out that c-sections are now done with only local anesthesia.

 

[robertsmom]

That's FUNNY

But on a serious note, if she needed a C section due to some energency, what would happen? Would she say NO? That could be life threatening....

If you ask me, Nicole got out right in time!

I agree 100%!! Maybe someday someone can get Katie away from that Scientology "assistant" of hers long enough for de-programming.

 

[Becky2005]

Hmm...THAT explains a lot - heck my mom was knocked out with gas when I was born because her water broke on a Sunday and I wasn't born to the next Friday because she wasn't having contractions. The doctor told her to wait until the contractions started before she came in.

OH and add to that my mom is AB- and I'm + this was way before they gave those shots for the moms that were negative.

She got yelled at for waiting so long to come to the hospital for my brother (who is older) in case they needed a blood transfusion for her. Guess she took that heart and gave them a week's notice before I showed up.

Actually, looking at what they do now and when I was born - it's a wonder I survived...I think I turned out normal (oh, wait...maybe I'm not and just don't know it yet because I don't usually have a clue what the new correct way for parenting is.)

 

[kimmikayb]

that explain why I go towards the light everytime someone says PUSH!

 

[robertsmom]

Actually, looking at what they do now and when I was born - it's a wonder I survived...I think I turned out normal (oh, wait...maybe I'm not and just don't know it yet because I don't usually have a clue what the new correct way for parenting is.)

LOL! I think this often! When I think about how people my age were raised (I slept on my stomach as a baby, had a walker, wore coats with strings on the hoods, rode in the front seat of the car, etc.) it's a miracle any of us survivied.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I was 2 weeks overdue and epidurals weren't around yet. I say she deserved to scream as loud as she wanted to. Didn't scar me bit.