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Absolutely not.
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We just found out this baby is a girl, so it's
A decision we get to put off for now, but DH and I are almost positive if we have a boy we won't be doing it. He is, and our initial thought was the whole "he should look like dad", but after thinking more both of just can't justify a medical procedure if that's the only reason. Neither of us are super comfortable with altering our babies body forever without him having a say, and once it's done it can't be undone.All that to say DH gets the most say, and he's certainly not upset he was circumsized, we mostly just felt like because we don't have a strong opinion either why, it's better to lean on the side of not.
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It was DH's call...he was pretty adamant that we do it. I didn't really care, but our OB said he had a lot of extra skin and would have had a hard time keeping it clean if we hadn't.
That said, I totally ugly cried when I saw what it looked like right after. Ugh...not sure I'd do it again. -
@twoofeverything: We made the decision to do it before we had him, and the first couple of days in the hospital taking care of him before he was circumcised, i couldn't help but think, "Nothing's wrong with him. Why am I sending him to this procedure tomorrow?" And it broke my heart when I saw it afterwards. We will still circ any future sons but if it wasn't for DH really wanting it I wouldn't have done it.
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We will not.
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Nope, we both agree it's not something we will do if we have a son(s).
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Yes.early on in pregnancy I told DH it was his decision and he wanted it. As soon as DS was born I wanted to back out. It just did not feel right. We ultimately did not have it done in hospital and it was done at 10 days old. I cried the entire time and made DH go with him. It wasn't even that I feel it's right/wrong it's that I felt I didn't know/it can't be undone/so afraid something would go wrong. The first of many similar decisions but I think in the future I will not defer to other parent for a serious decision without us both weighing all of the pros/cons and making an informed decision that we both agree on.
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No, we decided not to and are happy with our decision.
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We have a girl, but if we ever have a son we definitely won't circ. I was already against it (DH agrees. He is not American), but recently two if my friends in my mommy group have had to have second procedures because if reattachement (?) issues which just reaffirms my decision so say no.
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For religious reasons, if we have a son he will be. Hoping for a girl this time though, so we can dodge it
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Nope.
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we did because it was important to DH. I was against it but felt he had a little more say in that decision.
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No, we are not going to circumcise our son. We decided before we found out the sex and when we found out we knew for sure that we wouldn't be doing it.
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nope
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Left that decision up to DH, and he was adamantly for it. I have mixed feelings. I was glad to have a girl so we didn't have to deal with it.
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Nope, and no future sons will be either. It caused a major shitstorm with my family unfortunately.
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Nope!
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We did the day after his birth
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If our baby is a boy we won't be getting it done. My husband is but he doesn't have strong feelings about it one way or another, so he is leaving it up to me.
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Nope.
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@Danizaur: reading that made me tear up! @hilsy85: really?? that's crazy! my mom asked me, offhandedly, once he was here. it would never occur to me to ask anyone else!
No, we did not and would not in the future.
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We had à girl but won't circumcise any future boys. It's really not a thing in the UK though.
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@scg00387: omg it was insane. My father basically almost disowned me over it. Fun times!
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Our situation is a bit different, but no, DS is not circumcised currently, but he will be in about a month. He has a minor birth defect in that area, and they need the skin to make the repair. Sigh. Not something I am looking forward to.
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Our son is not and we wouldn't circumcise any future sons either. We both already knew that we wouldn't if we had a boy before I was even pregnant so it was easy for us.
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Yes, DS1 is and DS2 will be too. It was done in the hospital by my OB when he was about 3 days old. We've had no problems but we were warned to watch for re-attachment.
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My MIL just asked us this! We will not if we have any boys. She flipped out over that.
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@lauraeabel: That's pretty much exactly how we were. We didn't have strong feelings either way, had no religious reason to do so, and ultimately decided that it would just be a cosmetic surgery and we weren't comfortable making that decision for him. We decided that if it's a huge problem for him when he's older and HE really wants to it done, we'll pay for it.
But as I don't have a penis, I told D that the decision was ultimately his to make...his was the deciding vote.
@hilsy85: Really? Over your son's penis? Was it a religious thing? That's nuts!
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We did not. Honestly the only reason I was slightly disappointed when we learned we were having a boy was because we'd have to make this decision!
But in the end DH and I just didn't think it was necessary. Although we were probably offered the procedure by a half dozen hospital workers.
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Dh is not and lo isn't either.
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@lovehoneybee: ha I know it's completely ridiculous. Yep, we're Jewish (but not religious) so he basically just did not understand how we could choose to not do it.
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@hilsy85: Ah, okay, well I guess that makes a bit more sense! I'm sorry you had to deal with it, though!
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@lovehoneybee: thanks!
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@hilsy85: ohh ok. that element at least makes a LITTLE more sense to me. so sorry though
@Katrocap: they asked us in the hospital visit/meet and greet and then I never heard anything else about it! that's so weird.I'm really surprised by the poll results! While I don't ask anyone, all the babies I do know about, are not. Our very non-crunchy pedi said she sees very few circumcised babies any more, and that she'd never do it to her son if he was born today -- which shocked me!
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Our mind was already made up before we knew the gender, we will not be circumcising our son.
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@scg00387: our pedi said the same thing re: not doing it to her own kids nowadays! I'm not surprised by the poll results though, as I think it is still thought of by many as the norm/standard.
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@scg00387: @hilsy85: Our pedi said the same thing about her three sons! Although she also said it's still very common to do around here (and it was offered to us at at the hospital about a dozen times), but she's starting to see more parents opting against it.
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We discussed it when we didn't know what sex Lorelei would be, and decided that we would not.
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@mrs. bird: They're called intactivists! They protest the AAP every year.
My son is, but I tried to talk DH out of it. In the end, he just wasn't comfortable with teaching E how to manage things in the future. Even though, geez, I could have. But I guess 8 year old boys don't like their moms telling them how to take care of their foreskin, heh.
@Pepper: He'll do wonderfully, mama.
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Nope.
I don't understand the debate over it though, because what you do with your son's penis has no effect on me! ha.
Our midwife was actually very passionate about this subject, to the point that following the birth she would not continue care with a child who was circumcised (her prerogative, as a healthcare provider). She provided a lot of factual, educational material on it to help us make our decision. We decided that we saw no medical reason to circumcise.
@Katrocap: they asked us in the hospital visit/meet and greet and then I never heard anything else about it! that's so weird.
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