Some think so differently

[RoxyJas]

Like, a completely different mindset all together! I guess you would have to, to let your newborn baby be subjected to such a thing. Its just so strange to realize how okay some people are with circ, and even joke and laugh about it!
I was having a conversation with an aquaintance who I haven't seen since she had her now 3 year old. We got on the subject of things we kept of our children's baby-hood, and she laughed and said the other day she was going through her son's newborn things and found the plastibell with his dried up foreskin still on it. I must have just sat there with a dumbstruck, nauseated look on my face, because then she laughed and said, "I must have kept it so if he ever gets mad at me for having that done I will just throw it at him and say 'Here, you can have it back'." I seriously had to excuse myself from the conversation and leave for fear of causing a scene... We were at a mutual friend's birthday party. Had to vent I guess. Seriously, I'm just left

[MCsMom]

WOW - I am thinking that must be some huge mommy guilt coming out that she would a-keep something like that and b-say that. How sad.

[Nandi]

What a terrible story! You have better manners than I do, I would have probably given her a piece of my mind..

[Minarai]

That was just plain sadistic, keeping a severed part of her son's body to use as a weapon against him.

[Frootloop]

Ok, hopefully I won't get in trouble for saying this (even though I'm not really going to type it), but that's just completely up.

WOW.

[mama24-7]

OMG that is one of the grossest, sickest things i've ever heard. :

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[perspective]

Originally Posted by Minarai

That was just plain sadistic, keeping a severed part of her son's body to use as a weapon against him.

Really, I think she made that comment in an attempt to release her own concern about if she made the right choice or not. And who would ever make a comment like that unless they thought they made the wrong choice?

If I had been cut in that way, and my parents kept it, actually I almost wish they did, because it would allow an easy way for me to open up and vent to them. And you can be sure as heck if I was that woman's son I would throw that piece of plastic right back at her!

[tutucrazy]

wow, I'm so sorry for that boy. If he ever gets upset about being altered without his consent his mother would essentially laugh in his face! V. sad.

[Minarai]

Originally Posted by tutucrazy

wow, I'm so sorry for that boy. If he ever gets upset about being altered without his consent his mother would essentially laugh in his face! V. sad.

Not just that, she'd be saying "I don't give a ; you're my property and I can do whatever the I want, so off, you impudent little brat."

[Blarg]

Originally Posted by RoxyJas

she laughed and said, "I must have kept it so if he ever gets mad at me for having that done I will just throw it at him and say 'Here, you can have it back'."

Yeah... if she has any desire to remain part of her son's life beyond age 18, that is probably not the best course of action.

It's a horrific thing for her to say. But like others here, I suspect there's something fragile behind it. Doesn't make it any less disgusting or horrendous, but... dunno.

[Evergreen]

Awww, what an awful joke- it is totally invalidating any qualms her son may have over having part of his body amputated with no consent or reason.

On a similar note one day at work another mom and I were once discussing how we'd kept our childrens' umbilical stumps. We both have only girls but another coworker ( with a boy) butted in, "What wold you have done if you'd had a boy?" I knew where he was going but played dumb and said, "I guess I would have saved his cord stump too." To which he had to explain, "Noooo, his foreskin?" I just gave him the worst look and said , "Ewww, I would never circumcise my child- so yeah, I guess technically I would have saved his foreskin." He just stammered but I could tell the gears were winding in the other mom's head and she said she didn't think she could do that either.

[Belle]

Originally Posted by Evergreen

Awww, what an awful joke- it is totally invalidating any qualms her son may have over having part of his body amputated with no consent or reason.

On a similar note one day at work another mom and I were once discussing how we'd kept our childrens' umbilical stumps. We both have only girls but another coworker ( with a boy) butted in, "What wold you have done if you'd had a boy?" I knew where he was going but played dumb and said, "I guess I would have saved his cord stump too." To which he had to explain, "Noooo, his foreskin?" I just gave him the worst look and said , "Ewww, I would never circumcise my child- so yeah, I guess technically I would have saved his foreskin." He just stammered but I could tell the gears were winding in the other mom's head and she said she didn't think she could do that either.

That's great!