TTMA Cicrumcision

[toadandbuggie]

One piece of advice for those considering circumcision: make sure your OB or whoever is performing the procedure has a lot of experience or consider seeing a pediatric urologist. The OB I had with my son did a really bad job and we had to take him to see a pediatric urologist to get it fixed. Just something to think about.

[megeliz1]

I watched one performed when I was in nursing school, pre kids. It's pretty traumatic.

[Madso]

Jan 15, 2017 14:20:33 GMT -5 toadandbuggie said:

Jan 15, 2017 1:20:47 GMT -5 Madso said:

I have a lot of research to do on this topic. However, I think DH will have a heavier input because he knows more about having a penis than I do. He wasn't circumcised as a baby but had to have it done as a child.

Out of curiosity, why did he have to get it done as a child? Feel free to ignore if too personal.

A pretty bad infection, he doesn't know why and never asked questions about it. I'm assuming maybe a hygiene issue but I'm not sure.

[coconuthead]

I want to throw something out there for those not getting their DS's circed. Some medical people I have dealt with that have seen my son did not know or had bad information about care of intact boys. So find a pedi who is familiar with intact boys. Long story short my pedi was fine but I had to take him to the hospital for some testing when he was an infant and the nurses fully retracted his foreskin which should not be done on an infant and it was extremely painful for him and could have caused an infection.

[babywisher]

We had both boys circumcised. We adopted ds1 and they wouldn't do it at the hospital when he was born for whatever reason. He was a little over a month old when it was done. It was nbd. Quick and easy recovery. We had ds2 done in the hospital. Then a lot of the skin grew back after a couple of months. We had to get it re done at 6 months. That was more traumatic on us than him because he had to be put to sleep. Again very quick and easy recovery.
I let dh make the decision for the most part. I mostly didn't want them to be different from the other boys and feel uncomfortable.
Also, my grandfather had to get his done as an adult as well.

[khopec]

I do not want to scare anyone so I am hesitant to even post this here...DS is circumcised. He was 2 weeks old and it was done at his pediatrician's office. They took him away to another room brought him back upset but with procedure complete. Fast forward to 4 hours later when I accidentally knocked the blood clot off changing a diaper and after that we could not get the bleeding to stop. We ended up in the ER and it took them 3 hours to get it to stop bleeding...hands down scariest most traumatic night of my life. Kind of hoping for girl just so I don't have to make the decision again because with all the rest of the boys in the house circumcised I feel bad having him feel "different" but man the anxiety of doing it again...UGH!

[hham10]

My sons circ was quick and when he came back he acted fine and never seemed to bother him. I know in or area they have started taking off less skin which also helps. We kept Vaseline on at all times and it healed quickly. I won't hesitate if I have another boy to have him circumcised. Whatever decision you make will be the right one.

[juliayadda]

I was there for my sons at the one doctor in town that did them. She did them on Thursdays so she was pretty experienced. It took start to finish 30 mins and he was well numbed in the area so there wasn't pain during. I did cry but in the end I wasn't traumatized.

I had researched and found that both sides had good arguments so I let my husband at the time make the decision. Due to him having a penis.

This time I have a new husband and I wouldn't care if we didn't do it. I am not concerned about it looking different than my older sons because well his will look different no matter what being ten years older.

[amyface813]

Jan 14, 2017 16:29:54 GMT -5 morwen said:

We didn't, didn't consider any of the reasons for compelling enough to go ahead and do it so we didn't.

WSS except our insurance wouldn't have covered it so we ended up having financial reasons to not do it.

It's pretty evenly split with boys being born now so there isn't the "locker room" factor anymore, we don't have to worry about them feeling different or self conscious about it. Shrug. Do what ever you want.