Circumcisions-Question

[Bipley]

I am currently posting on another board regarding circumcisions. Nonono... I'm not here to debate the topic all over again! :) What I want to know is this, for you OB nurses or Peds nurses, are you aware of any trends especially for the new docs out there where they are refusing to peform this procedure on a routine basis?

I am not even sure how to research this and that is why I am asking for personal knowledge on the topic.

Thanks!

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

We have around 400 deliveries a month, so say 50% of those are male, only one doc does circs at the hospital, maybe 6 a month. I am assuming that some babies are circed in the Peds office, but not many. In this city, I would think that maybe half of the Caucasian babies are circed, and probably none of the Hispanic kids. We have many different ethnic groups, but it seems to be the white American boys that suffer, not the European or Laotian immigrant babies.

Most of our newborns are cared for by our Ped Hospitalists, and none of them do circs.

The doc who does them in the hospital uses what I think looks like an instrument of torture, a Gomco Clamp. We have had the Plastibells around for years, never used.

Ya know, I think that every time I see a circ . . . .that it would make a great torture device.

steph