Poll just to see what was more popular/common on circumcision

Cook3133 · January 2016

I was just curious on how common it is/will be to be circumcised or not. Not wanting to have a debate on it just curious on what the numbers will show and if it leans more to one side or the other.? What did you end up doing with your DS??

kmd91 · January 2016

I've heard that the percentage is going way down from say our generation. So it'll be interesting to see.

GoogleMD · January 2016

My pediatrician said when she was first practicing around 10 or 15 years ago she never saw a boy uncircumcised, of her patients 5 years and younger 30% are uncircumcised.

We didn't circumcise our lo

chelseaepley · January 2016

Ours isn't due to a mild deformity right now, but he will have to be if he wants any function of it, but I it were my choice, we wouldn't.

angelinthepit23 · January 2016

Our LO in uncut as I like to say lol. DH is also uncut and never had any issues so if made more sense for his to look like his dad's for future questions if he were to see it.

MercyC1130 · January 2016

My mom was shocked and kind of pushy. Like pp said, the trends are starting to lean back to uncircumcised, versus prior generations.

mrsgabus · January 2016

We had a girl this time but our two boys are circumsized

rachswi · January 2016

LO is circumcised like his daddy.

cdepperschmidt · January 2016

LO is circumcised. My husband is also circumcised. I left it up to him to decide what we would do with DS.

brianna91chavez · January 2016

DS is not circumsized.

elbou · January 2016

DH is; both DS's are not. It's too expensive in our area, especially since it's a non-essential medical procedure in our case.

fitmama89 · January 2016

DH & DS are not!
In my area it's pretty 50/50.

brownloveone · January 2016

My husband is not but our first son is. This baby isn't because I switched ob too late in my pregnancy to do paperwork all over.I also didn't get my tubes tied because of it.

LydianG · January 2016

DS is not. My SO's mom was a real witch about it. I know she loves her grandkid but his penis isnt her business.

bellie1223 · January 2016

my brother-in-law and his wife are expecting a boy in June, he's from here and she's from Italy. Somehow the circumcision conversation came up at Christmas time (seriously, I don't know why anyone else cares, but they were talking about it), and they realized that they have very different opinions about the matter: he assumed they would because it's tradition here, and she assumed they wouldn't because it is not done regularly in Italy...glad we had a girl and didn't have to grapple with that decision

ColoradoHiker · January 2016

DS is circumcised. I'm not sure what the ratio is in Baltimore, but among my close friends, all of their LOs are circumcised.

Escheffler34 · January 2016

Our son is not. I'm sure our families had strong opinions about it but were smart enough to keep their mouths shut.

RobinaCee · January 2016

Hubby is, all 3 of my boys are not.

natalknitter15 · January 2016

My husband is, but we decided not to for our son. My mother-in-law was changing his diaper and asked when we were planning on having the procedure done. When my husband said that we aren't circumcising, she just said very politely, "Oh." No conversation on it since then! I agree that it will be interesting to see how rates of this change in the coming decades.

Cook3133 · January 2016

All 4 of my boys are not and 8 of their boy cousins are also not. Very much the norm in our family, I think out of all the males in my family my brother is the only one who is and only because it was what you did 35 years ago

jsf1986 · January 2016

I'm in Canada and circumcision has become much less common. When I was born in the 80's, pretty much every male was circumcised. My hubby is circumcised but after researching the topic, my hubby was adamant that our son would not be. My mom and mother-in-law were surprised but after we showed them the research they understood our decision. It looks like the Canadian national average is somewhere around 30% of newborn males being circumcised now.

taykerslake · January 2016

I'm in Canada too, and my fiancé wasn't circumcised. When the subject came up while I was pregnant I told him that because I don't have those parts and he does that it was entirely his decision. We chose not to do it for Arlo either.

katrinasmith17 · January 2016

I'm also in Canada, and both my sons are not. Their dad is but we decided not too. It's considered cosmetic here, so you have to pay for it to be done as well.

hlz128 · January 2016

DS is circumcised. DH is and all the males in our family were. To be honest I've never seen(in person) nor had any experience with anyone being uncircumcised. So I just went with DH and got it done.

smnewby · February 2016

Not to sound scandelous or anything but before I met DH I had experience with both and I dont see what the big deal is.

I think it matters more to fathers because they want their sons to resemble them.

We had a little girl so the discussion never came up but I wouldnt have an opinion either way.

vomitrosa · February 2016

We chose to have our LO circumcised, and it was way more traumatic for me as a parent than I thought it would be...I had a lot of guilt afterwards, but he is just fine now. I cant say that I am happy or not it was done, it was my SO's decision.

hlz128 · February 2016

vomitrosa said:

We chose to have our LO circumcised, and it was way more traumatic for me as a parent than I thought it would be...I had a lot of guilt afterwards, but he is just fine now. I cant say that I am happy or not it was done, it was my SO's decision.

I cried when they took DS to have it done. I felt so guilty for it. It healed really quick and it didn't seem to bother him but it still hurt my heart to do it

BrookeBrown2015 · February 2016

My husband I planned on not doing it- there was no doubt in our minds at all. However, our son has kidney problems and had a urinary tract infection right away and was unable to void all his urine because of a valve between his penis and bladder that was closed. He had to have a surgery to cut the valve, which he was put to sleep for. The urologist suggested that the circumcision be done while he was put to sleep for the surgery. We didn't have long to decide and it was a hard decision for me but the urologist was reccomending it and I figured if it was going to be done that while he was put to sleep would definitely be the time to do it... I still feel bad though and wonder if I made the right decision, especially since dh is not... But more than that I hope he ends up being able to potty train at all.

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