Wow.  Tom and Katie has a new baby girl name Suri.  That is so wonderful.  What's even more wonderful is that Suri was born silently.  Words and sounds during traumatic experiences can affect a person emotionally for the rest of their life, where birth can be particularly traumatic for both the mother and child. 

As a founding principle of Dianetics and Scientology, noise, sounds and words during this time will create unnecessary and unwanted emotions, aches and pains later in life.  Therefore, peace and quite during moments of pain and unconciousness is central to the philosophy of Dianetics and Scientology.  Many news articles touch on this topic and the media has made quite a sensation about it, but once you truly understand the mechanics of the mind, you would really want to respect the well-being of someone by being quiet during child labor.

As a mother myself and a Scientologist for many years, I value the medical professionals who had the decency to honor my wishes and avoid as many words, sounds and noises as possible.  By this is meant that during the days or hours before child birth, a series of hand signals can be created to allow for communication between the medical practioners.  This reduced unnecessary sounds and speech from entering the delivery.  All existing, proven and recommended medical procedures are utilized.  Only the avoidance of unnecessary speech and sounds is practised.  Really to understand this fully, one must get a copy of Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health.

Few know the truths about Scientology.  There is nothing more revealing about a religion than their codes and creeds.  Here is a short list:

Creed of the Church of Scientology
Church of Scientology's Code of Honor
The Aims of Scientology

On the topic of what is Scientology, really?  The most obvious place to look is, of course, What is Scientology?  Or, you can always look at the official Church of Scientology website.  Or if you prefer a third party interpretation, go to the Center for Studies on New Religions, which as an overview of Scientology.

There you go.  That should give you a good sense of Scientology.  My personal recommendation is always to just go in and find out more for yourself.

Okay.  You're pregnant, and a little tired.  Maybe even a little overwhelmed.  So you go to your doctor.  He tries to help.  He prescribes Paxil.  Did you know you are risking the health of your unborn child?  Read this.....

FDA: Paxil Linked to Birth Defects

By Peggy Peck , MedPage Today Staff Writer
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 8-The FDA warned doctors today that preliminary results implicate the antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) with an increased risk of birth defects.

The FDA informed doctors that results of new studies suggest that Paxil use during the first trimester increases the risk of congenital heart defects in the developing fetus.

The FDA advised physicians to discuss the potential risk of birth defects with women taking Paxil who plan to become pregnant or who are in the first trimester of pregnancy. Doctors should consider discontinuing Paxil in these patients and switching to another antidepressant if indicated. In some patients, the benefits of continuing Paxil may be greater than the potential risk to the fetus, the FDA said.

In general, however, the FDA advised that the drug should not be taken during pregnancy. But women who are taking Paxil should consult their physicians before stopping the drug. The FDA action was prompted by results of two studies that showed that women who took Paxil during the first three months of pregnancy were about one and a half to two times as likely to have a baby with a heart defect as women who received other antidepressants or women in the general population. The most common defects were atrial and ventricular septal defects that ranged in severity from minor, self-resolving defects to serious defects that required surgical repair.

The FDA said that in one of the studies, the risk of heart defects in babies whose mothers had taken Paxil early in pregnancy was about 2%, compared with a 1% expected risk in the general population. In the other study, the risk of heart defects in babies whose mothers had taken Paxil in the first three months of pregnancy was 1.5% compared to 1% risk for women taking other antidepressants.

The FDA said it asked Paxil's manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, to change the drug's label to upgrade the pregnancy warning from a category C to a category D, a higher level warning. The company changed the label two months ago to add data from one of the studies. The latest label change reflects data from both studies, the FDA said.

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NOTED AUTHOR SPEAKS OUT

Robert Whitaker, author of the groundbreaking book Mad In America, explains how the nation's mammoth psychiatric drug industry has been endangering the American public.

Next, he exposes massive lies and cover-ups used to corrupt the Food and Drug Administration's drug review process.

Then, he let's us in on aggressive tactics used by giant drug companies to silence their prominent critics...

Click here for the full interview

 Don't forget to check out their Link on "The Dangers of AntiDepressants."  There are some pretty chilling quotes from both literature and history.

 

Sleeping with puppies can be a challange.  Here is my husband's viewpoint:

It’s 5:00 in the morning, and I need a short break.   

I’m exhausted. 

I’m trying to sleep in a bed with the Power Snugglers. 

I remember how it was with Zoë.  You would be lying asleep on your side.  She would align her spine with yours, slam it into you then get traction with her four long legs and push.  You would have to find some kind of toe-hold and knee-hold and elbow-hold in the fabric of the bed to hold your position and avoid being pushed out.  She liked it that way.  It wasn’t a temporary thing.  The pressure was good for her repose.  The next thing you know she would be snoring while you’re grabbing for handfuls of mitered sheet and bed pad to create the counterforce necessary for a stationary ridge.   

But that was nothing.   

Now there are two of them.  They are no less determined to set up the pressure.  But they have additional tools.  Like a wet nose in the back of your knee, breathing in and out.  No reasonable amount of adjustment gets that nose out of the knee (they have long noses and long necks, which gives them a remarkable range based on any give position of the upper body.) 

So I roll over.  I figure a nose in the kneecap is less likely.  As I do so, the dogs pour into every open space and by the time I accomplish the change I’m almost laying on top of them rather than next to them.  They don’t mind this.  They sleep on top of each other all the time.  But the one with the nose (it’s dark, how am I supposed to know which one it is) readjusts and puts the nose in my armpit.  So I make another adjustment.  It winds up on my neck.  Then my crotch.   

“Uncle,” I cried.  I gave the bed over to the power snugglers and came in here to write this plea to the Gods of pressure sleeping.   

I’m refreshed.  I’m ready to go back and try again.

Here's a chilling news report printed yesterday.  It sounds so "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" doesn't it?  These guys just never clean up their act.   For more information check out:
Citizen's Commission on Human Rights.  This website has tones of data on the falsehoods perpetrated by the psychiatric and drug industries.


washingtonpost.com Report Criticizes Calif. Mental Hospital

By KIM CURTIS
The Associated Press
Thursday, July 28, 2005; 8:55 PM

SAN FRANCISCO -- Patients at a state mental hospital overdosed on illegal drugs, were improperly restrained for hours on end and were forced to spend 12 hours in soiled diapers, according to a scathing report issued by the U.S. Justice Department.

The report said the problems were among "widespread and systematic deficiencies" at Napa State Hospital, including suicide and inadequate medical care. Some patients were bathed only every two to four weeks, the report said.

State officials were given until Aug. 15 to implement "minimum remedial measures" at the mental hospital, which has about 1,100 patients.

Lupe Rincon, a hospital spokeswoman, said many allegations were based on inaccurate information from family members, advocates and old surveys. But she said she could not respond to specific complaints.

"Releasing further information could compromise our negotiations for a settlement agreement" with the Justice Department, she said.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office had no response to the report, contained in a June 27 letter to him, and directed inquiries to the state Department of Mental Health.

The Justice Department investigation began in January 2004. The California Department of Mental Health has refused to cooperate, repeatedly preventing access to the facility, said the letter from Bradley J. Schlozman, acting assistant attorney general. A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Department of Mental Health spokeswoman Kirsten Macintyre said Thursday the department did not deny access, but simply asked for a delay because an investigation is "a huge diversion of resources" and because time and money was already being spent on preparing for the hospital's reaccreditation, which takes place this fall.

"I'm not saying we're perfect on patient care," said Macintyre, who added that the department already has improved some of its problem areas. "But you have to present things in a fair light."

The report also said that hospital staff punished patients who sought release, failed to provide English interpreters and refused to intervene during violent episodes among patients.

Three patients also overdosed on methamphetamine or cocaine in the fall of 2004 and one died, according to the report. Three other patients were able to use heroin, the report said.

Restraints and seclusion also are overused at Napa, according to the Justice Department. The report cited one patient who was restrained for 369 consecutive hours.

Quite remarkably, the APA admitted to Tom Cruise's statements that psychiatry is a pseudoscience wherein chemical imbalance has no scientific proof.  You can read about it in the press article AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION ADMITS THERE IS NO TEST FOR “CHEMICAL IMBALANCE”.

These little gals go up and down the stairs now.  It's a real effort but they can do it.  Sigh.  We still carry them up to bed at night so they don't get riled up and want to play. 

We went to see a high school play tonight, "Arsenic and Old Lace."  It is truly a classic piece of work.  One of the daffy aunts was played by a teenage male.  He was cast because during auditions they needed someone to read the lines for someone else who was audtioning.  He so aced the part that he was cast as Aunt Martha.  He was brilliant and wonderfully funny.  I found myself mesmerized by his antics.  My friends' son was absolutely brilliant in the part of Dr. Einstein and he had an empathy for the character that transcended the comedy and added a hint of drama.

We came home to puppies that were ready to exercise.  They played frantically for over an hour, chasing each other about the yard and in the house.  At one point they were running in circles around my office, making a complete circuit as one chased the other.  It was so inventive and cute.

Zsa Zsa stood on Daddy's feet and used his legs as protective pillars from Ziva, who was attacking hard.  They worked themselves into a little frenzy. 

My husband picked up one dog, and I held the other.  We went into separate rooms and after a fair amount of squirming (I'm reminded of the first time I caught a trout on a hook), my puppy settled down and started to stare into my eyes, trying to keep herself awake so she could listen to my babbling and cooing.  She finally fell asleep. 

My husband called from upstairs and surprised me by telling me his flopping fish had settled down.  So we gently placed them in their crate.  There was a burst of energy as if they thought they wanted to play, then total exhaustion took over and they fell fast asleep and we haven't heard a word since.