Retractibility: Moms, share your experience.

[pdx.mothernurture]

This forum gets a lot of questions on normal age of retractibility and I know there are some great resources, such as http://www.cirp.org/library/normal/ and http://doctorsopposingcircumcision.o...etraction.html .

I thought it would be great to have an ongoing thread where fellow moms/parents can share their experience with regard to when their sons became retractable.

[pdx.mothernurture]

My son turned 5 in October and his foreskin seems to be loose/detached, but he hasn't retracted at all. We don't mess with it. I'm not the slightest bit worried. He pees fine and has never had an infection of any kind.

[MyBoysBlue]

DS1 was completely retractable by 5 and DS 2 is 2.5 and not retractable as far as I know.

[LavenderMae]

My 7.5 yr. old doesn't retract and neither does my 27 mth old. I am very glad I knew to read up about it so I wouldn't be concerned if my boys weren't retracting at x age and I would have the right information incase anyone else tried to tell me otherwise.

[Night_Nurse]

My son was pretty much fully retractable by age 2.5 yrs as far as I know. We never tried to see if he was retractable before then and then right around that time (during one of many times he had his hands in his pants) he showed us.
He's never had any uti or penile infections or problems.

[Lula's Mom]

My ds became retractable at about 3.5- I remember that it was Mother's Day, and he was really excited to bring me breakfast in bed, and then show me what he'd discovered he could do! Funny boy.

A few days before that (? Maybe a week or so? I don't exactly recall), he had a day of slight swelling & redness, and then some greenish discharge in his overnight diaper. Luckily I knew that smegma can be that color. Obviously it was just the final separation happening!

[Fi.]

My son will be 4 in March, his foreskin is about 3/4 detached (it is still "stuck" to the left side of the glans) and he can pull it back comfortably. He plays "peekaboo" with it in the tub to get it clean. He does not seem to notice or care about the part that is still attached and has no pain related to his penis.

AND his chordee straightened itself out without surgery

[Mamato3wild ponnie]

My son is 41/2 and is not retractable...he does however put his finger inside his penis and says ..look mama i can hide my finger in my peepee...you gotta love them.

[minkajane]

DS just turned 4 and is not retractable at all. Last week, he said his penis hurt a couple of days in a row. The tip of his foreskin looked a little raw, so I had him put a bit of Neosporin (the kind with pain relief) on it and he hasn't said a word since. I'm guessing it's a bit of separation trauma, but he's still got the puckering of the normal phimotic foreskin when he pulls it back. So who knows. No ballooning or anything just yet. It may be next week, it may be next year, it may be longer.

[Onemagicmummy]

both my boys were retratible around 3-4 yr old. DS1 i dont really remember when once he was out of nappies i stopped paying any attention to his neather regions unless he told me it hurt, which it did, once, he had a slight infection, he was 4.

DS2 on the other hand has recentaly come out of nappies and decided that pulling it back is a really good game. he is 3 and can get it all the way back. he also sticks things in there. his finger, pencils, beads, a plastic knife! we sharp stopped that!!

Kiz

[beru]

My son is 4.5. He is not retractible. I believe his foreskin has completely or almost completely separated from the glans but it won't retract because the opening is too small. When his foreskin separated, giant globs of smegma came out, not just tiny "pearls". That was an eye-opener to me.

[pigpokey]

Completely retractable since a young 2 and I've never seen any smegma associated with him.

[crunchy_mama]

My son is 4.5 and recently figured out he is retractable. He thinks it is his new penis and pretty cool.

[jenedee]

my 4 year old is completely retractable...and also has been enjoying the game of peekaboo for at least 2 years now.

[Dave2GA]

Nephew was fully retractable at 4 and loved showing everyone how it worked. My eldest was not fully retractable until 8.5. My youngest was still partially adherent at 10.5. All of this is entirely normal.

Very few physicians, including pediatric urologists, seem to know this. They always think circ is the solution for the non-problem. I've been fighting this nonsense for 27 years now.

[KMK_Mama]

My son had been complaining about his penis hurting for a few months and to my surprise, it's mostly retractable. It's still adhered a little so you can't see the entire glans, but he finds it fun. He will be 3 next month.

[MommytoB]

My lil guy partially retractable at 3 1/2 then he was fully retractable age 4 then decided to come partially retractable again at 4 1/2.

He is able to retract his foreskin give it a swish in the tub and cover himself back up.

I have more issues of him brushing his teeth and washing hair than i would have with his foreskin and he has had zero problems with his foreskin but around 8 cavities . Also, my lil boy had cradle cap when he was a baby.

The only problem with foreskin he had was some doctors can not keep their hands off.

[lotus.blossom]

My DS is 2.5 and fully retractable. There is a little area of attached skin on the underside but he can pull it fully back on the topside. I get a kick out of him. We're pottying and doing naked time a lot and he just lays around playing peekaboo. Just this afternoon he called his head a flower and an ice cream cone. But mostly its his "penuts."

I was feeling nervous about it that it happened so early but there are no problems! I showed him how to rinse under the faucet after his bath so thats out of the way! (the kid likes bubble baths!!)

[Contrariety]

DS somehow managed to retract himself completely when he was probably about 10 mos old when he was in the bathtub. It's the only time I've seen the glans of his penis, but he most definitely had it all the way back. I was surprised to see it, but not shocked, as his foreskin would balloon when he peed even since he was just a few weeks old.

[mommyinIL1976]

DS1 became retractable around 7 or 8. DS2 was a completely different story. He was basically fully retractable since birth (or maybe a week old). He was born with an extremely long and loose foreskin. It extended about 3/4inch past the glans, which doesn't sound like a lot, but on a newborn it's quite long.

Being so long and fully retractable at birth, the ped. thought something had to be wrong He first thought hypospadias, but his glans was normal, except for a basically non-existent frenulum. He still has quite the long foreskin, but he needs every bit of it when he's erect, so I think it was a perfect design