Here's one for the baby book ;)

[My2Matthews]

My little guy has started becoming retractable! He just turned 26 months and he discovered this great trick yesterday. I don't know how far it can go back, but he pulls it back about 1/3 of the way. He has even shown his grandma, he is so proud!

I posted not too long ago, worried because his foreskin looked like the "phimosis" boy on that web site... but I guess he is normal, after all!

[Shaunam]

I can't wait to be able to record it in the baby book. I write EVERYTHING down because I'm afraid I won't remember it later. And retraction is kind of important one. I want my DS to be able to look back at his baby book and see that he did this and that at X age, and be able to kind of compare his kids' milestones. A lot of things are somewhat determined by genetics, like teething, and physical milestones. I wonder if age of retraction has anything to do with genetics?

I think it's neat knowing that I got my first tooth at 4 months, just like DS. And knowing that DS might lose his red hair at around age 3, like DH did. I'm a little sad about that, though. I hope it stays red.

I wish I could compare DH's age of retraction with DS's to see if it's similar, but sadly, cannot.

[Kathryn]

Awesome! It's amazing that the body does things at so many different ages and it's all normal.

[My2Matthews]

I wonder if age of retraction has anything to do with genetics?

I guess I'll never know, either. Thanks, MIL/FIL. :

[DahliaRW]

Originally Posted by My2Matthews

I guess I'll never know, either. Thanks, MIL/FIL. :

Hopefully someday you'll be able to compare the age your son became retractable with your many many intact grandsons.

[Peppermint]

My just turned 2 year old suprised me a few weeks ago when he retracted himself, I didn't expect it for a couple of years, and he is thrilled with his discovery . I probably won't put it in the baby book, as I do pictures with everything in the baby books . Very exciting stuff for our little guys though .

[amanda w]

When my DS discivered that he was able to retract, he wanted to show everyone who visited or came into contact with him. I had to explain that this was something to be very proud of but not to be shared with the world..but I guess he is part exhibitionist as he still 'shows it off', lol.

[spero]

Wanna know what's in my baby book (circa 1965)?

A bill for circumcision :

I think my parents contested that one.

[hummingbear]

Originally Posted by Shaunam

I wonder if age of retraction has anything to do with genetics?

I have wondered this too. I have also wondered if the retraction is affected by how long a boy nurses.

[Lizzardbits]

too cute!

[My2Matthews]

I have also wondered if the retraction is affected by how long a boy nurses.

How so? You've got me curious!

[Frankly Speaking]

Originally Posted by skellbelle

A bill for circumcision :

I think my parents contested that one.

Ummmm . . . . They were still performing infant female circumcisions in America well into the 1970's. This was at the time they were doing circumcisions without parental consent and often against the parent's wishes. Are you absolutely certain you were not circumcised?



Frank

[spero]

Originally Posted by Frankly Speaking

Ummmm . . . . They were still performing infant female circumcisions in America well into the 1970's. This was at the time they were doing circumcisions without parental consent and often against the parent's wishes. Are you absolutely certain you were not circumcised?



Frank

: REALLY? Honestly, I had no idea that infant female circ was routine in the US - do you have links?

And yes - I'm certain I'm not circ'd.

[Frankly Speaking]

You can go to www.cirp.org and search for "history" and get all of the sordid details. Many of the women who were circumcised do not realize it because the female genitalia are not obvious like male genitalia are and back in the day, there wasn't the type of pornography that we have today showing the vulva spread open in full view. Those women had no idea they were different than the other women they knew. The practice was something of the first quarter of the last century and was never practiced in the numbers that male circumcision was practiced even at that time but it did happen to a substantial number of girls. Today we recoil in horror at the thought of it and it won't be long that we will recoil in horror at male circumcision as it is practiced today. I was just thinking about it yesterday that in as little as 15 or 20 years, male circumcision will be mostly dead and a lot of young men are going to be presenting their parents with some difficult questions. What would you be asking your parents if you discovered they had cut part of your genitals off shortly after you were born? Some of the women that were circumcised as babies are still alive today. I wonder what they think when they hear all the furror over female circumcision in Africa and that America and most of the industrialized world has outlawed it. I remember a woman who posted on one of the parenting boards that her grandmother was circumcised. It was a closely guarded family secret and the grandmother would only acknowledge she had been circumcised but absolutely refused to discuss it at all.




Frank

[hummingbear]

Originally Posted by My2Matthews

How so? You've got me curious!

I am not certain here about anything. But I have wondered how the mother's and childs bodies are influenced by each other. What affect does the mother's hormones have on her nursing child? Any?