Posts by phdmama06

I have wondered the same thing many, many times. The day after I had DS and I was still VERY groggy and tired, the doctor approached me with the circ form - "do you want to circ?" I said no, and he said something like...

Thank you for posting this. I might have seen it before elsewhere but hadn't read it in a long time. I hope it has given a lot of people something to think about.

We do give occasional "bubble baths" in the sense that I squirt a little of DS's body wash into the water while the bath is running. I'd probably tend to shy away from the colorful character bubble baths though - for some...

Quote: Originally Posted by Frankly Speaking It $eem$ counter-intuitive that he would recommend $o $trongly again$t circumci$ion and then would go ahead and do them. There must be $ome other influence there that is not...

Ahhhh, too bad it's this month - I am actually moving to WI NEXT month. I hope you will find someone who can represent the inactivist side at this talk!

Vaseline on the cord stump?! Never heard that one before... I have also never heard it called an unbilicord before. Hmmm. I will take her word for it on how the circ wound. I have never seen one before, and I certainly didn't want to...

Good for them because...??? Don't you just love comments like that. :

Quote: Originally Posted by Microsoap I think it's gross and sad. It's like when they take a picture of the baby boy fresh from the mother and put him on the scale for weighing or shortly after he's cleaned up. I only...

That's awesome!

Quote: Originally Posted by kldliam If she was fired for this incident alone, it should send a message to the other staff to keep their pushy pro-mutilation cra* to themself. I totally agree! Don't feel bad...