I didn't vote b/c I'm not sure who's decision it really was. I never really thought much about circumcision until I was pregnant and found out it was *probably* a boy. For somewhat religious reasons, I was ok with it, but I didn't really want to do it. The main issue was "who is going to do it?" We had our ds at home, and isn't vaxed, so didn't know how docs handled it, and our midwives weren't helpful. And any book I'd read would say it basically didn't matter either way--whatever the parents thought was right. No mention of risks or anything. Given, I didn't seek out anti-circ lit, but still...
Anyway, I went to meet with the ped and he told me all about circ. and drew pics and all, and it looked like torcher! I didn't want my baby boy to go through that, even though he'd be numbed up. But my dh was unphased when I told him about it.
So long story short, I cried the night before the procedure and MIL comforted me saying it was the right thing to do... It went really well--ds slept through it! And dh was in the room with him. But I sobbed the first time I saw it and couldn't change his diaper for the rest of the day. MIL couldn't understand why I thought it was so unnatural. She asked me where I got that idea from!!
Well, I still regret the decision, and since the postpartum hormones are way gone, I feel calmer about it. I am pretty at peace with it--I won't blame myself for the rest of my life. I'm pregnant again, so I don't know what will happen. I pray I can convince my dh not to do it. He even mentioned the other day that he hopes it's a girl so we don't have to circ--Well, we don't *have* to!
I wish I would have stood my ground more and been more educated about it. But it's the past, and I can't change it! He's a happy, healthy boy, inspite of being circ'ed!
Anyway, I went to meet with the ped and he told me all about circ. and drew pics and all, and it looked like torcher! I didn't want my baby boy to go through that, even though he'd be numbed up. But my dh was unphased when I told him about it.
So long story short, I cried the night before the procedure and MIL comforted me saying it was the right thing to do... It went really well--ds slept through it! And dh was in the room with him. But I sobbed the first time I saw it and couldn't change his diaper for the rest of the day. MIL couldn't understand why I thought it was so unnatural. She asked me where I got that idea from!!
Well, I still regret the decision, and since the postpartum hormones are way gone, I feel calmer about it. I am pretty at peace with it--I won't blame myself for the rest of my life. I'm pregnant again, so I don't know what will happen. I pray I can convince my dh not to do it. He even mentioned the other day that he hopes it's a girl so we don't have to circ--Well, we don't *have* to!
I wish I would have stood my ground more and been more educated about it. But it's the past, and I can't change it! He's a happy, healthy boy, inspite of being circ'ed!
:. And then there was the brilliant office full of nurses I worked with who all told me that I should go ahead and "get it done" so I wouldn't have to deal with the inconvenience of retracting ds' foreskin every diaper change 
. (These were the same ladies who told me that I must have an epidural as there was just no way to make it through labor without it - though most of them had never even experienced childbirth as they had their children in the "knock 'em out and wake 'em up when it's over" days. Sorry.... rant over 
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Number two was a boy, and by that point he had run out of arguments. Now, our best friends just had a boy, and thanks to us, they are as anti-circ as I am! They were originally planning on it, but during a party I went to change my son's diaper and invited everyone in to view the "perfect penis"
I gave a lesson on the history of circ., the pain and trauma it entailed, etc. etc... everyone at the party was sold. Geez, if only anti-circ. parties were as popular as Mary Kay and tupperware....
