For you moms with boys that are circumcised...
When did they do they procedure?
Who did it? Ped? OB? Urologist?
Did they do it in your room or did you or DH go with them if they did it elsewhere?
How long was the healing process?
I've only birthed a vag before, so I'm in the dark.
Sorry if these have already been posted. If so, point me in the right direction and I'll find it. Thanks!
Re: Penis questions for moms of circd boys...
I haven't had a boy yet, but my BFF had one a year ago.
They did it in the hospital the day after he was born, his ped did it. They did it in another room and both mom & dh can go, but only my BFF's dh went. I'm not absolutely positive of the healing process....I would say maybe 10-14 days. And it is not pretty! Blah I was really surprised by the way his poor little wanker looked.
The ped did it he was going to do it in the hospital but they had some breathing problems. So they got it done at a week old, at the office. The healing time was about 6 days for one and 8 for the other. And it depends on the doctor on if they let you watch or not.
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late to the game but I'll answer
They did the procedure when he was 2 days old. The OB did the procedure. They did NOT do it in our room and DH did NOT go with him. Healing proccess I believe was about a week-2 weeks. We just had to put vasoline (or whatever the hospital gave us) and gauze on it at every diaper change. It healed nicely.
We had a bris and a Mohel who is also a pediatric surgeon did it in our home on the 8th day... I didn't watch but everyone else and DH did and said it wasn't bad at all..... the first couple days it looks yucky and swollen but it got better and better everyday. We just caked on the Aquaphor all over (we were told no gauze because it can stick worse then the diaper) but we had no issues prob because we went through so much Aquaphor...haha. I made DH do the diaper changes at first because I felt so bad to touch it when it looked awful.... but he never cried or seemed uncomfortable during diaper changes.
We had ours done 2 weeks after birth, by a pedi, and my DH went in the room with him.
Healing took less than a week, only care was vaseline.