Cruise, Holmes Have Baby Girl Named Suri

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Cruise, Holmes Have Baby Girl Named Suri
Apr 18, 7:12 PM (ET)


LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Tomkitten has arrived. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the high-profile pair dubbed "TomKat" by the media, had a baby girl Tuesday, said Cruise spokesman Arnold Robinson.

The baby, named Suri, weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 20 inches long, he said.

"Both mother and daughter are doing well," Robinson said in a prepared statement.

The name Suri has its origins in Hebrew, meaning "princess," or in Persian, meaning "red rose," the statement said.

The baby was born in Los Angeles but the exact location was not disclosed.

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The word "suri" appears to originate from the Aymara language (South America), and according to world-renowned ... expert Dr. Julio Sumar, refers to the lustrous quality exhibited by the feathers of a South American cousin of the Ostrich

[Njean31]

ssssshhhhhhhhhh.....be vewy vewy quiet ;)

[Specialk]

Yeah, SHHHH!!! Gotta be vewwy vewwy quiet!!!!

[YNKYH8R]

ssssshhhhhhhhhh.....be vewy vewy quiet ;) :confused: :confused: :confused:

[Njean31]

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Cruise, Holmes Likely to Have Quiet Birth



Wed Apr 12, 4:21 PM ET

Tom Cruise has been practically shouting from the rooftops about his love for his pregnant fiancee, Katie Holmes. But when their much-anticipated baby is born, the superstar dad probably won't say a word.

Cruise, a longtime Scientologist who introduced Holmes to the faith, is likely to follow Scientology's practice of quiet birth. Followers believe the absence of talk and other noise in the delivery room is more healthful for mother and baby.

No one's saying publicly where baby Cruise will enter the world, but if it is at the actor's Beverly Hills home then noise control might prove a challenge. Buzzing paparazzi are already camped aside the property.

With the little one expected soon, tabloids and gossip Web sites have been rife with chatter about silent birth, spawning much speculation about what it is and isn't.

Some are sure it means the mother can't make a peep during childbirth forget the popular image of a chaotic hospital-room scene with a laboring woman spewing invectives. Others have claimed silence must be maintained for a full week after the baby is born and that Scientology opposes medical exams for newborns.

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According to the tenets of Scientology, known as "Dianetics," words even loving ones spoken during birth and other painful times are recorded by the "reactive mind," or subconscious. Those memories, adherents feel, can eventually trigger problems for mother and child.

What the doctrine doesn't say is that laboring moms can't make some noise during delivery.

"We're not going for absolute silence," said self-professed "Scientology mom" Michelle Seward. "If a sound is made, that's OK."

After years studying the faith, established in 1950 by fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, Seward went the silent route for the birth of her son, Sage, five years ago.

Seward drew up a birth plan and discussed her desire for a wordless delivery with her doctor.

In the hospital delivery room, she used hand signals to communicate with her husband and mother. A nurse tapped her on the shoulder to tell her it was time to push. When a complication arose after 30 hours of labor, the doctor whispered to Seward that she would need an epidural.

"I had a happy, calm baby," she said. "I know it's because of the way I delivered him."

Actress Anne Archer, a Scientologist for 30 years, called the recent speculation about silent birth "ridiculous."

"We just want to keep the environment as calm, quiet and loving as possible," she said. "Any culture in the world would understand that and any woman who's given birth would understand that."

Scientology doesn't dictate where babies should be born or whether drugs can be used, she said.

Quiet birth "supplements whatever medical model the mother chooses," said Karin Pouw, a spokeswoman for the Church of Scientology International.

Beverly Hills obstetrician Stephen Rabin said he has never attended a silent birth but believes that verbal communication is key during delivery. While he supports limiting "extrinsic noise" and extraneous visitors in the delivery room, speaking to parents is still "extremely critical."

"It's almost impossible to do without words," he said. "You're not going to yell at the patient. You may talk to them in a calming fashion and the patient will gain comfort from hearing your voice."

Typical delivery-room talk might include direction on how to push and reassurance that the woman is doing it right, he said. A doctor may also need to explain pain medication or unexpected problems with the birth.

But as long as the planned approach isn't harmful, Rabin said, parents should choose the delivery method best for them.

Seward said silence doesn't just keep the subconscious clear, it also is more relaxing for the mother and less jarring for the newborn.

"The baby is coming from a dark womb," she said. "They come from a muted environment and they're thrust into this world."

Infants deserve to be born into a reverent place, agreed Mindy Goorchenko, a certified doula and birth educator whose own unassisted delivery of twins was featured on the Discovery Channel. The transition from the womb to the world should be peaceful, she said.

But moms, dads and doctors probably need to talk during delivery, Goorchenko noted.

"Communication is key in birth for all people involved," she said.

Sound can also be an effective means of working through labor, she added. Besides, the womb isn't as quiet as one might think; babies can hear voices, music and their mother's heartbeat, Goorchenko said.

"Infants respond in the womb to what's going on around them," she said. "Why at the moment of birth you'd suddenly need silence doesn't make sense physiologically."

Still, said Goorchenko, a mother of four, she wanted privacy during her deliveries and preferred silence following the births.

"You don't need loud, blasting noises while mother and child are bonding."


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Suri Cruise makes world debut Tuesday

LOS ANGELES - With a cherubic face and a shock of dark hair, Suri Cruise — subject of the world's most anticipated baby photo — made her broadcast debut Tuesday.

Katie Couric, in her first night as anchor of the `CBS Evening News', revealed photos of 4 1/2-month-old Suri, daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

Born April 18, Suri has not appeared in any published photographs, prompting some public speculation about her very existence.

But baby Suri is for real and there are pictures of her and her famous parents in the issue of Vanity Fair that hits newsstands Wednesday.

Vanity Fair would not release the baby pictures to The Associated Press Tuesday evening.

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( So Katie's idea of hard hitting news thats really important is showing off celeb's baby pics ) :rolleyes:

[43Cindee]

I'd rather see other baby pictures than Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes baby, I use to like Tom Cruise but after attacking Brooke Shields, I can't stand the guy. I myself have been taking meds for anixety attacks and agoraphobia and in his mind I should be taking vitaimns(believe me I tried this, It didn't work)I guess in my mind what goes around comes around, Good Luck Tom Cruise

[Jolie Rouge]

Photographic Proof: Suri Exists
By Joal Ryan Wed Sep 6, 1:40 PM ET

The Taliban are on the move again in Afghanistan. And, in other news, Suri Cruise has two eyes, a nose and a full head of hair.

Katie Couric's Tuesday debut as anchor of the CBS Evening News doubled as the coast-to-coast debut of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' supposedly mysterious child.

The Suri Cruise segment did not top Couric's newscast--the feature on the Taliban did--but it did rate a mention in the opening tease, with the successor to Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather promising to show off "the baby picture everyone has been waiting for."

True to her word, Couric unveiled the cover of the October Vanity Fair, featuring an Annie Liebovitz-shot portrait of Cruise making like Paul McCartney on 1970's McCartney album and cradling Suri inside his leather jacket as Holmes looks on.


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The issue goes on sale in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday, and elsewhere on Sept. 12.

The cover photo was taken in July in Telluride, Colorado, Vanity Fair said. Inside, the issue is said to boast 22 further pages of photographic proof that Suri-sighters Leah Remini, Jada Pinkett Smith and Penelope Cruz were not victims of mass hallucination.

The so-called "family portfolio" also features an interview with Holmes, who has been out of sight almost as much as her daughter since "joyously welcom[ing]" Suri last Apr. 18.

Per excerpts published on Vanity Fair's Website, Holmes sounds vexed by speculation that Suri either didn't exist or did exist, but with antennae or some such abnormality. "It's really frustrating the amount of sh-t that's out there," Holmes says in the magazine. "And the stuff they say about Suri?! You shouldn't say that about us, and you can't say that about my child."

Per Holmes, you also can't say what you've been saying about her someday husband-to-be. "To see how someone as caring and good as Tom is--to see how things can just get so twisted and turned around," Holmes says. "I mean, where does it come from?"


Also speaking to the magazine, Cruise says he and Holmes "always planned to release [family photos of Suri] at the right time."

"[But] then all this craziness began," Holmes says in the interview. "This 'Where is Suri?' controversy. Tom and I looked at each other and said, 'What's going on?' We weren't trying to hide anything."


Cruise notes that Leibovitz became the natural choice for Suri's coming-out because she shot Isabella and Connor, his children adopted with ex-wife Nicole Kidman, in their younger days.


Elsewhere, Holmes calls Suri a "glorious girl" who is the "miracle of our life," bats down rumors of a rift between her family and Cruise, and explains that Cruise bought a sonogram for her doctor's use, not his own. (According to Holmes, it was easier for the M.D. to come to their house, rather than having the paparazzi-tracked couple go to the doctor's office. Her explanation might come too late for sonogram-aspiring Californians who might be outlawed from purchasing such equipment by a Cruise-inspired bill currently awaiting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's long John Hancock.)


On the CBS Evening News, the Suri Cruise photos were part of a package called "Snap Shots." Tuesday's new-look broadcast also featured theme music by Titanic's James Horner, a Cronkite-voiced intro, a leg-revealing opening shot of the black-and-white-clad Couric and a vow that Wednesday would bring an interview with Shiloh Jolie-Pitt.


Sorry, President Bush.

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