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post #1 of 20
3/30/04 at 6:09pm
Thread Starter 
Actually, it was What to Expect the First Year

p. 18 (emphasis mine)
" There is believed to be some pain connected with circumcision, though it is probably of short duration. (Pain can be minimized by use of a padded restraint chair....and/or a sugar-coated pacifier)"



Hmmm, wonder were that belief originated? What could be the connection? And How the *@#&% is a padded restraint and a binky supposed to make you not feel your penis being ripped apart?
post #2 of 20
3/30/04 at 9:28pm
Oh, I can't stand those books! I ended up with 3 copies during my first pregnancy, none of which I bought. If I didn't have a deep-seated aversion to the idea, I would have burnt them in the woodstove. As it was, I think I threw them out or put them in the recycling or something like that. I didn't even want to donate them or sell them to a used bookstore.
post #3 of 20
3/31/04 at 12:29am


Holy crap.

And here all the circumcisers are telling us that the babies only cry because they're strapped down.

: So, which is it, guys?
post #4 of 20
3/31/04 at 12:35am
Sugar on a binky? That's a good idea.:
post #5 of 20
3/31/04 at 12:45am
when i'm having surgery i know the first thing i reach for is a lolly. (a demerol lolly.) how asinine. i knew i hated those books.

suse
post #6 of 20
3/31/04 at 3:11pm
On a circ *support* board I lurk on, one of the pro-circ moms recently actually posted the sugar-dummy idea as a great idea. Thought she was sharing good info, and helping out the little ones undergoing the amputations their parents insist on !
post #7 of 20
3/31/04 at 4:22pm
I don't think I would have the stomach to lurk on a circ support board...just reading the anti-circ stuff makes me way more than is good for my mental health!
post #8 of 20
3/31/04 at 9:17pm
When I took my childbirth class, it pissed me off beyond belief when the instructor talked about circumcision and said, "Yeah, it hurts, but they mostly cry because they are strapped out of their fetal position." : A "fact" pulled completely out of her own butt. :
post #9 of 20
4/2/04 at 1:08am
Maybe the woman who wrote that book (which I hate btw!) will be ok with getting circumcised if we give her a padded circumstraint and a sugar coated pacifier. This kind of stuff irks me to no end!
post #10 of 20
4/2/04 at 1:41pm
Quirky, HELP ME STOP!!!
I can't control it, it's just like driving by a car accident!

PLEASE HELP ME!!!

I can honestly say that it's the least intelligent group of parents I've ever seen (at least online.)

I really like the idea of strapping the instructor down...:LOL
post #11 of 20
4/2/04 at 2:53pm
copslass- pm me the link, I am feeling masochistic today


As for the rest of the thread
post #12 of 20
4/2/04 at 4:58pm
QUOTE:
"(Pain can be minimized by use of a padded restraint chair....)"

Being put in restraints makes people feel better!
Their butt might hurt from a restraint that isn't padded, but their penis doesn't hurt for anything.

Imagine a rapist telling the court he cut a woman's clit and other little flaps of skin, she may have had slight welts from the ropes he tied her with, but he made sure to put a pillow under her butt so she wouldn't hurt.



Anybody hear about the man who legally changed his name to Baby Boy because, when his "name" still was Baby Boy, he officially "consented" via his parents to penile reduction surgery.?
post #13 of 20
4/4/04 at 5:47am
Those books are ridiculous! Sugar coated binky???? Ya, that outta work. If I ever need anything cut off I will tell them to hold the meds and just give me a sucker.
post #14 of 20
4/5/04 at 10:21pm
I hated those books entirely. Not just because of the bad circ info, but, everything else in there was so biased and full of bull honky.

Megan
post #15 of 20
4/5/04 at 10:50pm
post #16 of 20
4/6/04 at 12:46am
that was the first preperation book I read. I will never suggest it for another. The circ' section alone is disgusting enough
post #17 of 20
4/6/04 at 12:58am
Thread Starter 
Yeah, the books left me feeling like the authors were just interested in giving the most POPULAR answer as opposed to the most informed or intelligent answer so that they could sell the maximum number of books. Their approach to co-sleeping and EBF was ignorant, but the circ blurb was the only thing that made me throughly livid.
post #18 of 20
4/11/04 at 8:41pm
thats a HORRID series of books!! I bought the pregnancy one, the first year, and toddler years, and it was the biggest waste of money ever.
They put in personal opinion rather than FACT! Crappy books!
post #19 of 20
4/12/04 at 12:00am
Yep, and they advocate the "you MUST wean at 1 year" argument. My copy went into the recycling bin!
post #20 of 20
4/12/04 at 1:29am
stupid...stupid...stupid...


Dh just said, "ahh yes sir, today for your surgery we will be using a padded restraint chair instead of anesthesia today. We feel it is just as effective..."

?Where do intelligent people get their logic?

stupid...stupid...stupid...
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