Boy moms, you happy with your choice?

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Happy we circumcized. I've always, always been happy that my DH is circed too.

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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.

You clearly don't get what it is. It is not cutting off the tip of their genital. It is cutting off extra skin that isn't necessary.

Sort of like your labia? Who needs 'em!

This is so outrageously false and stupid comparison.

It’s actually an extremely apt comparison. Inner labia are just extra skin.

Yes, please PP, explain how it is an outrageously false comparison. Maybe a better comparison would be removing the clitoral hood in newborn girls?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy we circumcized. I've always, always been happy that my DH is circed too.

Same here - zero regrets (our boys, or should I say men? young men?) are in their 20s. Spouse late 50s

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We have two boys, both circ’d and happy it was done when they were infants. My DH said he knows no one IRL who regrets their circ, but some who had to get them later.

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Anonymous wrote:I let my husband make the choice since he's more familiar with the equipment. Totally good with the choice.

Same.

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Boy is 17, uncircumcised, happy with decision. It’s a non-issue.

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

Correct?

Oh my.

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Well we're European, and we think circumcision is mutilation, and what's more, done at an age where consent cannot be given.

No regrets.

+1. I’m not European but I agree .

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We didn’t (left it up to his uncircumcised father)…kid is 7 and fine.

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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.

+1000. It’s barbaric and disgusting

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The sanctimony on here is so...predictable and tiresome. Everbody mind your business.

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Anonymous wrote:Two boys. Did not circumcise. They can decide to get circumcised when they’re older. [b]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[/b].

My ob-gyn would not do it for ethical reasons. She said if we wanted it, she would need to refer us elsewhere.

Babies are numbed beforehand. They cry for a few seconds max and then fall back asleep. I was there for the entire procedure. It's worse to get circ'd as an adult.

+1

all 3 of my boys were brought back to me within a couple minutes and not crying at all or looking like they had been crying a lot

I saw them done when I was on my pediatrics rotation in med school. They gave the babies sugar water to suck on while they did it. Most of the babies didn’t cry at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Two boys. Did not circumcise. They can decide to get circumcised when they’re older. [b]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[/b].

My ob-gyn would not do it for ethical reasons. She said if we wanted it, she would need to refer us elsewhere.

Babies are numbed beforehand. They cry for a few seconds max and then fall back asleep. I was there for the entire procedure. It's worse to get circ'd as an adult.

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all 3 of my boys were brought back to me within a couple minutes and not crying at all or looking like they had been crying a lot

I saw them done when I was on my pediatrics rotation in med school. They gave the babies sugar water to suck on while they did it. Most of the babies didn’t cry at all.

I've attended many Brit Milahs (bris ceremony) and none of the babies cry much if any. I've also literally never heard of anyone having an issue either immediate or long term from the procedure.

[Anonymous]

I let dh decide. He is circ’d and so is our son. I’m okay with it so far. Honestly, if extra care and attention would be required as a non-circ’d person, I’m not sure ds would be good at it. Getting him to properly wash his hair is a challenge.

Maybe it was a mistake, maybe it wasn’t. I can’t be a perfect parent and I can’t see the future. So far, so good.

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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.

You clearly don't get what it is. It is not cutting off the tip of their genital. It is cutting off extra skin that isn't necessary.

Sort of like your labia? Who needs 'em!

This is so outrageously false and stupid comparison.

It’s actually an extremely apt comparison. Inner labia are just extra skin.

Yes, please PP, explain how it is an outrageously false comparison. Maybe a better comparison would be removing the clitoral hood in newborn girls?

Of the three, increasingly brutal and drastic forms of FGM, hood removal is the least severe.

But it’s completely unnecessary and cruel. It should never be allowed.

Male genital mutilation (aka circumcision) is never necessary and should only be allowed for religious purposes.