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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
Is your MALE LO circumcised? Clicky Poll
Who's decision was it?
EDIT: Good Lord ladies! You know what I mean!
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Re: Is your MALE LO circumcised? Clicky Poll
SS - LO is a girl
ETA - Sorry, I knew what you meant, but I couldn't help myself.
I mostly left it up to DH (who is not circumcised). He was going to do it, but decided not to in the end.
One less thing to take care of after LO was born, too.
He thought that at first, and I gave him the same explanation.
This exactly. Except that DH isn't self conscious about it. He said no one ever gave him any shiit over it.
BFP 11/29 - m/c @ 5w
Hahahah! It made me laugh. I should have seen this coming with this group!
I don't have a DS yet but DH (who is not circumcised) already stated - there is no way his son will be circumcised. I don't really feel strongly about it one way or the other so, we probably won't in the future.
ss. we both decided no although fi is. i did a lot of research and decided no, and fi said that although he is he's never thought any different of those who aren't, and the people he was around never made an issue about it.
i voted ss because ds was born partially circumcised anyways.
Oh poor guy! That stinks that you put all the time and effort making a decision and then couldn't follow through with it. Is he going to have to have surgery?
no, neither DH nor DS are, we thought about doing it but DH told me that pretty much no one here is circumcised and other kids would look at DS as if he was somehow "weird"
(even if DH has played soccer for over 20 years and they always have open locker rooms/showers he has only met 2 guys that were circumcised)
My ds is not circumcised because we were on the fence about it and peds thought he was border line too small at birth. he was only 5lbs and they suggested we wait. Now we have to decide if we want to put him under general anethesia to do it. Do you think it's worth it?
Same here. I had prefered that he not be, and was very relieved to find out DH felt the same. For me it was because I have been told by uncirced friends that sex is better, and because I would never condone female circumcision. DH said he always felt that his body had been mutilated because he is and he didnt want to do that to our kid.
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I wish we could just look into the future and find out if our kids will hate us for these decisions. DH wasn't circumcised. His parents were Portuguese immigrants and his mother claims they never asked him. He said no one ever gave him any crap about it and he's not self conscious. He really wanted DS done though. His reason is that it would be easier to take care of. I would have been fine without it done and was kind of leaning that way but inevitable left it up to DH.
Sorry I'm rambling. To answer your question...if I were in your shoes I wouldn't. General anesthesia freaks me out for LO. Not for something that is essentially cosmetic.
We went through the same thing with DS. He also had hypospadias, and had surgery to correct it when he was 9 months old. He was circ'd during the surgery.
He would have been circ'd anyway, though.
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no surgery needed thank goodness! i didn't even know it was possible to be born circumcised! we want to have another and if we have another boy we still won't circimcise so the research was useful, but we're just glad ds is healthy so we're not bothered
I had only seen the purely medical "pro" arguments and studies for circumcision before LO was born. I am a medical student and had only seen complications and talked to doctors not-so-knowledgeable on the foreskin. I did not want to deny my son a procedure which would be beneficial to him. DH is circ'd and likes the way he is so he was on board from that perspective and given the medical "benefits" I was touting.
Fast forward 3 months after birth and I realized I had likely made a huge mistake, that the foreskin is not something to be feared, and that there is a distinct possibility my son will be unhappy with the choice I made for him.
I would not do it again. I wish this weren't my story, but there you go.
DS2 - Oct 2010 (my VBAC baby!)
Hmm.. I guess i should have prayed about it.
Seriously, if I sit here and let myself think about it - I wonder how it is there was so much I didn't know. I was floored when I found out.
I would give up my index finger to give my son his foreskin back. Right now.
Why judge? Maybe if everyone you're judging had access to the same information and viewpoints that you have, you could judge. But this isn't always the case. Sure, some are convinced its best and necessary and would never change their minds, but there are others out there who were sorely misinformed by the medical establishment, their peers, society as a whole, etc. I think it's best to be gentle.
We were going to, but LO had a natural circumcision. He has a short foreskin. When he was born the doc said that if we wanted to remove the foreskin completely, they would have to call in a pediatric urologist and we probably wouldn't be able to do it for at least another week or so. We decided just to forget it and let him go "au naturel"
ETA: I'm glad we didn't have it done. Looking back, I realize how unnecessary it would have been anyway.
It was a unanimous decision between my FI and me. We had info and still choose to have DS circumcised. My dad was not circumcised and had to have it done when he was in his 50s. My friend's son had a friend that had to be circumcised at 13 yrs. old. Call me crazy but I didn't want to take the chance and have DS go through this when he was older. I knew it was best to have done when he was first born and couldn't remember. We also had no issues and at every check up so far the pedi tells us how great my OB preformed it and how great it has healed. You can judge me all you want I stand by my decision 100%
My dad and my friend's son's friend both wished they had it done when they were infants. My FI said he is glad his parents did it too. Like I said I stand by our decision 100%. This is just something we will have to agree to disagree on this one. :-D