I talked to my OB today about it and he uses local when he does the prOcedure.
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Well we will have our ped do it in the hospital not the OB but he uses a local and a tiny bit of sugar water.
ETA this may be a moot point for us since we don't know what we're having
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Yes, ours did! I made sure that my boys were numbed up!
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Our rubbed an anesthetic on first to numb the area, and then gave three shots of local anesthesia. I've never heard of a doctor trying to circumcise without anesthesia!
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Yes I believe it's fairly common practice to numb the area first
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Mine said they use a local.
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My OB numbs and also dips his pacifier in something really sweet to help with the pain. It still hurts.
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@Honeybee:
@Oceanis723: I was under the impression that most didn't numb the area so it really freaked me out! -
@chopsuey119: Hmmmm, a couple things jump out at me: 1) the CNN article linked is from 1997, so practices may have changed since then and 2) it doesn't say where the circumcisions were taking place (e.g. hospital versus home versus medical office, etc...). So I wouldn't be too worried about this; it's probably nowhere near the real numbers.
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@Oceanis723: numbing is fairly recent for circ. Our generation didn't get numbed.
In our hospital obs perform the procedure & mine was one of the last to start numbing. She only started doing it within the past 10 years.
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@chopsuey119: @mrs. bird: I could be wrong. Maybe just in my area it's common. If its not I would definetly find someone who does it otherwise ouch!
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ours used local too!
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Yes, our OB uses local
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he numbed it up, ds was very alert when tehy did the procedure and he didnt make a peep when he got it done!
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They numbed the area, but with something similar to oragel. No needles or anything and gave him sugar water. He didn't cry about it until he peed.
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