Circumcision

No- It’s unnecessary.

It's not necessary. I don't feel It's right for me to decide on circumcision if I'm of the opposite gender. So, I left it to my husband to ultimately decide. He would not want circumcision for himself if he was given the choice. So that's why we did not for our kiddo.

Not necessary. It’s the natural body intended by nature. As a woman I’m not entitled to speak on this so my partner decided and he didn’t want to circumcise and I completely support this.

So I personally know people uncircumcised and circumcised. I’m not a man so I asked what they thought (we are all friends) my circumcised friends have never had issues, my uncircumcised friends have had issue after issue. They describe it as “no matter how much you clean it you WILL get infections and UTIs A LOT as you get older. Many of them have went and got an adult circumcision (which cost a lot, is dangerous, and a terrible healing process) so personally I will circumcise.

Yes becus ive heard horror stories about toddlers who are uncircumcised.

If you clean and have good personal hygiene there is absolutely no need to be circumcised! I don’t know any male in my life that has had any issue what so ever in regards to not being circumcised, it’s unnecessary and so unnatural, if they were suppose to be like that then they would be born like that

@Beth when I hear people talk about “I know so many people that have had constant UTIs and infections”, it just makes me think of how dirty the people must be to have constant problems because foreskin doesn’t cause that unless you can’t wash yourself properly 🤮

@Mama A Literally, it’s just genuine hygiene🙃 got lots of icky people around them if it’s “common for people with foreskin to get UTI’s”

I got one for my son because it’s easier to clean and no infections

No we didn’t for both boys

Yes for many reasons, but even if we weren’t planning to have my son circumcised he would have been anyways because he required a surgery where they had to use his foreskin.

@Devin Lowe thanks for this info!

We got our son circumcised. Its just something we do in our culture.

@Elizabeth you’re welcome! My boyfriend was friends with them first and he’s circumcised so we went to our friends to ask their advice because as my boyfriend put it “he only knows his experience not others!” I also let him be the one to initiate that conversation lol and he got to decide what we did after hearing other’s experiences. I didn’t feel comfortable making it myself because I’m not a man 🙂

You are American. Yes, then it's more common to be circumcised than not. The American health system is not built to take care of men who are uncircumcised. And many uncircumcised men face uti after uti and when elderly die from infection because they are not cleaned properly. I saw a man come in for rehab and lost his penis total castration from a mersa infection he got in the hospital!! So American, yes, I'd get it, not American it's very common to be uncircumcised.

What happened to my body my choice?

After learning about what the foreskin is for and how it works, it was a definite no for me. Wipe it like a finger until it separates on its own (until then it’s fused as is like a sphincter in the way nothing goes back up so there’s no risk of poop or anything getting in) and then clean underneath it. I wouldn’t cut off parts of daughter’s labia to match me or in prevention of a potential UTI, I’ll just teach her how to clean herself properly. Body modifications can be done when they are of consenting age and with an informed decision making process, medical procedures (like cutting out an appendix after birth because many get appendicitis when they’re older) can be done when needed and not as “just in case” Www.yourwholebaby.org has a ton of info!

Nope, never. Absolutely pointless. Why would i mutilate my child's body? Happy to say i am married to an uncircumcised man and we have 3 uncircumcised boys, no one has had any issues so far. The way people pretend it's cleaner and more hygienic, they must believe that 90% of the males in the UK and Europe walk around with infected genitals?? It doesn't make sense, does it? If you want to do it because everyone in your family has had it done, or for religious reasons, fine, but don't pretend it's better for them. The science simply isn't there to back up that claim.

I let my husband choose, as I’ve never grown up with a penis lol. He wanted our son to have a circumcision as he does. Easy peasy🤷🏻‍♀️

If I have a boy, no. Unless medically necessary, it's mutilation.

My decision was based solely on my personal experience/opinion. I had been with one person that was uncircumcised that was towards the end of people before getting married. Everyone else I had been with was circumcised. I almost didn’t know how to act or what to do because I had never seen an uncircumcised penis in person/up close before and I was disgusted 🤢🤷🏾‍♀️

No I did not. Your whole baby is perfect.

@Rachel curious what surgery requires the use of the baby's foreskin?

Yes because I learned if you don't later in life they could end up with some kind of cancer weather it's true or not idk that & I don't want my child to have a sock over his pp the rest of his life more prone to infection if not washed right ect

All these myths as to why they need to is sad.

@Alina Hypospadias

@Baled Potato I think the worst is comments about it being gross. Imagine a man saying it’s gross that a girl has an “outie” or one labia longer than the other like 😮 someone who has poor hygiene will regardless of cut or uncut anatomy

@Rachel probably already happened but I've seen it talked about a lot in the Raising Your Whole Baby group and it seems the consensus is that it's safe as long as they can urinate to not do surgery.

@Alina He wouldn’t have been able to get an erection later in life and would have no chance at having fertility. With the surgery he will have a 100% “normal” looking and operating penis with full feeling and fertility. Even if it hadn’t already been done, I would 100% without a question get the surgery again for my son’s quality of life as an adult.

@Rachel I trust your judgement as his mom!

No. My husband wasn’t circumcised. So, we had a mutual agreement and decided not to with our two boys.

There is no reason to besides cultural. All the other reasons are not significant compared to uncircumcised people.

I did not circumcise my son. I figured I could more easily explain why I didn’t have him cut vs why I did have him cut allowing a part of him to be irreparably changed. After all he was born perfect! Not trying to shame anyone’s decision, just explaining the reasoning for mine.

I won’t be circumcising my son and my husband jumped on board from the complete opposite side of being hard set on it after I showed him more data, the benefits people talk about with cancer, STDs, etc are pretty insignificant compared to the risks. the American academy of pediatrics even states on their website that the benefits are so small that they do not recommend routine infant circumcision, only permit it for parents who explicitly ask. It’s classified as a cosmetic procedure so at the end of the day it feels wrong imo to submit my kid to a permanent cosmetic procedure without their consent

I let my partner decide bc I didn’t know what was best

Leaving that up to their dad . Like actually I feel no ways either or

I let my husband decide he decided not to after a lot of thought and research

No. We watched a documentary about it and apparently it can cause pain later in life. And we aren’t super into unnecessary body modifications, especially when he isn’t old enough to consent.

I let my husband decide. He wanted to get him circumcised so we did

Nope never my boys are uncircumcised as long as you clean it properly you don’t get any issues. I have mostly men in my family not one of them are circumcised and they’ve never had any problems. If it weren’t supposed to be there then it wouldn’t be

Unless of a medical issue then no absolutely not ,there has been people around me that are women and when they where younger they where circumsied and she suffered for years but it was for religious reasons I just didn't understand it when all she did all the time was saying that it hurt ,same for boys with circumtion it's literally mutilation 😔 people say it's supposed to be better ,it definitely isn't ..it's actually sad especially when mums make that choice on sons behalf

My partner is circumcised, my son is not. My partner is one of four boys, and 3 out of those 4 ended up having issues with their penis as kids and had to be circumcised due to medical issues, my partners dad had the same so whether it’s something that runs through the family idk, I’ll do my upmost to keep it clean and hygienic but if it’s medically necessary then yes we will no hesitation, otherwise there’s no point mutilating him without a good reason like something medical 😊

@Devin Lowe I have never known Any of my uncircumcised friends to have issues.

It’s not the cultural norm here in the UK so it’s not really a question we’ve had to grapple with. Most guys are walking around with their foreskins intact and they seem pretty happy about it. Personally, I don’t think it’s necessary and actually kinda wrong (unless it’s for a medical issue).

One of my boys will have to be as he has hypospadis so the foreskin will be used to reposition his urethra My other twin won’t be as he has no reason to need it

@Devin Lowe men getting UTI is really uncommon (husbands been a speclist urology nurse for nearly 10 years that's how I know). Their urethral is like 7cm long so for an infection to get down there is really difficult. So I really question their hygiene routine and what they're doing sexually by themselves or with partners.

Our son was circumcised at 1 mo old: my husband is circumcised (comes from a Muslim family) and in my family no one isn’t : so we did some researchs, because my husband is not really attached to his culture and was ok to avoid it if research was telling it was a bad thing or if I was really against it. When we look at the studies, we found out it was cleaner and helped to avoid sexual diseases transmission (like there is a big difference on the %). My husband also likes to be, he thought it is easier to clean, and also it would avoid drama in his family. Also, we live in an Arabic country where the doctors are top level, so we could trust the operation to be successful for sure : if we have been in France for example, honestly I don’t think I would have trusted the doctors and probably we wouldn’t have done it

The “cleaner” stance is so old and not true at all

All these comments about men who get all these utis must not clean are kind of mad, even girls who are super clean can get reoccurring utis. I can speak on my daughters behalf that it is usually not taken seriously when it's a symptom of potentially more serious underlying issues. It has taken a lot of perseverance to be referred to a urogynecologist at last.

No because I’m capable of teaching my son to actually clean himself, it’s not hard