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We weren't pulling Js back far enough, we still do every few changes and he's 13 months...mostly it's habit now!

@coacheswife123: No worries! We didn't know until his 9mo checkup and the pediatrician said something so its not like I knew to do that!! :-)I no take home manual, unfortunately!

@coacheswife123: We didn't get much instruction on how to care for Xander's either and we weren't pulling the skin back and he had a bit of refusing happening, which we discovered at his 4 month checkup! We had to pull it back to separate it again and it was so red. I felt so horrible. But Xander didn't seem overly concerned about it, so I'm guessing it didn't hurt him too badly. We're reapplying vaseline now to the area to help it heal and hopefully help prevent any refusing happening.

So... if I were you, I'd keep pulling the skin back, and if it's red, maybe put some vaseline on it.

@coacheswife123: Yeah, we had to pull the skin apart (cue crying on this Mama's part because I thought we were torturing the poor baby) on Saturday and we've been putting vaseline on it ever since. It's definitely getting better and Xander doesn't seem to be in pain. It's definitely better to fix any issues now while they are still young!!

Ok stupid question time - what are you pulling back if he's been circumcised? Is there foreskin left? I'm having a boy and this whole penis thing freaks me out, lol.

@MrsCB: Yeah, there's still skin, so when his penis is all shriveled up, the head kind of sinks back into the skin that's there. Check out your husband in cold water - it's probably similar! So you have to just push that skin back so the whole head of his penis is free so nothing tries to reattach. It's easy and as long as you do it from the beginning, you'll be all set. My pediatrician said you want to push it back so you see the deep purple line that circles the head. Not sure if that makes sense, but it will once your boy is here!

Also, I don't think you have to start doing it IMMEDIATELY. We put vaseline and guaze on his penis for the first couple weeks while it was healing and I doubt you need to push it back during that time. Plus the vaseline will help keep things from reattaching anyway. It's after that that you have to start doing it. That's my understanding anyway.

@MrsCB: Yeah, I'm assuming he'll grow into it too! I just wish I had known from the get go the correct care for it! Oh well!

@littlebittyhouse: How old is your LO? I think most pediatricians will check when you go to the well-visits.

@littlebittyhouse: Hopefully! You can always just check next time you do a diaper change. Just push the skin down to expose the whole head.

@kiddosc: same! i remember when he was little it would get a little nasty under the remaining foreskin and i would pull back a bit to clean. this is gross but his (male) pedi callled it 'head cheese' ewwwwww

I of course googled the crap out of this last night and most sites said that after the circ has healed there is nothing more that you need to do.

Seriously though, there should be an info sheet on how to care for a circ!

@coacheswife123: @littlebittyhouse: Yea, we got instruction on how to take care of it while it was healing, but no direction after that. I've cleaned it well before after some nasty diapers, but it's never been something I specifically check.

@Adira: Now I need to wait until tonight until I can check it out. I've never been so impatient to check someone's junk, lol.