Uncircumcised penis help. Very TMI.

bumpuser5078523 · December 2014

This will be long and I will probably sound like a complete idiot, but I don't care. All for the love of our babies.

Background: Anders isn't circumcised yet. We have to wait until he is one because his urethra opening might be slightly off center. I can't remember what they call it. He is currently 3 months.

I have a call into the nurse for an appointment but haven't heard back yet.

About a week and a half ago I was giving the boys a bath and noticed two little white spots right at the edge of his foreskin. I know you aren't supposed to retract it, but with his issue, doctors have been messing with it. Also, his foreskin doesn't completely cover the tip of his penis. There is a tiny opening, which is why they suspect his urethra opening might be slightly off.

The spots were a little bigger than a poppy seed and kind of like ricotta cheese (sorry, that's super gross, but I don't know how else to describe it). It wasn't smelly. It was in a tiny pocket and the edges were a little red. I wiped most of it out, but I couldn't get all of it and I didn't want to mess with it too much.

I just noticed that he has another spot and you can still see where the other two spots were. And his urethra is slightly red.

I didn't mess with it this time.

Does anyone have experience with this? Should I be doing anything extra since his foreskin is a little short? Is he having problems because doctors have messed with it? Any advice is appreciated.

Mandmeesh · December 2014

I don't know exactly what the spots could be, I think maybe just smegma. Which is normal. But I do know that you should never ever retract the skin. When he takes baths I would just make sure that his penis is submerged under the water to help clean it

zaraceligon · December 2014

My first kid had them, it's normal for some babies boys to have it. They will splot or come out with the time, or sometimes the doctor will put pressure on them to remove all the fat( the white color) but eventually they will come out by is own.

bumpuser5078523 · December 2014

So this is normal? It is really worrying me.

We have an appointment for tomorrow morning.

I feel dumb, I don't have any experience with this sort of stuff.

Mandmeesh · December 2014

If it looks like ricotta cheese, yes. It's smegma

And I would guess his urethra is red due to messing with it

unaveragejane · December 2014

Do circumcised boys get smegma, too? I thought it was lint from the diapers.

Smallllmin · December 2014

Try not to worry. Happens to my kid all the time.

Circumcised babies also have skin covering the area that you're talking about.
The grossness just gets stuck in there sometimes.
It's just yuck from dead skin, sweat, etc.

Breath, mama

Mandmeesh · December 2014

unaveragejane said:
Do circumcised boys get smegma, too? I thought it was lint from the diapers.

Yes. They do

Kelly11235 · December 2014

Totally normal. Happens to my husband sometimes too (he's not circumcised).

Just try to keep it as clean as you can without retracting the skin.

bumpuser5078523 · December 2014

She said it's normal and nothing to worry about. If his foreskin was longer like it should be, we wouldn't have noticed it. She also said that it's like he's partially circumcised and his foreskin is adhering in a couple spots, which is why he has some small red spots. She said to gently wash it with a cloth in the bath.

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