my wife needs a reason to have our soon too be baby boy circumcized, is becuase i am good enough reason?

Question

like father like son?

Answer 1

If it is not for religious / spiritual reasons, I don't think it's worth putting your son through the pain. Besides, you're not going to go to parties and show off how your penis is just like your son's.

Answer 2

Circumcision is not as widely done as it use to be. Alot of the myths that use to be associated with the reason to get it done have been disproven and in some hospitals such as the Choctaw Nation Hospital and certain Catholic hospital won't do them any more. Most insurances won't pay for them anymore either because they are considered medically unnessasary.
Back to your question, no, I don't believe just because you are circumcized is a good reason for your son to be. All three of my sons were circumsized, but If I knew then, what I know now, I would never have had it done.

Answer 3

I always tell my fiancee if we have a boy were never getting him circumcized but then he set me down and he explained the following....1) it's easier to clean when there a baby (you dont have to pull the skin back and stuff) 2) itll be easier for him to learn how to pee if him and daddy look the same ( haha my favorite!) and 3) when hes older and he gets involved with a girl at school if they find out he has an "anteater" penis then itll get all around school and everyone will make fun of him and no one wants there kid to be made fun of so that pretty much was the deal breaker cause his other excuse was you do want our son to get head from girls dont you? and that to me was another no so just go with the first 3 options!! lol goodluck!

Answer 4

I don't really think there is a good reason, unless there actually is a medical reason for the individual child.
Circing pretty much every boy born is a weird american thing, I don't see the point in putting them through that pain (whether they remember it or not doesn't matter, its still pain at the time) just so they can look "pretty"

Its not healthier like some people say, if you just wash your baby properly and teach him how to wash himself properly when hes older he won't get an infection.

Answer 5

My husband and I went around on this too. My husband was against cutting our son for no good reason. I wanted the job done because I was afraid of him being different.
Four years later and sometimes I still wonder if we did the right thing, but I have found that there are lots of people out there who are deciding against the cut. It is pretty common these days.
Just to let you know, my son has had zero problems due to our decision.

Answer 6

I DONT WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO..BUT CIRCUMCIZING IS THE THING TO DO. BUT ITS BETTER CAUSE IF U ARE NOT CIRCUMCIZED IT CAN LEAVE ALOT OF ODOR. I GOT A BOY AND HE IS CIRCUMCIZED. HE WILL BE FINE. DO IT RIGHT WHEN HE IS BORN HE WONT EVEN REM. BELIEVE ME ITS THE BEST THING TO DO. MY SONS DAD IS NOT CIRCUMCIZED AND SOMETIMES IT BAD ODOR...I SAY DO IT THE DOCTOR KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING..THEY NUMB IT...BELIEVE ME HE WONT REM. GOOD LUCK AND MAKE THE DECISION YOU WANT...CONGRATS ON THE BABY BOY..I WANT A GIRL THIS TIME... MOTHER OF 1 BOY HE IS 2 AND 2 MONTHS PREGNANT

Answer 7

Best reason it is more hygienic. She won't have to wash the area as much and if she does it now when baby is only a day old, it will heal quickly and he won't remember it happening. My favorite joke is about a boy that was about 7 yrs old saying to his friend that he is going to be circumcised, and the other boy says, oh I had that done when I was a baby, but it was pretty bad it took me a year to walk afterwards.

Answer 8

Well i have read an article that said its ok with or without the skin. But they do say that it would be good to look like the father, so that the child doesn't feel in anyway about being different down there. But as long as he is taught good hygiene about keeping underneath the skin clean I say keep him the way he is.

Answer 9

The uncircumcised penis requires NO special care. You DO NOT need to pull back the skin on a baby's penis to clean it. As a matter of fact, you should NEVER do so because you will HURT the child. It's still firmly attached and isn't free to be retracted until they are closer to school age.

From the AAP link on care below:

Foreskin Hygiene: The foreskin is easy to care for. The infant should be bathed or sponged frequently, and all parts should be washed including the genitals. The uncircumcised penis is easy to keep clean. No special care is required! No attempt should be made to forcibly retract the foreskin. No manipulation is necessary. There is no need for special cleansing with Q-tips, irrigation, or antiseptics; soap and water externally will suffice.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends AGAINST routine infant circumcision. From their policy statement, linked below:

Existing scientific evidence demonstrates potential medical benefits of newborn male circumcision; however, these data are NOT SUFFICIENT to recommend routine neonatal circumcision. In circumstances in which there are potential benefits and risks, yet the procedure is NOT ESSENTIAL to the child's current well-being, parents should determine what is in the best interest of the child. To make an INFORMED CHOICE, parents of all male infants should be given accurate and unbiased information and be provided the opportunity to discuss this decision. If a decision for circumcision is made, procedural analgesia should be provided.

Most kids are smart enough to know that different people look different. Kids don't have pubic hair, but their parents do. They know they look different. They know people have different colors of skin, eyes or hair. They will NOT be confused by the fact that their genitals look different. As a matter of fact, my hubby is circ'd and our 7.5 yo son was left intact. As far as I know, he has never asked his dad why they look different. It's just normal to him!

The kids I have heard of who did ask their dads said, "WOW! Thanks for not letting them do that to me dad!" when they found out why they looked different than their fathers.

The majority of the rest of the world DOES NOT perform routine cosmetic surgery on their infants. Would you do this to a baby girl? Of course not! So why should you do it to a baby boy!? This is an American custom that started to try to keep people from masterbating!

God/Nature/Diety of your choice made your baby perfect as he was. Please don't put him through the pain of a ritual with no strong medical reason.

Answer 10

Not really. Why does your sons penis have to look like yours?

People who think a circumcised penis is cleaner are ignorant and need to read a book.

Here are some facts you should consider:

1. The foreskin contains over 240 feet of nerves and over 1,000 nerve endings, as well as being a highly vascularized structure.

2. The foreskin serves to protect the glans, thereby maintaining the glans-surface’s naturally-intended thinness, texture, and sensitivity.

3. The fact that the foreskin in infancy is usually non-retractile serves to protect the baby’s glans penis from urine and feces during the period that he is incontinent.

4. Infant circumcision interrupts natural penile development.

5. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) states: “The uncircumcised penis is easy to keep clean. No special care is required. No attempt should be made to forcefully retract the foreskin.

6. Infant circumcision excises (removes) normal, healthy, healthful, functioning erogenous tissue that belongs to someone else (i.e., to someone other than the one making the circumcision decision, and other than the one who will be affected by the decision), and leaves a scar.

7. No anesthetic has been found to be safe and totally effective in preventing circumcision pain in infants. [A man circumcised in adulthood will be given the benefit of general anaesthetic, post-operative pain management, choice and informed consent over the fate of his own genital integrity.]

8. An estimated minimum of 1.3 to 6.6 million males born in the U.S. between 1940 and 1990 carry some degree of physical complication from infant circumcision. Unknown numbers carry some form of sexual or psychological complication.

And much, much, much more....

Why don't you just leave HIS penis alone and let HIm decide for himself when HE is an adult??

Answer 11

actually i was going to circumize my son because his dad is and i dont know if you knew but if you get it done, the male will lose 30% of there feelings during sex as well as if you have ever heard it being done, it isnt fun they scream bloody murder while they pin your baby down to a table. my mother in law almost had a nervous breakdown hearing her 2nd oldest son go through that.THERE IS NO REASON TO HAVE IT DONE UNLESS THERE IS AN INFECTION