Not wanting to start a debate about what is best... Simply, did you/or will you get your son circumcised?
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I did. But if I'm having another boy I don't plan to again.
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Neither are.
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No, E is not circumcised. We went back and forth about it for a while, but ultimately couldn't find a compelling reason to do it past "so he'd look like dad".
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It's funny, I've never seen an uncircumcised penis. I didn't even think twice about the choice. My neighbor is very anti circ, she posts all this stuff on her FB page. Kinda scared she might find out B is circ and start protesting in our front yard.
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We did with DS #1 and will with DS #2.
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No. So glad DH didn't put up a fuss.
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yup he is and if #2 is a boy, he will be too.
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It was DH's choice. He decided that since he was and my bonus son was, that he didn't want him to be the odd man out
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I would but it's not offered in my area (would have to drive 4 hours) so we won't .
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Yes, I think so.
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@littlek: i literally lol'd at the thought of your neighbor protesting in your yard. for the record, i'm by no means anti-circ, it was just a traumatic experience for me and i don't care to go through that again.
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We did not.
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I don't know! We're having a girl this time so we dodged a bullet having to make that decision. Before we knew I asked my husband his thoughts and he said he had assumed we would because "isn't that what people do?" I told him that it's not always done anymore and that I'd leave it up to him since the one holding the penis probably had better perspective on this than I did. He said if we were having a boy he'd have to think about it more before making a decision.
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I debated this and felt guilty about this from the time I found out we were having a boy. We didn't make our decision until he was born and ultimately wound up doing it. It was a bit stressful (the baby did wonderfully) you couldn't even tell if he was upset by the time get got back to us 15 minutes later, it was all self induced stress.
I will say my husband is uncircumcised and that is one of the reasons I did it. There are some minimal medical pros to doing it (though I like to think my child will be low risk, but you never know). I asked every doctor in my practice and my friends in the medical field. Ultimately, this is largely regional and really personal. I found no one would really guide my answer at the end of the day.
In my social circle I thought it was interesting how opinionated all of the females were and how relatively care free men were about it.
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DS is.
I was against, but DH was for. We had a boy so I let DH make the final decision even though I strongly voiced my opinion.
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If we have a son, we will not circumcise him.
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Nope. We dodged a bullet last time because we had a girl, but if we do ever have a boy it's a firm no. We'll catch hell from DH's traditional family most likely, but it's not up for discussion.
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I don't think we will if we have a son; b/c DH isn't. But it is interesting, if DH was, then I'd probably say yes!
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DS is not circumcised. We had a really tough time making the decision in the moment, but haven't wished for a second we'd had it done.
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If we do he will be. This is one of those scenarios where DH has more say than I.
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Yes, he is circumcised.
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If we have sons, they will not be.
@littlek: my dad was on a middle school trip to DC (he's a teacher) and there was actually a protest over circ going on... Poor awkward middle schoolers didn't know what to do
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Yes, for religious reasons.
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@mrs. bird: my neighbor was there, seriously.
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Yes, my son is circumcised and if we have more boys they will be as well.
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Yes, he is circumcised and if we have another DS, he'll be circumcised too.
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DS is not. After 15 days of being poked and prodded in the NICU I didn't want another thing for him to go through. Its not that I was strongly against it but I just didn't bother.
LO will be because DH feels strongly about it. Fine by me.
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Yes. DH really wanted him to be. If it was just up to me then I probably wouldn't have. But it was one thing DH was adamant about. It turned out well though. We will circ any future sons as well.
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No we will not. We decided we would rather not make a decision for our son that cannot be undone.
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I have left the decision up to DH for any children to be. He is, I have never seen an un-circumcised, and as long as we can get it done at the hospital we would. We also have several friends who do it for religious purposes, and they said they would hook us up!! ha ha
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Nope, I haven't found a good reason to. DH isn't circumcised and it has never been a problem for him.
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If we have a boy he will be, DH is very adamant abotu it, and honestly I don't know anyone in our area that is not, I wouldn't want DS to feel weird?
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We ultimately decided to, but it was a tough decision for me and I almost changed my mind at the last minute.
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Yes. I was unsure about it, but DH felt really strongly about it - he felt very strongly about very few pregnancy/newborn related things, so I went with what he wanted.
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Nope - if we ever have a boy he most definitely will not be. I used to think it was just what was done, but once I moved abroad and realised it wasn't the norm, I did some research into it. I am now firmly in the no way camp - and my European, non-circ'd DH most definitely agrees.
My US family thinks it's weird though and I know I'll get flak for it if we do have a boy someday, but that's their problem to get over, not mine.
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Yes, I let my husband make this decision.
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No. I couldn't have lived with myself if something had gone wrong (even though it's extremely unlikely). Luckily my husband is intact, so I didn't even have to argue about it!
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@jmarionsmith: same here! It might be a fight with my husband though. We shall see.
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@Alivoo01: This is what would happen if #2 is a boy-- I'm against it, but I told the hubs it's his call as the dad. DH is circ, so he wants his son(s) to be, too.
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