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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i don't understand why that makes sense.  why shouldn't the mother have a say in whether her child's body is going to be cut or not?

[quote=Anonymous]My own feeling is mothers get no say in this one if Dad feels strongly one way or another.[/quote][/quote]

Exactly.  I'm a mom and I get a say in the medical decisions affecting my son, just as dad has a say in the medical decisions affecting our daughter.  FWIW, we did not circumsise our son.  He's different than dad but so what.  They're going to be different in countless ways.  I wouldn't make him be right handed just so they can match.  As for teasing, your son's brother's will tease him about many things, maybe this maybe not.  Whether or not it will be something discussed in a locker room, I doubt since many more boys are not circumcised than when we were kids.  Ultimately, I think the right approach is to assess the medical reasons for doing it and decide if they compel you to do so, if so fine.  If not, then don't.  We read the medical justifications/studies etc.  And were not persuaded that the purported medical reasons warranted the procedure.  If our son develops a problem such that he needs it done, then we'll do it--as with any other surgery.  (I know many other families in the DC area that took this approach and none of us are anti-medicine, we all vaccinated our kids etc.).

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