Can anyone help me find this? down to the wire...

[mi.birthdoula]

I've spoke with and have the L&D nurse manager's support on our decision to leave our son intact, but she told me to make sure I have something to post on his bed so there is not any mistakes regarding circ or retraction. I know I've seen something like "Circ" with it crossed out on here before, and i've been looking for it again, but for the life of me I just can't find it. My DH plans on staying right by DS's side the entire time he is away from me, (sceduled section, she said no promises,but she will try to get him to recovery with me because I already have full support of both my OB, and the Ped -also my reg doc) but she said that the nurses may come into the room in the middle of the night while we are sleeping to check his diaper and whatnot, and may retract without knowing better. She said she will try to inform everyone not to even attempt to change our sons diaper (as she told us to write in our birth plan too) but that things do happen. I'm thinking of possibly even putting something on his bed about "only my mom and dad are to change my diaper" but I'm not sure yet. Anyways, does anyone know where I can find either of these things? Or anything else to get the point across?

I guess I'm just starting to freak out a little bit because we are scheduled for the section on Aug 14th, so I'm really down to the wire...I'm chalking it up to my momma bear instincts kicking into high gear at this point. I've had to fight tooth and nail with family and at 2 dif times DH about my decision to leave our son intact, and I'm not about to let some strange nurse/overzealous doc put my son through any unneccesary pain that I've fought so hard to avoid.

[joanq]

We had it written in our birth plan and on our admitting paperwork. I didn't think to put a sign on him....but I imagine a homemade one saying DO NOT CIRCUMCISE would be sufficient.

EVERY nurse who walked in the room asked "are you having him circumcised" and I replied "NO". It didn't seem like something that would be accidently done.

[fruitful womb]

Create "I'm Intact DON'T Retract my Foreskin" or and other quotes such as the ones joanq mentioned.

They're stickers and great for placing on diapers, files, and the hospital bassinets.

ETA:
you can also do this...


brb...

found it, the refusal form

[fruitful womb]

Originally Posted by joanq

We had it written in our birth plan and on our admitting paperwork. I didn't think to put a sign on him....but I imagine a homemade one saying DO NOT CIRCUMCISE would be sufficient.

EVERY nurse who walked in the room asked "are you having him circumcised" and I replied "NO". It didn't seem like something that would be accidently done.

Thats irritating.:

You really should complain about that. I'd say, "Why? is there something wrong with him? Why would he need a reduction surgery on his penis?"

[emma1325]

Hands off my foreskin! I'm taking my whole penis home with me, thanks.

[beru]

This is a little OT but...I was scheduled for a c-section when my daughter was breach. (She turned herself at 38 weeks so she ended up being a vaginal birth.) I interviewed the staff about what it would be like. The one thing that I found ridiculous is that I would not see my baby while I was in recovery for 2 hours! The nursing staff for newborns and for labor are different so apparently they don't know how to coordinate this tricky mother-baby-together thing. Also, I was told that the baby would have to be under warming lights after her bath...Anyway, I directed my husband to not allow a bath and to warm the baby on his bare chest if needed. I had the hospital pager numbers of 3 hosptial midwives, 1 staff OB, 1 resident OB and my family doctor. And I planned to demand my baby be brought to me as soon as I was closed up and there was no longer a need for a sterile field. I would continue asking every 5 minutes and page my "contacts" if necessary. And of course, my husband had directions on his side to keep asking.

[Night_Nurse]

Originally Posted by mi.birthdoula

She said she will try to inform everyone not to even attempt to change our sons diaper (as she told us to write in our birth plan too) but that things do happen.

?????????? :

How about the nurse manager informing the entire department that under NO circumstanced should any newborn penis be retracted in the first place??? Are they not up to date with current research and trends? The nursing staff should already be made aware of this and not to retract should be in their nursing policy & procedure manual! This just makes me angry! It's like she'd rather tell them not to change his diaper than to educated them and make sure they don't hurt any other children!

Personally, I would just make a sign for his isolette and then inform the doctors (both your OB and the baby's Pedi) that under no circumstances will your son be circed. It's not like some random doctor will just wander in and circ him. Put a note in the crib and tell the baby's first nurse. Then tell her you don't want to have to keep explaining this to subsequent nurses so to have each nurse pass it on to the on-coming nurse during change of shift report. Also ask the first nurse to put a big Do Not Circ Note on the front of his chart (doctors use the chart for their daily notes and orders).

[eepster]

If you don't have time to order anything, then you can just go to an office supply store and get some mailing labels. Most word processing programs have templates that you can use to layout what you want.

Print a few pages of the with something simple and clear like "DO NOT CIRCUMCISE, DO NOT RETRACT." Put one on each diaper across the tabs, so that they seal the diaper shut. If anyone tries to get at his penis, they will have to rip the label.

[tutucrazy]

Get him a onsie from cafepress!

http://clothing.cafepress.com/item/i...eeper/56361189