Why do you care what I decide to do to my son's penis when he is born?

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Anonymous wrote:What are you? Some kind of pervert? Mind your own business.

Agreed. I just gave my 6 month-old a neck-tattoo of a snake. it's my baby; I can do what I want with it.

If that's really what you think, you should not be a parent. Your baby is not your property.

I'm not sure someone with your impaired sense of irony is qualified to be a parent, either.

I accounted for the possibility that this was a joke by saying "if this is really what you think" - seriously, this attitude has been voiced here many times, so even if the tattoo seemed made up, the rest might very well have been serious.

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OMG let this thread die already.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish I'd had my tonsils out at a younger age - they caused me complete pain and misery for most of my childhood until I had them removed at age 25 when I finally had health coverage after college. It was miserable surgery as an adult, I would have much preferred it as a child.

And it's common for this to be an issue.

So there's that. I guess my parents are bad parents for having me have my wisdom teeth removed as well.

Well, I've never had a problem with my tonsils and I'm very glad my parents didn't remove them. And I had the two wisdom teeth that were problematic removed, have the other two and they've never given me any problems. Even the trend of removing healthy wisdom teeth is changing! And, the child is older when that happens and can participate in the decision.

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Anonymous wrote:What are you? Some kind of pervert? Mind your own business.

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Anonymous wrote:What are you? Some kind of pervert? Mind your own business.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish I'd had my tonsils out at a younger age - they caused me complete pain and misery for most of my childhood until I had them removed at age 25 when I finally had health coverage after college. It was miserable surgery as an adult, I would have much preferred it as a child.

And it's common for this to be an issue.

So there's that. I guess my parents are bad parents for having me have my wisdom teeth removed as well.

Well, I've never had a problem with my tonsils and I'm very glad my parents didn't remove them. And I had the two wisdom teeth that were problematic removed, have the other two and they've never given me any problems. Even the trend of removing healthy wisdom teeth is changing! And, the child is older when that happens and can participate in the decision.

Same here. Still have my tonsils, and my wisdom teeth were taken out 20 years ago because the x-ray showed that they were growing in the wrong direction and would have ruined the alignment of my teeth. No way would I have wanted to have tonsils and wt removed prophylactically. Who does that? I don't believe either is recommended.

Of course it's always easy to say you wish something had been removed when it does turn out to cause you trouble. My mom had a critical situation with her appendix a few years ago, which could have been life-threatening - yet nobody suggests getting appendices removed on everybody. Hey, it's just a quick laparoscopy!

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The medical benefits far exceed the miniscule risk

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Anonymous wrote:The medical benefits far exceed the miniscule risk

Now THAT is an insightful contribution after all those pages of in-depth discussion!

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Have any of the anti-circ moms ever watched a circ?

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Anonymous wrote:Have any of the anti-circ moms ever watched a circ?

You do not understand the issues involved if you think this would make a difference.

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Anonymous wrote:Have any of the anti-circ moms ever watched a circ?

You do not understand the issues involved if you think this would make a difference.

Well, if it is so harmful, dangerous and awful, you would think the actual procedure would be horrible. Yet, it isn't. Hmmmm.

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OP, I do not care AND no one else has a right to dictate what you do. Sure, they can spout their opinions (DCUMers are great at that), but they have no say and they will not be inspecting your baby's part to see if you did what they deem as right. I do not believe in not circumcising, BUT I would not ever tell anyone else what they should do. Do what you want.

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Anonymous wrote:The medical benefits far exceed the miniscule risk

Yes, in subsaharan Africa. Or the slums of Mumbai.

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Anonymous wrote:Have any of the anti-circ moms ever watched a circ?

You do not understand the issues involved if you think this would make a difference.

Well, if it is so harmful, dangerous and awful, you would think the actual procedure would be horrible. Yet, it isn't. Hmmmm.

Are you kidding me? It was watching a circ that swayed my husband AGAINST doing it. It is awful looking!

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Anonymous wrote:We decided to have our son circumcised after talking with friends who's family members son had it done at age 12 because on constant infection. We were on the fence and that was just what tipped us over it. Son was a few days old and I have no regrets.

I think its fine either way...people in more urban areas are starting to do it less and less, where I think people in rural areas would be horrified at a non-circed penis.

Your friends' son didn't clean himself properly. Millions of uncircumcised boys and men in Europe don't have "constant infections".

I wonder why that is, though. When we were considering what to do, we also heard several stories of boys having it done in the tween years because of infection. As a pp said, boys are not the cleanest creatures.

We circed our child and I'm gladder than ever now because he turned out to have some special needs and has very weak fine motor skills. He's approaching his teens and only recently learned to take a shower on his own and deal with washing his hair and body. With so many families dealing with autism and Asperger's, it's one less thing to worry about.

Sigh. This doesn't happen in Europe. EVER. So either boys in the US are incapable of washing themselves whereas elsewhere they manage to master it, or it is being treated differently here. That is that doctors are quick to jump to surgical options. I grew up in Europe and had two brothers. I NEVER heard of anyone having an infection EVER. I certainly never heard of anyone having a tween circumcision. I did have a relative have a medical circumcision at around 7 or 8, I think. This was necessary because of a tight foreskin (an unusual condition that is a medical reason for a circumcision), not because of infections.