Circumcision

i don’t have a son but i would only do it for medical purposes and ultimately leave it up to my husband. 😊

I agree with @Star I'm from Europe and there it's not usually even up for discussion. So no.

My way of thinking is that if they were born like that I don’t think it’s necessary. Just have to teach them proper hygiene

My boys all are. I left it up to my husband who wanted it done.

Agreed. It has a function, to protect.

It's an unnecessary risk. It's also mutilation and trauma for no reason. If they want it later for some reason that is their choice. There are alot of complications and even deaths from circumcision.

The way they feel everything because they’re too small for anesthesia 😣😣 idk I would feel so bad putting him thru that

Yeah I personally think it's barbaric. Just another messed up thing that's wrong in the US, sorry for criticizing y'all's country 😆

My boy is perfect the way he's born 🥺 I did change a circumcised baby for the first time yesterday and I'm ashamed to say I immediately took friendship points off his mom 😭😭😭

@Susie trust we know we suck 😅

@Star everyone does

Here is the only place I can critique the US, my in laws and husband are EXTREMELY patriotic to the point of "immigrants should get out if they wanna complain". And I'm...a recent immigrant 😩

Pregnant with our first boy and we won’t be circumcising him🤍 I had to convince my husband by showing him some research because he felt he had more say simply because he has a penis I guess😂 but I feel like it’s too big of a decision not to inform and advocate on and he quickly came around after seeing the evidence and hearing me out

I didn't do it because Florida Medicaid considers it cosmetic and I didn't feel the need to do that to them

my so and i both had opposite thoughts on it. i didn’t want to, he did. his reasonings seemed too superficial for me to fold so i j made a game day decision not to and he didn’t oppose it. we agree now he’s perfect the way he was made and it would only be necessary for medical reasons if they pop up in the future.

@Katrina that’s why we show them proper hygiene just the same as women should know proper hygiene or else we get infections. And that’s different because that is where it becomes a necessity compared to doing it when they’re born. I’m not arguing or judging you because at the end you’re doing what is best for your baby and ofc take proper care of it to let it heal properly. I just personally think it’s not necessary unless it’s an medical emergency

From Australia here. I decided not to circumcise both of my boys unless it was medically indicated (which it wasn’t). The reasons being: - Circumcisions destroy between 10-20 thousand nerve endings. - Circumcised penises are not “cleaner” or “less prone” to infection. My husband is a proud foreskin owner of 29 years and has never had hygiene issues or infection. - Whether circumcised or not, all penises are ugly so there’s no cosmetic reason. At the end of the day, my child is not old enough to understand the risks and benefits of having either a circumcised or uncircumcised penis and cannot make an informed choice. If he wants to circumcise his penis when he is older, I will absolutely support that decision. If it were a little girl in question, cutting off part of her genitals wouldn’t even be a consideration because of how absurd it is. That being said, I understand there are circumstances where a circumcision is medically necessary.

All penises are ugly 😂😂😂😂 ahahahaha

I've also heard from men I've had sex with that sex hurts because too much of the foreskin was cut off. Or on the other hand not being able to ejaculate during sex because of a lack of sensation. Never had an issue with uncircumcised men (which is most of what I had) or a dirty one, they all knew how to wash 🤷‍♀️

I have enjoyed all these comments! YOU GO LADIES! ❤️ I love the quality of education, & the advocacy you guys took for your sons even if your SO was opposed. Just because we don’t have a penis doesn’t mean we can’t fend for our boys that do!

We did only because my husband wanted to. I was against it both times but left it up to him. Plus the second time kinda felt obligated because we had with our first. I will say though that with our first the family med doctor at the hospital messed it up and they had to stop part way through and it had to be redone when he was 6 months old under anesthesia. And so with our second we scheduled it outside of the hospital in a clinic with a pediatrician who does them very regularly and he let us be in the room during it and they do use lidocaine at least since they don’t do anesthesia. He did tell us though that it isn’t medically necessary and the pros and cons are about equal whether you do or not. When our son’s got messed up in the hospital our nurse did tell us though about how she didn’t have her son circumcised at birth and at 19 he had to have it done for medical reasons and it was awful to watch him go through that at 19 and she wished she would’ve done it for him as a baby.

We both wanted to have our boys done but the end decision would have been up to my husband. Both boys are done. Part for hygiene when they are lazy teens and also for when they are elderly as there are a ton of issues for older men when it gets hard for them to clean. Part because every male in our families are circumcised so that's normal for us and also because we wanted to

for me it is genital mutilation of children. Parent should not have a say on this. its a permanent change in child body with potential life long side affects

I’m in the UK, it’s generally not a done thing here

All the men I’ve known have had it done, except 1. I was on the fence when I had my son, but my husband felt strongly to do it, so we did.

@R I disagree. It’s better done when they’re infants, they won’t remember the pain as they get older, plus you’ll clean the wound better to prevent infections. I have a friend who got circumcised at 30 and he cried for weeks. He also got an infection as he didn’t clean the wound properly.

When I am blessed with a son I would definitely get him circumcised. My Christian faith permits it and personally I find circumcised men cleaner and with better hygiene. No woman wants to sleep with a man with unclean or smelly uncircumcised 🍆

@Laura we are no one to tell you or judge you on what you do with your babies 🙂‍↔️ we didn’t circumcise our boy and my husband plans on teaching him how to properly clean down there to prevent any infections but as we know some men are nasty and lazy to take care of their hygiene 😣 at the end these decisions are made thinking about what’s best for our babies

I don’t agree with genital mutilation

My partner is not circumcised, so we both knew we didn’t plan to circumcise our son, unless there’s a medical necessity for it.

@Star sorry I didn’t mean to sound rude. It’s just that all the uncircumcised men I’ve previously been with have been highly unhygienic.

@Star take out however you want to. You do you and see how it turns out. Damn

I've been with loots of uncircumcised men because I'm from Europe. Never had a smelly one. Sorry you didn't choose better

It’s about hygiene yall 😭 they can be stinky and have infections whether they are circumcised or not. some coochie be stinky and they don’t gotta cut themselves to prevent it 🫢

I’m Catholic and circumcision is theologically Jewish

I never got my boy done. I personally don't think it's necessary. Its not my body to make that choice. I couldn't put Mt baby through that either xxx

I respected my boyfriend’s decision, and my son ended up having to have it done at the age of 6 or 7, and it is more painful when they are older. I tried to avoid all of that in the beginning but he didn’t want me to do it. If you can see they have too much skin I would do it, that’s what my case was like.

@Whitney Brooke🩷 aww poor baby, they didn’t offer any anesthesia though? Ik the healing process is also painful though

No, it’s maltreatment in my opinion and it’s no proof circumcision means cleaner and no infection. My cousin got circumcised as a baby and got an infection at around 8 years old, sooo…

He actually has it done at the same time of a hernia repair down there so he has two things going on. But they had to put him to sleep for it, but it was the pain after words that hurt. But they say the older a boy gets it’s more painful for them to get it done at an older age vs them being little and not being able to remember it

We did and that was a decision that I left to my husband.