Fact or fiction?

[CC_muffin]

One of my dear friends has a nine month old son who is intact. (Hooray!) We were talking the other day, and she said that intact boys don't pee and spray during diaper changes like circd guys do. I had never heard that before and was just curious-fact or fiction? Thanks!

[JamieCatheryn]

Both my boys only did a few times under 1 month old, I think because they were unused to having cold air on there. Do circed boys often pee in response to exposure throughout infancy? If so maybe because they're more exposed without foreskin covering them up?

[philomom]

My intact boy never sprayed me.

[MommaKitten21]

my son is 16 months old and I have never had the spray or the straight up in the air pee ... ever!

For him it just kinda trickles out, never been a problem, but definitely a much different experience from changing my nephew's diapers and kids I've babysat who are circ'd!

[sam1980]

My 4 month old sprays and he is intact. When he is brand new, he did it quite often. He doesn't usually do it now.

But... over the weekend we were at his g-ma's and letting him go diaper-free for a bit. He sprayed pee all over DH's shoe and leg LOL. Then again all over the wood floor.

I have also seen little girls who could spray pee quite far. I don't think it has much to do with foreskin, etc.

[Mrsboyko]

This is my theory too. Every little boy (circced) that I have changed has tried to spray me. My nephew got me on a few different occasions that I was watching him. My son (intact) did it maybe 2x, both under a month old.

[Super~Single~Mama]

My little guy has peed so much during diaper changes He's intact.

[strawberryfields08]

My DS is intact and never peed on me during a change. Once at WIC during a diaper change the nurse mentioned something about being happy little boys were intact and that she noticed they pee during changes less than the circ'd boys she sees. So maybe?

[GoodMomma]

I personally don't see how it would matter. I've been peed on by my daughter, lol.

[Friday13th]

I've never been sprayed. DS peed on his own feet a few times as newborn while I was fumbling around trying to snappi a prefold on him.

I also had a nurse at an appointment start to take his diaper off with like half a dozen wipes in her hand ready to block the spray she apparently thought was going to happen, she got the diaper off, realized he was intact and said "oh, I don't need these" and tossed the wipes.

I always assumed exposed glans were more sensitive to sudden cold air, triggering the pee spray, not to mention every intact little boy I've ever seen has a penis that points down, not out when not erect so there'd be no spraying up or out.

[eepster]

DS did it pretty often. I used to call it his "imitation of a fountain." When he was about a year or so old he figured out that by pinching the end of his foreskin while doing it he could make the pee go in all kinds of directions.

[Fuamami]

Ha! I wish!

I remember the first time my newborn son peed all over his face. I felt like the worst mom ever, but unfortunately he snuck in a few more of those before he was older. My second son did it too.

[BugMacGee]

Yes, intact boys do spray. All our preemies are intact and let's just say, we don't leave them exposed any longer than absolutely necessary!

[QueenOfTheMeadow]

All three of my boys are intact. They have all sprayed me, so umm, I'm pretty sure that's a myth.

[Anastasiya]

All three of my boys are intact and have never sprayed anyone.

My daughter on the other hand sure did, and quite often!

[Crunchy Frog]

Originally Posted by BugMacGee

Yes, intact boys do spray. All our preemies are intact and let's just say, we don't leave them exposed any longer than absolutely necessary!

My little boys were preemies, and for the first several weeks they peed practically every diaper change. However, after they were a couple months or so, they pretty much stopped. They are 9 months old now and it almost never happens.

I wonder if it's possible that the spraying you see is an artifact of prematurity that they grow out of, or is simply associated with the neonatal period as many here are reporting their sons do it when very young and then stop?

[BugMacGee]

Most of our term babies are intact. They spray too.

[mama24-7]

my understanding of elimination communication is that this is about a human not wanting to soil themselves so when a diaper comes off, the child pees b/c they've been holding it for a time. and sometimes it's a coincidence . so i think this would be less about circ/intact than it is the child waiting to pee & feeling the diaper come off as an opportunity.

sus

[WC_hapamama]

My boys have all peed on us... my youngest son, within 5 minutes of birth. They had him on the warming table in the delivery room, and then there was a fountain of baby pee that traveled about 3 feet.

We all had a good laugh about that.

[Fay]

I have 2 intact boys, one sprayer and one non-sprayer.