DS is a former preemie and spent his first 3 months in the hospital. He is intact, and since circ wasn't even mentioned until he was pretty close to discharge, I figure the NICU is used to dealing with intact boys. With that said, I have since learned that not all medical professionals know much about intact penises. We weren't there for every diaper change or bath, nor did we know about the dangers of forced retraction at that time, so we never talked about it with the staff. We were there every day, though, and never saw any evidence of problems with that area.
When he was released from the hospital, our first ped told us to retract and clean under the foreskin.
Being new parents who trusted our doctor, we did pull it back a little at diaper changes for a little while. 
We didn't feel like we were forcing it at the time, but it still seemed kinda wrong to me, which led to a lot of research and discovering that it was not good. 
DS has never had any issues with infections or anything else. However, I know he can retract at least somewhat because I've seen him pull it back a little during a diaper change. He's 2 1/2 now and he's been able to do it for a while, which I know is unusual. So I am wondering if either he was forcibly retracted in the hospital, or the partial retraction that we did could have led to it. More importantly, I'm worried about having caused a potential problem in the future....is there anything we need to be on the lookout for?
When he was released from the hospital, our first ped told us to retract and clean under the foreskin.
Being new parents who trusted our doctor, we did pull it back a little at diaper changes for a little while. We didn't feel like we were forcing it at the time, but it still seemed kinda wrong to me, which led to a lot of research and discovering that it was not good. DS has never had any issues with infections or anything else. However, I know he can retract at least somewhat because I've seen him pull it back a little during a diaper change. He's 2 1/2 now and he's been able to do it for a while, which I know is unusual. So I am wondering if either he was forcibly retracted in the hospital, or the partial retraction that we did could have led to it. More importantly, I'm worried about having caused a potential problem in the future....is there anything we need to be on the lookout for?
