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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, the UTI risk is only studied for the first year of life - just to clarify.

T look at it from a different point of view, no matter what side you are on, do you think the insurance industry had anything to do with the decision? I did hear that Medicaid isn't covering circumcision in a lot of states and this was to try to get them to. Actually, they basically said it in the AAP release. That would make me suspicious no matter which side I'm on.[/quote]

I agree that there is a financial angle. There is also a cultural angle, possibly, given recent attacks on circumcision in Germany and San Francisco. For the average middle-class American family, circumcision has been, historically, a cultural and religious decision.

It's worth noting that the AAP said only that the benefits outweigh the risks (which one would hope is true, given the. Umber of boys who are circumcised, right?) The AAP does not recommend routine circumcision.[/quote]

At Georgetown the give the newborns 'sugar-water"---no anesthesia when they perform it.  My boys didn't even cry.  That dose of sugar water is pure genius.  Granted---the older the male---the more invasive/larger and the sugar water is no longer as useful.[/quote]

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