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Circumcision?
If you have/are going to have a boy, will you be getting him circumcised?
I don't intend to start a debate... I hate the idea of the procedure, and after doing some research it sounds like the rates are falling... they say only 32% of newborns were circ'd in 2010. I am wondering what parents in our home state are choosing to do?
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Re: Circumcision?
nope. I don't do cosmetic procedures on my children without their consent. DD will not have her ears pierced until she asks for the same reason.
There is no medical reason to, and no major medical professional association in the world recommends it as a routine procedure.
The foreskin holds a lot of sensation for men during sex, and I I don't think it's fair of me to decide he can't have that.
If our dd would have been a boy, my dh would have said yes to getting him circumsized and I was against it.
Photo taken at 16 months old
We plan to.
Mr.A is, I left it up to DH as it was "his area"
it was very easy & it was done when he was 1 day old. The Dr said he only had a fit when they were all done & moving on to the next little boy ...We know from the very start he was a flit & didn't like getting push aside.
DH is not and I left that decision completely up to him. He said he felt very teased growing up and our child would have it.
Now that it is becoming more common if we cross that I am hoping to talk to him more about it.
I left that decision up to SO. He is so he wanted DS to be as well. That was that.
Yep, we did it - it was a decision we both felt was the right one. I realize times have changed, but there was one guy in HS that wasn't and the amount of badgering/kidding he took because of it has stuck with me throughout the years.
Plus, I've heard that the current stats may not be as accurate as thought due to more and more Peds performing this procedure in-clinic(because of insurance/costs) as opposed to the hospital and this throwing the stats off.
Peds are still to report circumcisions done in clinic, just like any other procedure or illness the CDC is tracking.
We did, we both agreed pretty quickly that we wanted it done.
If you do decide to do it, call your insurance company to make sure they cover it since it's an elective procedure.
Eliot. Born 6/18/10
Missed m/c discovered 1/6/12 at 8-9 weeks
D&C 1/10/12
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Exactly this. We felt this was an important decision to make as a couple and we came to the conclusion that it was ridiculous to put LO through an unnecessary cosmetic procedure.
I dont' really care what other people do...
But I'm just curious, how often do you expect your LO to be looking at your DH's penis as an adult? And obviously a child's penis looks different from an adult's even if they are both intact, or both cut.
I just couldn't imagine ever comparing my vagina to my mother's vagina... So I guess that's why that reasoning doesn't really make sense to me.
You do know that by the time he is old enough to actually "look like daddy" down there he is going to be way past the age of wondering why right? The main difference they will notice at the age they will be questioning is that daddy has hair and he does not.
Not to mention how often is he going to really see daddy naked for a long enough time to even think to question it?
To each there own, I really do not care one way or another what others do. I just find this to be one of the odd reasons for doing it.
they have to match for the matching wang pictures, duh!