Last night we had to take River to the ER at children's hospital after seeing our ped cause he's had a fever with lethargy being his only other symptom for 6 days (7 days now...). The nurse who came in to assist our nurse with his catheter asked if I was regularly retracting his foreskin in the bath every day so it doesn't become too tight. Obviously I looked at her like she has 2 heads...then later she actually tried to forceably retract him and then tell me I needed to work on it more, every single night, cause if he isn't fully retractable by 18 months he would have to be circumcised... I then asked "are you aware the AAP does not agree with retraction?" and she actually said "yes, but they only say that cause so many parents were doing it wrong" then she asked if our ped knew we aren't doing it every night and I told her that she also tells us to leave it alone and she started talking about how wrong she is and how she explains that to parents when they then need to circumcise. I explained our ped is from germany and that was it she said "ohh, that explains it" then rolled her eyes. Then told me a story of another patient who I guess their reaction was "ohh, we didn't know that, if someone had told us we'd have been doing it all along" which is the one thing that actually bothered me about the experience...this nurse actually managed to talk a parent into regular forceable retraction.
I'm just venting. My dh has already printed out a plethora of medical articles and wrote a note to a bunch of people at the hospital and included the articles with the note that he mailed to them, and I talked to the patient liaison and both our resident and attending physicians about it last night, and I'll be talking to our ped about it as soon as she returns from her vacation.
I'm just venting. My dh has already printed out a plethora of medical articles and wrote a note to a bunch of people at the hospital and included the articles with the note that he mailed to them, and I talked to the patient liaison and both our resident and attending physicians about it last night, and I'll be talking to our ped about it as soon as she returns from her vacation.
sounds just like the one I met in the mother baby ward at my hospital when I had my 1 yr old. I told her where to go since she wanted to argue 
