Boston Globe
Feb. 18, 2000

Science, please
John Travolta 's wife, Kelly Preston, will be having a ''quiet birth'' when she delivers her second child, due next month, the (N.Y.) Daily News reports. According to the teaching of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the delivery room will be hushed ''so there's nothing in the child's mind that shouldn't be there while there's pain going on,'' said Travolta. Preston, however, will be allowed to moan in pain. ''The sounds are not as detrimental,'' her husband said. ''Any people saying any kind of negative verbiage may adversely affect the baby later on.''

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