Very impressed with my hospital!

[PrettyBird]

I will be having my baby at a military hospital (National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD) and I expected it to be overwhelmingly mainstream. However, at my orientation they stated that they no longer recommended routine circumcision! Of course they will still do it, but I think it is a great step. Now I don't have to worry about getting pressured by nurses/doctors to circ. My sister said that was definitely not the case at the hospital where she had her son.

[Quirky]

Oh, that's great news! I live very close to there in Bethesda. I'm across from NIH on the other side of Old Georgetown Rd.

(But you should have a homebirth! You know Tricare covers them, right?)

[2lilsweetfoxes]

Originally Posted by Quirky

Oh, that's great news! I live very close to there in Bethesda. I'm across from NIH on the other side of Old Georgetown Rd.

(But you should have a homebirth! You know Tricare covers them, right?)

But, if she lives in military housing, she should check the post commander's policy letters. Several posts I've been at have actually do have policies FORBIDDING PLANNED HOMEBIRTHS in housing due to fear of liability. Guess there's always "oops, didn't make it", but if you have a midwife, well, they can guess it wasn't an "oops" homebirth. And tricare may only cover it if homebirth is expressly legal in the state. So, check on that.

But on the circ issue, I'm glad more military hospitals are getting it!!! Maybe we should work on getting Tricare to completely quit covering it. (Then we will see a spate of 1-year-olds with "phismosis" who "need" to be circumcised.)

[Lizzardbits]

YAY! one less battle to fight....i know..bad pun...But still it is great news that they nolonger recommend RIC

[DahliaRW]

Originally Posted by 2lilsweetfoxes

But on the circ issue, I'm glad more military hospitals are getting it!!! Maybe we should work on getting Tricare to completely quit covering it. (Then we will see a spate of 1-year-olds with "phismosis" who "need" to be circumcised.)

We need all insurances to stop covering it, IMO. People would still do it, but most would think twice before forking over the money and I bet a lot wouldn't.

I am not pro circ for any reason at all except the RARE legit medical ones, but I have to say, the benefit of "1-year-olds with "phismosis"" "having" to be circ'd is that at least they'd have proper anasthesia and pain relief afterwards (in theory), unlike a newborn who is the victim of RIC. NOT that it makes it right at all or that they should be circ'd, but just my thought on that.

[liseux]

That is awesome news!! I was just at Dewitt Hospital (army hospital in Northern Va) in October when I overheard a military dr tell a tour of pregnant people that the foreskin was just a "useless flap of skin", so this makes me feel much better.

It was a military doctor who backed up my mom in 1983 when she didn`t want to circ my brother.