When circ's go bad...

Good morning. I am not sure how they do them over there in Finland, but over here there is anesthesia for the baby. My son had a block, and he slept thru the entire procedure (my mom was in the room with him). Afterwards he never showed any signs of pain or distress. He was just as mellow as he was before the procedure. Over here people usually circumcise at birth or shortly thereafter. My son was 7 or 8 days old.


All the reasons you mentioned are the reason. My husband is circ'ed so I probably never have to worry about ever thinking about this as a real issue for me. (If we remain married forever of course).

Well, my dh's not circ'd and he's glad. Bottom line, men LOVE their penises circ'd or not!

I was always totally against circ'ing as uncessary until I read a medical journal article (I was referred by a friend who is a doctor) about cancer of the penis. Basically 100% of men who get it are uncirc'ed. So, for this reason and this reason only will I have my boy circ'ed if I ever have one. I figure it is a bit of pain they won't conciously remember whereas most with that cancer have to have a penectomy or partial penectomy.

As for how they do them over here, they simply dont, not on babies anyway. I have seen one circumsision on an adult who had tight foreskin and that was done under an epidural.

Like I said before I read through all the posts on the board and found that there was quite a lot of mentioning of circs being done without any anaesthesia. That's what got me so worked up in the first place. I'm glad to hear that it's not always painful.

I work in postpartum and see lots of circumcisions in the nursery and MOST (not all) of them have some form of pain relief. How effective it is - that's another story.

You are so lucky to live in a country where the idea of circumcision is unheard of and an intact penis is normal. I wish I did.

I think for babies that being uncirced is more hygenic. I have two little boys and nothing ever got under the foreskin. They have never had a UTI. And I never retract it. They can do it when they are older and there Daddy shows them. Don't need to wash under it just yet. As for adults, how hard is it to clean one. Really!! Just pull it back, wash, rinse and push it back.

As for it being traumatic for teenagers or adult men, imagine how it is for an infant who has no idea why surgery is being performed, especially for the little ones who get no numbing or pain killers. On a side note, why are there so many men in the U.S. who "had it done as adults" yet very few Europeans.