Did you circumcise?

desabean · April 2012

I feel like this might be a hot button issue and I certainly am not trying to start a debate but just curious....we are 95% sure that is our plan but every once in a while DH seems to have guilt over it.
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MonkeysGirl05 · April 2012

LOL... I saw the title of the post and I thought "strike up the controversy band". Glad to see it is all civil so far.

njohnson1972 · April 2012

Yes, but we did have a moment of regret when we first took that bandage off and looked at his fire red, angry little penis. We thought "what did we do to our son?" But now 9 months later, we don't even think about it.

I don't judge those that leave their sons intact. I think it is a personal decision.

schoolsoutbride · April 2012

nope x3

dundasgirl · April 2012

Wow, I would never have guessed that result to the poll!

queenbone · April 2012

No, for various reasons. And after reading that post below I am so glad we left them intact so I don't have to deal with all that smegma! hahaha! That sounds like a lot of work.

Mouseygail · April 2012

dundasgirl:
Wow, I would never have guessed that result to the poll!

I was thinking the same thing! I thought for sure it would be closer to 50/50 these days. I guess the intact crowd is noisier..ha!

queenbone · April 2012

Mouseygail:
dundasgirl:
Wow, I would never have guessed that result to the poll!
I was thinking the same thing! I thought for sure it would be closer to 50/50 these days. I guess the intact crowd is noisier..ha!

My friend is a nurse and she told me that it actually is closer to 50/50 nowadays. I guess just not here

ela81 · April 2012

queenbone:

Mouseygail:
dundasgirl:
Wow, I would never have guessed that result to the poll!
I was thinking the same thing! I thought for sure it would be closer to 50/50 these days. I guess the intact crowd is noisier..ha!

My friend is a nurse and she told me that it actually is closer to 50/50 nowadays. I guess just not here

It may have somthing to do with the area b/c I don't know any non circ'ed little boy (or adult ones for that matter Stick out tongue ). My cousin used to work in l&d and she said most people still circ, we live in the same general area.

MonkeysGirl05 · April 2012

queenbone:

Mouseygail:
dundasgirl:
Wow, I would never have guessed that result to the poll!
I was thinking the same thing! I thought for sure it would be closer to 50/50 these days. I guess the intact crowd is noisier..ha!

My friend is a nurse and she told me that it actually is closer to 50/50 nowadays. I guess just not here

From my understanding, it can be very regional. I don't know anyone around here (off the top of my head, within my circle of friends), that hasn't circ'ed their boys.

dundasgirl · April 2012

In Ontario circumcision isn't covered by OHIP (the government health program that all residents are entitled to). I don't know about other provinces. It used to be covered and I think almost a given that a boy would be circumcised. At our prenatal classes they told us it is about 60intact/40circ. in our area...and we live in a very multicultural city.

I was born in Nova Scotia in 1978. Right when I was born was the turning point in that province. Boys older than me were all circumcised, and then those younger were more often left intact. I found this out when talking to my girlfriends when we were all having babies. DH is circ. and his younger brother isn't! MIL is funny when she talks about it. She was so passive back then even with something this major. She just did what the doctors recommended. No questions asked!

charmcitygirl · April 2012

This is kind of a given, but it can also be a religious thing. Both of my boys had a bris - the Jewish rite of passage that includes a circumcision.

cbubbles2 · April 2012

We really struggled with this decision. After much discussion and research we couldn't find any medical reason to do it and we didn't have a cultural/religious reason either.

However, if it were solely my decision I would have done it. Because DH isn't, I felt that I couldn't lobby too hard for it without making MH feel bad.

Yellow_Daisy · April 2012

We did and most of the people we know with boys, which is pretty much everyone we know, did. The only people I know that didn't tend to be a little more hippy/crunchy :-). I know that is a total generalization, but for my circle that's how it's just ended up breaking down.

emiannie · April 2012

I left it entirely up to my DH since he's the one WITH the penis. He chose to do it because he is circ'd and thought it would be easier to explain things, if necessary, if they were working with the same-looking equipment.

In our area, it's probably 50/50, but in all of our friends we know no one who didn't circumcise.

emiannie · April 2012

emiannie:
I left it entirely up to my DH since he's the one WITH the penis. He chose to do it because he is circ'd and thought it would be easier to explain things, if necessary, if they were working with the same-looking equipment.
In our area, it's probably 50/50, but in all of our friends we know no one who didn't circumcise.

Oh and also, a nasty MIL tidbit. She's proud because she saved the "circumcision ring" from when DH was circ'd. I'm totally 100% skeeved out by this.

LVBlvd · April 2012

Yes. I don't know anyone IRL who isn't or didn't circ their sons. It would have never entered my mind not to, had I not been a member if this board.

Quite pleased with our decision. Easy, peasy! The boys didn't even cry.

desabean · April 2012

emiannie:
emiannie:
I left it entirely up to my DH since he's the one WITH the penis. He chose to do it because he is circ'd and thought it would be easier to explain things, if necessary, if they were working with the same-looking equipment.
In our area, it's probably 50/50, but in all of our friends we know no one who didn't circumcise.
Oh and also, a nasty MIL tidbit. She's proud because she saved the "circumcision ring" from when DH was circ'd. I'm totally 100% skeeved out by this.

holy crap.

swgal · April 2012

Funny, of all the friends I know who have boys, not one of them has circumcised. It is definitely not the norm to do so here.

dana316 · April 2012

We did. I was sooooo hesistant to do it, but we decided to go ahead with it. I am very pleased with the result...Parker never cried and never acted like it bothered him.

Oh, and he doesn't have smegma, lol.

Germanwife2b · April 2012

Honestly- most of my friends do NOTcircumcise. Martin would kill me if I chose to circ one of our sons. I will not enter this debate (although I have some pretty strong feelings about it) but I just wanted you to know that in this area there are MANY people who are not doing it because they just don't see the necessity of it or in some cases (like my husband's) they think that it is a barbaric act. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have :-)

naflmj · April 2012

I voted yes because we did with Graeme but are considering not with the boys, no decision has been made though.

njdcgirl · April 2012

Nope. DH isn't (which I was surprised, b/c like many of you I didn't know many/any people who weren't) and he didn't want to. I defaulted to him, b/c I didn't have any good reasons to do it. All of my friends with kids and my nephews all are circ., but DH said that being intact was never a big deal for him growing up; in fact he didn't even know which of his friends were/were not.

So far, I'm good with our decision.

KayJayDee · April 2012

We didn't and we won't if we have another boy or boys. I had one friend who was pg with a boy at the same time that I was and we talked about it (they didn't either) and I talked it over with my sister (also pg at the time with a boy) and they did. I think it's a very personal decision and we're happy with the one we made.

LucyPevensie · April 2012

My son is intact, and I never even considered having him circumcised. For me, it is just a baffling way to welcome a baby boy into the world "Hi!! So glad you're here, now in a day or so we're gonna need you to hold still while we have part of your penis sliced off!"

I think if little boys of circ minded parents knew what was coming - they'd extend their stays in the womb.. just sayin'. OK I'll stop now. Keepin' it civil (sort of.)

firsttogo · April 2012

We did with both. I did not have a strong desire to do so, but DH felt strongly. I honestly do not find it any more barbaric than piercing ears of a baby.... It is pretty personal, and I don't judge non-circ'd men/boys, or the parents who leave the foreskin alone! DH knows no different, and also does not remember it happening, so I am not sure it emotionally scarred him in anyway.

kthappy76 · April 2012

Nope. DH isn't (it is uncommon practice in most of the rest of the world, which I don't think most ppl realize), but I was actually the one who had stronger feelings about it. If there were more compelling health reasons, I may have considered it, but the typical reasons: custom, religion, vanity, etc. weren't enough to sway me to have an otherwise non-objectionable part of his body removed. I would say of those I know who did, 99% of them did primarily b/c their DH is. After DS was born and was so tiny, DH told me he was very happy we had decided to pass when they asked about it at the hospital. He is perfect just the way he is TYVM.

cmw&tdm · April 2012

We didn't. DH isn't (from the UK) but even if he was I'm pretty sure we wouldn't. We are in Texas and the majority of people (vast majority of locals) circumcise but my crunchier (for lack of a better word) and international friends don't.

What helped me decide was doing a little research into the history of circumcision in the US and what the rest of the world does (like someone else said, pretty much only the US circumcises routinely for cosmetic/non-religious reasons).

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