I just happened across this article while diddling around online. I'm not posting it to start 'the debate', but rather to see if what's posted here holds with what you see at your place of work.
By region of the US, the avg circ rates are
West - 31%
South - 56%
Northeast - 65%
Midwest - 75%
There wasn't any definition as to what states are included in which region, so I'm unsure how it was divided up.
At my hospital, the OBs do the circs, with the reasoning that OBs have surgical training while most general peds do not.
Ditto where I am. But when I had my son (not where I work), we were told that if we wanted to have a circ, then we had to address it with the peds and not bring it up to the OB. After I delivered, it was the pediatrician who asked me if I wanted her to circ my son. Didn't take me long to say "Nope."
OMG- I find this subject so emotive I can not even post as I knowI will offend it is so difficult for me to work within this are whilst keeping my options to myself- I think it is so difficult because in the UK my opinon was the common thought - how could two developed countries who are so close share the same evidence be so different on this. I have read and re read the evidence and still cannot move from my stance it is fanicating and tragic that a whole nations actions can be swade by a few with no real evidence- see now I gone and started!
OMG- I find this subject so emotive I can not even post as I knowI will offend it is so difficult for me to work within this are whilst keeping my options to myself- I think it is so difficult because in the UK my opinon was the common thought - how could two developed countries who are so close share the same evidence be so different on this. I have read and re read the evidence and still cannot move from my stance it is fanicating and tragic that a whole nations actions can be swade by a few with no real evidence- see now I gone and started!
There are a lot of people who agree with you, belinda.
I've been polling a lot of my coworkers informally and I've found a surprising number who either are anti-circ, have apologized to their boys for having them circed, or who have all girls but had they been boys wouldn't have been circed. This goes for nurses, techs, and OB residents. I've been surprised at the # of residents - the ones who are doing the circs - who either lean toward not circing or are staunchly against it and hate doing it.
I work in a small rural hospital....probably 65 % medicaid population, mostly high-school or less educated, few hispanic, and the circ rate is probably 98 per cent. Few attend classes or are motivated to seek out real information. As far as I know NY medicaid pays ( like I said in another thread, people move to NY state to receive our benefits.........and we are going under with the tax burden ) The peds and midwives do the circs in our hospital. I long ago gave up trying to educate the uneducable.
I long ago gave up trying to educate the uneducable.
I apologize in advance if I'm reading more into your statement than you intended, but it sounds like you (and a few others in this thread) are implying that the only enlightened position to take is to be anti-circ. You're entitled to that opinion (if indeed that is what you are saying), but I'm here to tell you that there are some of us who are educated and who have looked at this question and either do not find circs physically or morally repugnant or actually believe them to be of some value.
I don't think anyone likes the thought of infants being subjected to poorly done circs or not being given proper pain management. But beyond that, there ought to be room to agree to disagree.
Too many times, when the subject of circs comes up, there seems to be the suggestion that there is only one right opinion and that anyone who does not share that opinion is somehow ignorant or barbaric or both.
Maybe some of you are communicating that without being aware of it.
I realize that being pro-circ or even circ-neutral is currently out of fashion. But, please, be careful not to judge those who feel that way. It isn't always out of ignorance or insensitivity. There may be people who are okay with circing who keep quiet because they don't want to deal with the emotional backlash of speaking their thoughts on the subject.
Too many times, when the subject of circs comes up, there seems to be the suggestion that there is only one right opinion and that anyone who does not share that opinion is somehow ignorant or barbaric or both.
Maybe some of you are communicating that without being aware of it.
I realize that being pro-circ or even circ-neutral is currently out of fashion. But, please, be careful not to judge those who feel that way. It isn't always out of ignorance or insensitivity. There may be people who are okay with circing who keep quiet because they don't want to deal with the emotional backlash of speaking their thoughts on the subject.
Well said and have yon ever aked yourself why?
I am not just anti-circumcision, I am against any forced cutting of a child's genitalia. It's a human rights violation. There's no ethically responsible reason to continue to amputate healthy erogenous tissue.
During a male circumcision, doctors remove the foreskin of the member, a mobile sheath with thousands of nerve endings, reducing sensitivity and production of natural lubricants. In some African countries, girls and women have their privy parts removed as a rite of passage, for reasons including hygiene and preventing unwanted pregnancies. You cannot except that one is right because it happens in America - whichever way you look at circumission male or female it is a violation. This tread will proberly be closed now- due to my post- long live the forskin!
I am not just anti-circumcision, I am against any forced cutting of a child's genitalia. It's a human rights violation. There's no ethically responsible reason to continue to amputate healthy erogenous tissue.
During a male circumcision, doctors remove the foreskin of the member, a mobile sheath with thousands of nerve endings, reducing sensitivity and production of natural lubricants. In some African countries, girls and women have their privy parts removed as a rite of passage, for reasons including hygiene and preventing unwanted pregnancies. You cannot except that one is right because it happens in America - whichever way you look at circumission male or female it is a violation. This tread will proberly be closed now- due to my post- long live the forskin!
I think we all know what circumcision is and what it entails. So I'm not really sure why this is appropriate as it doesn't relate to the original inquiry.
In the midwest here. I'd say for our hospital the percentage is about right. We have a larger hispanic population in the summer. And I know the women that deliver at home rarely circ... but adding everything up it seems to be about right.
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At my hospital, the OBs do the circs, with the reasoning that OBs have surgical training while most general peds do not.