why is it that in Scientology they have to keep the baby from any sound for 2 weeks?

Answer 1

The guy who founded Scientology was a SciFi writer which made him a good researcher. The stuff in Scientology wasnt generally "invented" by him. Its just that now many of the techniques are more openly being used (now that you dont have to be medical or religion to make suggestions to peoples lives)

Here are various notes of mine from many places on the subject of Quiet Birth:
--------
According to SilentBirth.org
Is it true Scientologists can't talk or touch their baby for three days to a week? Are there supposed to be seven days of silence around the child after the birth?

Absolutely not, this is a complete fabrication and not a practice of the Scientology religion.
-------------------------------------------------
There is quite abit about the learning of early infants. Some even recommend that it start BEFORE birth (such as playing classical music to a mothers womb).
-------------------------------------------------
Doctors generally agree that shouting and loud noises are bad for children before birth and soon after birth. The keyphrases tend to be "tranquil, quiet, relaxed environment"
-------------------------------------------------
Many people recommend quiet birthing (silent birth is actually a misnaming even in scientology). It tends to be part of many midwifes, and a big part of the recommendation of water birthing.
---------------------------------------------------
Many birthing experts like to paint the picture of the child floating in warmth hearing its mothers heartbeat. Its becoming fairly common to make efforts to make the transition more gradual than just spitting the kid into cold and screaming environment then slapping its butt in some fast factory mode.
---------------------------------------------------
Midwives and nannies tend to disagree on how long to extend to gradual conversion to the "real world" of shouting arguing people

Answer 2

That is actually an extreme response to a general advice given by L.Ron Hubbard.

The basis is the concern that physical traumas at any time in life can be "restimulated" by the re-occurrence of conditions in some sense similar to the original trauma. This principle of dianetics has become a mainstream practice of modern psychology & "post-traumatic stress" treatment.

One such trauma which we all go through is the physical process of birth, which to the newborn is a physically stressful circumstance. Not too easy on the mother either. ;-)

Because of the known traumatic nature of the birth experience, scientologists try to minimize the phenomena associated with the experience which might later serve as "stress triggers". Thus the advice to maintain silence around newborns.

Visit Freezoneorg for answers to other questions. It is a website run by experienced scientologists who are NOT associated with the cultlike church of scientology.

Answer 3

I think they feel like it's traumitizing for the baby to go from the silence and comfort of the womb into the noisey world. They are trying to ease the baby into things. They don't allow any sound at all.. not even music. They also don't want mom screaming because they think the babies will unconsciously remember it and it will affect the mother/child relationship.

I don't know how I feel about that because the baby is used to hearing a heart beat and can hear your voice when it's in your belly. Babies receive comfort from their mother's voice. So I'm not sure that it's not more traumatizing for all sound to just stop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_birth

Answer 4

In scientology the birth of every child is grieved at because every child born signifies that another soul has been reborn into the physical bodily exile and shall henceforth be imprisoned for a lifetime and suffer all kinds of miseries that imprisonment entails. Like you pay respect for the departed souls by keeping a two minutes silence, the scientologists keep a two weeks silence at the terrible catastrophe of a unfulfilled soul being reborn into the physical exile of body.

Answer 5

Very commonly used. on the workplace I worked at, they in many cases would attempt to hold off till approximately 7 weeks. it actual relies upon on the perspective of your uterus besides the undeniable fact that it truly is totally uncomplicated to no longer see something at that ingredient. i'd ask for a stick to up ultrasound at 7 weeks. maximum of folk complication that the being pregnant is lost and lose desire or have a D&C while the ultrasound is preformed too early. there continues to be quite some desire for you. sturdy luck with the beta blood exams. If those numbers are doubling, you need to be sturdy! make particular they take greater beneficial than one pattern of the blood exams, they'd desire to do it the different day, atleast 2-thrice.

Answer 6

I dont know about keeping a baby from sound for 2 weeks but here is what i have read about it the birth

Women are encouraged to be as silent as possible and avoid taking drugs during birth. Newborns are deemed especially vulnerable to induced engrams and trauma transmitted from their mother or acquired from their environment.

an engram is defined as an unconscious, painful memory. It is stored in the stimulus-response unconsciousness (the reactive mind) rather than as a normal memory.

appearently, hearing ur mom yell out in pain when she delivers you will warp the baby's mind

Answer 7

lol, same reason as why you have to rest on the sabbath or pray 5 times a day. cuz religion is just a tool to keep the poor and uneducated people in line because without it, their lives would be hopeless and meaningless.

to be more specific tho, scientologists have some theory about isolation being a way to deal with evil spirits which may inhabit mentally ill people. maybe its some sort of preventative maintenance thing. lol, religion is so retarded, and any religious people who are reading this and are pissed off, youre retarded too LOL put those bibles and korans away and pick up something by nietzsche, you might actually learn something

Answer 8

It is not all sound simply sounds that can be associated with negativity I.E. yelling, screaming etc.

Scientologists believe it is better to bring a child into a calm environment rather than a chaotic environment.. As the babies first impressions will stay with them through out life...

Answer 9

We live and learn (well, some of us do!)
I didn't know that but I am very unschooled on scientology.
Now I thought that an unborn baby could hear in the womb ..... Mothers sing to them and play music to them. They can hear their mother's heartbeat ...
Religion is forever weird and, now, weirder still.

Answer 10

I was under the impression that it was only the mother's voice that the baby couldn't hear. So that the child would not associate the "trauma" of birth with it's mother.