Questions & Answers

There is no medical value to this procedure and that's why in my home province ( British Columbia) you have to pay for it yourself because it isn't medically necessary.

My husband is not circumcised and he has never had a problem with personal hygiene...its not hard to care for or clean as long as there are no other underlying medical issues.

Good luck with your choice, it's a hard one!

I agree with marchewka. I used to be a CNA, till recently due to my RA, in a nursing home and dealing with the uncircumcised males was a pain.If proper care wasn't done they would develop nasty pus or white gunk underneath the foreskin and also you would get males that you couldn't pull the foreskin back to clean which could and sometimes did result in infection.
I personally had my son circumcised, in the long run I think it's healthier and easier on them when they grow older.
Here's a site that has a the pro's and con's of circumcising- http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/surgical/circumcision.html#

hope that helps

I don't know what i'm having but I have a 6 year old son. I am a CNA and take care of people for a living. As a medical perspective I would suggest it is a MUST DO to circumsize. It is VERY hard to keep the weenie clean under the forskin, you always have stuff that can"t be cleaned. So bacteria can grow in there very often, so medically that's the reason to do it. And as for looks, it looks horrible.

I'm with Erica. We are opting to have our son circumcised.

I believe this is a totally personal decision between husband and wife. There is no right or wrong answer. Some feel strongly about it, others don't. I have a 10 yr old son and he was circumcised, i am 21 weeks with another boy and he will be circumcised too. If you ask my 10 year old he will tell you he has no memory of it(duh). I held him 2 minutes after it was done and he was already calm and fine. He cried the moment it was done and no more after. The only treatment i had to do was when i changed his diaper, i put a tiny amount of vaseline on his penis and only needed to do that for a few days after. He has told me recently as we have been talking about getting it done with our new son that he's glad his is "just like daddies." I have never regretted our decision and won't with this little guy either. Its a simple and fast procedure and the pain is quickly gone(which is what most parents worry about). Don't let anyone tell you you made the wrong decision either!

Both of my boys are circumsized, I guess it is mostly a cultural thing where we are from. I know that there are issues with cleanliness and infections, but I think what mostly led me to get it done was that it is just the norm here in our society and to people here it's strange if you boys aren't circumsized. It really isn't that bad at all of course for a mother you don't want your baby to have any pain at all, but it heals really quickly and is easy to take care of afterwards. I'm positive that my boys will be glad that we made the decision when they are older!

The skin was put there for a reason and I believe it shoudlnt be chopped off, to horrible to put a baby through that, leave it, if one day he decides he wants it off, he will be an adult and can make his own desicion and I think you will feel much better knowing you left it up to him!

my husband wasn't and wished he was, because it's an operation you really don't want to do later in life as it will completely change how you feel, physically. He had a few issues when he was young with infections. His mother decided to circumcise her next son as a result.

My little boy is not circumcised because my DH isn't so he was very admant on that subject. If it was up to me I would've circumcised just becuase I think it would be easier to clean. However, I haven't found an issue with DS not being circumcised. There was only one situation where I wished he was, he was diagnosed with urine reflux which is common in little boys and corrects itself by 1 yr of age. It had nothing to do with being circumcised or not. At that time he had to have a catheter put in a few times and since we were not pulling the skin back (he was only 6 months at the time) it was gut wrenching seeing his little head try to push through the tight foreskin. I cried a lot and couldn't even be in the room when they did it cuz it looked so awful. Now that he is two we have no issues. Hope this helps ;)