Circumcision

My kiddo is 12 and we didn't circumcised him. Basically when he gets more older he will start washing it himself. Since at baby till now never needed to as it hasn't formed yet to that point.

All of my boys are circumcised ( I have 3) If you do do it, do it early, like a few days after birth, and the doctor will give you all the advice/ guidance in care and go over it a lot with you. It’s scary in the first 24 hours after, because you want to keep them chill and not too wiggly while it heals a bit. But my boys only were upset/ cried when they put the numbing needle in, they didn’t even react when the actual circumcision happened. Also that being said, it’s really scary for you and your husband, your cutting your very small baby and he can bleed to death very quickly, also another reason to do it as soon as possible so there isn’t too much blood flow to the area yet. All of that being said read everything about the pros and cons to decide. The only real reasons are 10% less chance of STIs and 50%less yeast infections. I choose to do it cuz I know 3 grown men who had to do it later in life due to serious issues with their forskin. Unless boys pull their forskins back it can

Hi! My boy is 5 months and uncircumcised and my boyfriend is so he was worried about cleaning and everything too. I suggest doing some personal research because I don't want you to get misinformation but a few key things. Don't pull his foreskin back, it's attached to the head so nothing is able to get under it unless you pull it back which tears it. It detaches on its own when they get older. Other than that cleaning is basically the same. You wash it like normal but just be careful about not pulling back his foreskin.

Get stuck/ not pull back later in life. This starts at 7, you need to be reminding your 7 year old boy to pull his forskin back every time he showers/baths or it can stay that way and not pull back without tearing. There are some real horror stories out there of teen boys/ men who didn’t know this and have had to tear themselves later to fix it or have surgery. It’s a decision to make for sure and it sucks but either way you just have to make choice and hope they understand in the future how ever they come to feel about it. Good luck!

I have two boys one 3 year old and one 6 months old. There’s not much you need to do. No dirt or anything gets inside. Never try to pull the foreskin back as it it can cause injuries. What I do is I simply wipe the area. The foreskin naturally retracts on its own around 3-7 years old. My son is 3 and it recently retracted. All is well both healthy boys no uti or whatever else they claim is the reason for circumcision. It’s not necessary and I’ve heard of and had boyfriends who live out their lives perfectly healthy and happy.

Both my boys are intact. Your Whole Baby is a great resource to teach how to clean and care for an intact penis until they are older. Complications are super rare, issues are more common in cut boys. And statistics on lower STI rates and infections are based on flawed studies. Countries that do not perform routine genital cutting on infants have lower urological complications in their entire populous from infancy to adulthood. I’m partially european and partially Asian, and have grown up in countries that do not cut (Singapore and Australia). Both my cultures and countries where I have lived do not circumcise. And all these horror stories of the problematic foreskin just doesn’t exist with the exception of extreme cases. In the US and globally, complications from circumcision exceed complications in intact men. Evidence Based Birth also has a 45 min podcast that dissects all the large studies on this issue in the past decade, and landed on there being no good medical basis for cutting.

So glad you don't do it. Sorry, but there's judgement from my side for everyone who does it without a medical reason. There's nothing that you need to consider when it comes to cleaning. It's fused in the first years of your little ones life. Tell every doctor BOT to retract. I'm actually surprised how many pediatricians don't know how to handle an uncircumcised boy. When they're older they will just retract and clean. But nothing really that needs to be considered. Nothing that is super different from circumcised boys.

My son and my husband aren’t. There’s not much you need to do. Just clean it with wipes and when bathing him but don’t pull it back. As they get older and clean it themselves with soap and water and what not they will start to pull it back on their own. We don’t need to do it for them when they are babies

This has been so incredibly helpful! Thank you all for the clear advice and answers without judgement❤️ both of our families are pretty pushy with circumcision so I really just wanted to make sure that we had some basic info to start from so that we can be best prepared for when he arrives in a few months!! I’m definitely relieved to know that there really isn’t much different in terms of care as a newborn! Thanks again for all of the shared info ❤️

Wow this was the nicest set of comments I've ever read on this topic.

If you need more help or need to ask any questions haha feel free to message me.

My biggest concern when having my now almost 3 year old Circumcised was definitely how the doctors performed the procedure. I was not one bit okay with it at all and at a point opt for leaving him uncircumcised. They usually don’t give the baby any medicine at all from the pain they are causing and usually just strap them down and do it as the same as torture!THAT part sounded too much for me so I went home with my baby boy and took some time to think on it! 6 months down the line, I thought about what he might have wanted for his self in the long run! I didn’t want him to be in college taking a shower and feel weird about his penis looking different from others! Or opting to get it done his self as an adult man which would cause more pain than doing it early on as an infant. My boy was also born with 12 fingers when he was born so I opted to get it all done together while he was sleep under anesthesia. That made me feel better about making that decision when he was around 6 months.