circumsision?

Question

my baby boy is due in about 4 weeks and im trying to decide if i want him circumsized my doctor said they do it with a ring that they put on and the skin falls off but i still need more information on it please only serious answers thank you

Answer 1

Oooooh! How could you? This is serious, Why?
If washed regularly and properly it is not unhygienic at all. There must be a reason for it to be there otherwise mother nature would have disposed of it herself.
Could your son not decide for himself when he is older?
PS 'Looking wierd' is not a reason to chop bits off your son!

Answer 2

http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Circumsision

Its a personal choice. I did some research on it a while ago and came across a site that talked about how the likelihood that it goes wrong and has problems is low, however that is by a medical standpoint. They look at how it functions afterwords. It later talked about how large the percent would actually be if they included other problems associated with it, such as hair growing out of the shaft due to not leaving enough skin behind so they pull it up to close the incision; so when puberty hits hair starts grow in where it shouldn't which can cause issues in sex later on. The fact that the majority of circumcisions are botched is some way or another(including and not including what the medical field feels as botched) was not too comforting to me. There are a lot of people who want their son's to look like them and I can understand that. Just do the research the site above has other links within it. Good luck with your hard decision.

Answer 3

Well, this is HIS penis, and HE is the one who should decide (even if it means more pain when the procedure is done in adulthood).
I actually know men who are circumcised, and they wish they weren’t. If you have him circumcised, he won’t be able to reverse it ever. Before you do anything, check the following links:
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/fleiss.html
http://www.noharmm.org/separated.htm

Amanda, you had your baby boy circumcised because "it is easier to clean him there"? How selfish...

To all: circumcision and personal hygiene are two different things.

Why some of you say that "it will look weird"? Every normal human being is born with a foreskin. Meanwhile, most American medical textbooks depict the human penis, without explanation, as circumcised, as if it were so by nature.
70% of men in the US are circumcised. 85% of the worlds male population is intact.
The US is the only Country that routinely circumcises their infant males.

Also, I don't think that circumcising a baby boy just "because this way he will look like his daddy" is a good enough reason.

By the way, 209 baby boys die each year from circumcision and related complications

Answer 4

i had my son circumsized at birth and they botched him. he still has like half his foreskin, it still doesn't pull back all the way, and he has scar tissue on the underside of his leftover foreskin. he looks like he is uncircumsized except for the scar tissue and the fact that his forskin can be pulled back. the doctors refuse to admit there is anything wrong and i refuse to let him have corrective surgery on it. if i had known this was going to happen despite my adverse feelings about uncircumsized penises i may not of had him circumsized. if i have another son i will think long and hard about having him circumsized. if my son gets older and his penis bother him and he would like to have corrective surgery i will support him 100%. but i will not put him through it at the age of 11 months so they can mess it up again. it's a bit upsetting but there are alot worse things that can happen during circumcision... so i feel lucky it was only this, and the doctors claim he will grow into it. i hope they are right. good luck with the baby!

Answer 5

I strongly believe that there is no reason to cut off a part of a babys genitals. It is not healthier, cleaner, better sexually, etc. than an uncircumcized penis. Some boys, circumcized or not, will get urinary tract infections. So do little girls but we don't go around cutting off their labia. I feel that by son was bornfine just the way he is and there is no reason to alter that with a serious medical procedure that could go terribly wrong.

People who choose to mutilate their baby boys just because their fathers are... well it's just plain silly! Who cares if your son and husband have similar penises? What a perfect opportunity to talk with your child about people being unique and different. I mean, if your son was born with a big nose and your husband has a small one, would you rush him off for rhinoplasty? Ir dye his red hair brown so he could look like dad? Just silly,

And in the US 50 percent of all boy babies are uncircumcized. This means that the arguement that "Most people are..." doesn't hold. By the time these babies grow up and notice each others' penises there will be a good chance that others are like them, uncircumcized. Also, as my husband points out, nobody will tease the kid because really who wants to admit that they are looking at another guys' penis? If anything the lookee will get harassed, not the uncircumcized kid. Oh, and for what it's worth, foreskin actually enhances the sexual experience for men because it constantly moves over the head of the penis causing more friction and pleasure.

I urge you to do more research and check out some of the links below. If you are having a hard time convincing your partner/husband not to circ, just have him read a few of these articles. You can even watch a video online of a circumcision being done... that will change his mind.

Bottom line- just because "everyone else is" isn't a good reason to follow suit. And in this case, more people are not curcumcizing these days because it is completely unnecissary.

Answer 6

I had my son (now almost 6) circumcised right after he was born. My husband and I thought a long time about what was the best thing to do. At the time, about half of the people I knew opted not to do it, so probably when your son gets older he'll have a lot of other boys just like him whatever you decide to do.

My father-in-law is a urologist, so we asked his opinion. The cleanliness issue is not a big deal. Either way, you have to teach your son to keep himself clean. My father-in-law did tell us that there is a rare form of penile cancer that is much more prevalent in men who are not circumcised and because of that he recommended doing it.

Answer 7

I myself have 2 boys age 3 months and 2 years. My husband was not cut but wished he had been so we had both of our boys done. My first baby did not bleed or cry. My second however bleed forever and screamed. I felt awful for putting him through that but it is a life long decision. If you do it make it for medical resons like less chances of infection, and STD's. If you choose not to right now remember that if he is required later in life it will be Very tramatic.

Answer 8

My little boy is 4 months old and I cried when he got circumsized. But it definetly harmed me more than him! Once I fed him he stopped crying and never fussed about it again. Now he is teething and that bothers him more. Is your husband circumsized? It is cleaner and he won't be embarresed in the locker room (that he will remember. ) I know it is awful to make a desicion for your child based on society but lets face it men like their "little men ' and do not want to be made fun of for it. Plus they have enough hurdles acne bad hair glasses etc. Do what you think is right

Answer 9

people are both circumsised out of non secular believes (Jewish men are circumsised) or for different causes alongside with father and mom ideas or man or woman ideas. the purely huge difference between both are that it truly is purifier than uncircumsized and esthetically more beneficial alluring to maximum females.

Answer 10

Mine had it done. They give them numbing stuff so they do not feel it. The only reason mine cried was because the room was cold and stuff. But its relatively easy to take care of and only has to be done for a week or two. Just take some neosporn they will give you and make sure his thing is really clean before putting it on. Good luck.

Answer 11

Neither of my boys are circumcised. I have nothing against circumcision, in fact most of the males in my family are and I would have probably would have had my first son circumcised if I had had the money (my insurance wouldn't pay for it). I didn't have my second son circumcised because I didn't want my boys to feel like they were different down there. If you do not have him circumcised you have to make sure that you keep it clean by pulling the skin back when you bathe him. Other than that, it isn't a big deal, which ever you prefer.