Worried about son's circumcision

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, its all over with, finally. He absolutely hated it crying and screaming the whole time he was being circumcised, I heard him when I was in the waiting room. It took about 10 minutes, he was still crying when the nurse carried him out of the circumcision room and gave him back to me. I was in tears myself, but the nurse smiled and reassured me that he did fine and he just didn't like being strapped down. She said he missed his mommy too and that I should feed him as soon as possible. I never really heard the care advice she told me due to my son's crying and me being so emotional at the time. I changed one diaper on him so far and he screamed I feels so bad, I hope it's just the first day and he'll be fine afterwards.

My friend who has two sons and saw the first being circumcised didn't circumcise the second one. She couldn't inflict that pain on a baby again.

[Anonymous]

But the brothers won't match! The horror.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, its all over with, finally. He absolutely hated it crying and screaming the whole time he was being circumcised, I heard him when I was in the waiting room. It took about 10 minutes, he was still crying when the nurse carried him out of the circumcision room and gave him back to me. I was in tears myself, but the nurse smiled and reassured me that he did fine and he just didn't like being strapped down. She said he missed his mommy too and that I should feed him as soon as possible. I never really heard the care advice she told me due to my son's crying and me being so emotional at the time. I changed one diaper on him so far and he screamed I feels so bad, I hope it's just the first day and he'll be fine afterwards.

What a messed up thing to do to your own child. You don't seriously believe the nurse who told you he was fine or do you? He didn't scream because he was strapped down. He screamed because someone cut off a part of his penis. With the penis being the most sensitive part of his body. He is in sever pain now. You have intentionally let someone harm your baby for nothing else than a cosmetic procedure. I am glad I grew up in Europe where people are more educated about circumcision. Nobody here gets it done unless it is medically necessary. And most certainly not without anesthesia and proper pain management.

Sure all the pro-circ parents will tell you it's fine. And it's easy to believe that since it's such a common thing to get done. But would you cut off a teenage boy's foreskin like that? Or an adult man's? Strapped down, no anesthesia, no pain management? Yet somehow people still believe it's fine to do to a completely helpless baby who doesn't even have the ability to comprehend what's being done to them. Disgusting nothing else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, its all over with, finally. He absolutely hated it crying and screaming the whole time he was being circumcised, I heard him when I was in the waiting room. It took about 10 minutes, he was still crying when the nurse carried him out of the circumcision room and gave him back to me. I was in tears myself, but the nurse smiled and reassured me that he did fine and he just didn't like being strapped down. She said he missed his mommy too and that I should feed him as soon as possible. I never really heard the care advice she told me due to my son's crying and me being so emotional at the time. I changed one diaper on him so far and he screamed I feels so bad, I hope it's just the first day and he'll be fine afterwards.

What a messed up thing to do to your own child. You don't seriously believe the nurse who told you he was fine or do you? He didn't scream because he was strapped down. He screamed because someone cut off a part of his penis. With the penis being the most sensitive part of his body. He is in sever pain now. You have intentionally let someone harm your baby for nothing else than a cosmetic procedure. I am glad I grew up in Europe where people are more educated about circumcision. Nobody here gets it done unless it is medically necessary. And most certainly not without anesthesia and proper pain management.

Sure all the pro-circ parents will tell you it's fine. And it's easy to believe that since it's such a common thing to get done. But would you cut off a teenage boy's foreskin like that? Or an adult man's? Strapped down, no anesthesia, no pain management? Yet somehow people still believe it's fine to do to a completely helpless baby who doesn't even have the ability to comprehend what's being done to them. Disgusting nothing else.

Nobody cares what you think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For care, give him Tylenol, gently retract with each diaper change, and swab with a generous about of neosporin. (Wash your hands first!).

Thank you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, its all over with, finally. He absolutely hated it crying and screaming the whole time he was being circumcised, I heard him when I was in the waiting room. It took about 10 minutes, he was still crying when the nurse carried him out of the circumcision room and gave him back to me. I was in tears myself, but the nurse smiled and reassured me that he did fine and he just didn't like being strapped down. She said he missed his mommy too and that I should feed him as soon as possible. I never really heard the care advice she told me due to my son's crying and me being so emotional at the time. I changed one diaper on him so far and he screamed I feels so bad, I hope it's just the first day and he'll be fine afterwards.

What a messed up thing to do to your own child. You don't seriously believe the nurse who told you he was fine or do you? He didn't scream because he was strapped down. He screamed because someone cut off a part of his penis. With the penis being the most sensitive part of his body. He is in sever pain now. You have intentionally let someone harm your baby for nothing else than a cosmetic procedure. I am glad I grew up in Europe where people are more educated about circumcision. Nobody here gets it done unless it is medically necessary. And most certainly not without anesthesia and proper pain management.

Sure all the pro-circ parents will tell you it's fine. And it's easy to believe that since it's such a common thing to get done. But would you cut off a teenage boy's foreskin like that? Or an adult man's? Strapped down, no anesthesia, no pain management? Yet somehow people still believe it's fine to do to a completely helpless baby who doesn't even have the ability to comprehend what's being done to them. Disgusting nothing else.

Nobody cares what you think.

You sure don't because I don't share your opinion. I can assure you the countless posters in this thread speaking up against circumcision care very much. But then they also care about their babies enough not to cut of a piece of their penises. You didn't care about that either so it's no surprise you don't care about me calling it what it is.

[Anonymous]

"he just didn't like being strapped down. She said he missed his mommy too"

Yeah, right. Those two things are all he was crying about...

[Anonymous]

I think OP is a pro-circ troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, its all over with, finally. He absolutely hated it crying and screaming the whole time he was being circumcised, I heard him when I was in the waiting room. It took about 10 minutes, he was still crying when the nurse carried him out of the circumcision room and gave him back to me. I was in tears myself, but the nurse smiled and reassured me that he did fine and he just didn't like being strapped down. She said he missed his mommy too and that I should feed him as soon as possible. I never really heard the care advice she told me due to my son's crying and me being so emotional at the time. I changed one diaper on him so far and he screamed I feels so bad, I hope it's just the first day and he'll be fine afterwards.

What a messed up thing to do to your own child. You don't seriously believe the nurse who told you he was fine or do you? He didn't scream because he was strapped down. He screamed because someone cut off a part of his penis. With the penis being the most sensitive part of his body. He is in sever pain now. You have intentionally let someone harm your baby for nothing else than a cosmetic procedure. I am glad I grew up in Europe where people are more educated about circumcision. Nobody here gets it done unless it is medically necessary. And most certainly not without anesthesia and proper pain management.

Sure all the pro-circ parents will tell you it's fine. And it's easy to believe that since it's such a common thing to get done. But would you cut off a teenage boy's foreskin like that? Or an adult man's? Strapped down, no anesthesia, no pain management? Yet somehow people still believe it's fine to do to a completely helpless baby who doesn't even have the ability to comprehend what's being done to them. Disgusting nothing else.

Nobody cares what you think.

You sure don't because I don't share your opinion. I can assure you the countless posters in this thread speaking up against circumcision care very much. But then they also care about their babies enough not to cut of a piece of their penises. You didn't care about that either so it's no surprise you don't care about me calling it what it is.

I have girls. I just want to make sure an awful person like you gets called out. You should be ashamed of yourself, talking to OP like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP is a anti-circ troll.

oops

fixed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think OP is a anti-circ troll.

oops

fixed

Yeah, this.

What happened to parents making their own decisions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course it will hurt. It is not true that babies "sleep through it" any more than you or anyone else you know at any age would "sleep through it" when someone takes a knife to your genitals. Actually, not just a knife, but a probe and a clamp as well.

So the foreskin is not a separate part of the penis. It is part of the penis. It is bonded to the head of the penis (the glans) at birth and for a number of years thereafter by a tissue (synechial tissue) that is just like the tissue that bonds your fingernail to the nail bed. Before the circumcision can happen, the doctor has to insert a probe through the meatus (the opening) and break that tissue bond. That is exactly like someone inserting a probe under your fingernail and separating your fingernail from the nail bed.

Then the foreskin is clamped and cut off. So that is skin being sliced off from the body.

Here is a description of the Gomco clamp procedure, with drawings, from the American Academy of Family Physicians:

http://www.aafp.org/afp/1998/0915/p891.html

So yeah it hurts, a LOT, and it hurts a brand-new baby in ways that he may not be able to remember but that doesn't make it OK in my book. Any more than it would be OK to do any surgery on any baby without pain relief. (It used to be that babies didn't get pain relief for surgeries because anesthesia wasn't safe, but it's 100% false that babies "can't feel pain.")

If you're going to do this to your child, you owe it to him to give him absolutely the best pain relief possible.

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I didn't Circ. but, I'm so sorry I clicked on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's creepy that you all care so much about my son's penis.

People often care when innocents are subjected to pain and suffering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's creepy that you all care so much about my son's penis.

People often care when innocents are subjected to pain and suffering.

It's creepy. So focused on genitals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's creepy that you all care so much about my son's penis.

People often care when innocents are subjected to pain and suffering.

It's creepy. So focused on genitals.

So this is a 'creepy' organization? http://www.endfgm.eu/en/