How Long . . .

. . . do you think this will last?

It has been suggested that (Katie) Holmes will attempt a silent labor in keeping with Scientology tradition.

The practice encourages mothers to be to forgo painkillers and to refrain from screaming or even talking as they bring their children into the world. Scientologists believe that the silence reduces trauma during birth and prevents irrational fears later in life.

via Yahoo! News

I had a textbook, dream labor.

Quick, easy, simple, and fast.

And there were painkillers. I could rhapsodize on the delights of epidurals for hours . . .

And there was talking.

And much swearing.

The Boy's only irrational fear is that Santa will drop his present somewhere over the Ukraine again . . .