Boy moms, you happy with your choice?

[Anonymous]

My son is 4 and is circumcised. I really don’t have any other frame of reference. Nice to not have to worry about extra cleaning.

[Anonymous]

So so happy. No UTI problems even though we were threatened and he is fine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did not circumcise my older son, will not circumcise the son I am pregnant with. It is genital mutilation! I was ten when my baby brother got circumcised and I will never forget his agony as an infant. No thank you.

They let a child watch the procedure? Weird.

This is a religious ceremony. You've never been to a Bris? I think that is weird.

Seeing as how I am not Jewish, do you still think it is weird I've never been to a Bris? My kids were circumcised in the hospital after they were born.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did not circumcise my older son, will not circumcise the son I am pregnant with. It is genital mutilation! I was ten when my baby brother got circumcised and I will never forget his agony as an infant. No thank you.

They let a child watch the procedure? Weird.

After he came home.

And you're positive it was from .... the circumcision? Not just because he was a newborn and newborns cry a lot? Seems like a stretch to me.

[Anonymous]

I didn't make the choice, the birth parents did but they asked my opinion. Yes, I'm glad we did it as I know several kids who had to do it later with issues and it's horribly painful for them. I honestly don't think about it now and my kid doesn't know the difference or care.

[Anonymous]

We did, 3 boys. Don’t regret it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two boys. Did not circumcise. They can decide to get circumcised when they’re older. My mom’s in medicine and says it’s barbaric and the babies cry a lot. She said no adult would sign up to get skin cut off with just a little numbing.

Having been to at least a dozen bris's (sp?) I have seen the range of the babies not cry at all, to cry for under 30 seconds, and everything in between. Maybe the ones your mom has seen weren't done by someone with a lot of experience or something?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did not circumcise my older son, will not circumcise the son I am pregnant with. It is genital mutilation! I was ten when my baby brother got circumcised and I will never forget his agony as an infant. No thank you.

They let a child watch the procedure? Weird.

This is a religious ceremony. You've never been to a Bris? I think that is weird.

Stop that - I'm jewish and lots of people have never even personally knowingly met a jewish person. It's not weird that someone's never been to a bris.

[Anonymous]

We did it. I never think about it.

So no, no regrets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did not circumcise my older son, will not circumcise the son I am pregnant with. It is genital mutilation! I was ten when my baby brother got circumcised and I will never forget his agony as an infant. No thank you.

They let a child watch the procedure? Weird.

This is a religious ceremony. You've never been to a Bris? I think that is weird.

I mean TBH having a party to celebrate the cutting off of a baby's foreskin is really weird too. I mean people holding down a baby and then.... sandwiches! If it wasn't a religious rite people would call it crazy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did not circumcise my older son, will not circumcise the son I am pregnant with. It is genital mutilation! I was ten when my baby brother got circumcised and I will never forget his agony as an infant. No thank you.

They let a child watch the procedure? Weird.

After he came home.

And you're positive it was from .... the circumcision? Not just because he was a newborn and newborns cry a lot? Seems like a stretch to me.

Yeah I know there are very different opinions on it but I think the point that circumcision is unnecessary can be made without spreading misinformation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gonna be honest I regret not doing it. He's really self-conscious about it and I need to constantly remind him about the extra cleaning (though that might just be middle school)

I guarantee there is no need to remind about extra cleaning in middle school. Stop micromanaging your tween’s penis.

He almost had to get it snipped last year because he wasn't keeping it clean, so I can guarantee you that there is.

This makes me glad I did it.

I had a male friend in college who said he always felt self-conscious he was not circumcised and said women always commented on it. But we (Gen X) are of the generation where most men were circumcised. I've never seen one on a live male model.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did not circumcise my older son, will not circumcise the son I am pregnant with. It is genital mutilation! I was ten when my baby brother got circumcised and I will never forget his agony as an infant. No thank you.

They let a child watch the procedure? Weird.

This is a religious ceremony. You've never been to a Bris? I think that is weird.

I mean TBH having a party to celebrate the cutting off of a baby's foreskin is really weird too. I mean people holding down a baby and then.... sandwiches! If it wasn't a religious rite people would call it crazy.

NP: it's not a party to celebrate that. It's a baby naming, which is done for girls too. When it's a boy they also do this. And people hold down newborns for tons of things - clipping nails, changing diapers, vaccines, to measure them, to put clothes on and off, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did not circumcise my older son, will not circumcise the son I am pregnant with. It is genital mutilation! I was ten when my baby brother got circumcised and I will never forget his agony as an infant. No thank you.

They let a child watch the procedure? Weird.

After he came home.

And you're positive it was from .... the circumcision? Not just because he was a newborn and newborns cry a lot? Seems like a stretch to me.

Are you trying to say it is unlikely that this newborn baby was crying from pain? So you’re saying that cutting off a piece of your skin (forget that it’s a particularly sensitive area with insane amounts of nerve endings, let’s just say any skin) would not be painful?

It’s just as painful for babies to get the tip of their genitals chopped off as it is for anyone. They just can’t communicate how painful it is and they don’t remember it later.

I’m not even anti-circumcision really but I hate that we pretend it is not an intensely painful ordeal for a human being to go through.

[Anonymous]

My youngest had a really conservative one, as a baby it looked intact. Now he is 5 and it looks correct.