Parents who RE-circ

[kldliam]

More common than you think. It's too bad that the medical establishment doesn't like to keep records on this.
Hmmmmm. I wonder why?? :

I personally know of 2 children who were re-tortured. I hear about it online alot and see lots of re-circing stories in the "pro-circ" forums. You would think that the possibility of having to re-circ your child would be a deterent, but on and on it goes.... :

[twins10705]

from what I've read, they never consider the pain and trauma of the child...you hear statements like "he'll thank me for it later." I think the same mindset is what drives a lot of CIO, spanking and shaming parents too. They are trying to force the child to comply with their idea of "normal"...and unfortunately, a lot of people in this country want to see their baby boy with genitals that are similar in form as those of a sexually aroused adult male. This is what they see as normal -- to admit it isn't would be to admit that daddy was mutilated or the previous sons were mutilated etc.

[sandals]

These stories really get to me when I read them because each and every one includes something about how the parents didn't like the way the penis looked. I am sure tehre are those that have a re-circ for other reasons, but, unfortunatly, these are the ones I have seen and every time I feel like crying :

[Monkeyfeet]

: I never even imagined that a poor innocent could be mutilated more than once.

[Yoshua]

2 of Houdini's sons had to be redone according to her doctor, but only 1 was. The next one she didn't want to have redone because of the horror stories she had with the first.



It is all a part of her testimony on how she is Anti-Circ now and what she went through being told it was 'normal' and 'ok'.


Sooooo messed up what a doctor will say needs to be done out of ignorance or arrogance. Either way it is sad.

[Paper-Bag-Princess]

Re-circumcision because people didn't like the way it looked after the first time:

[MommytoB]

Yoshua,
I'm with you on the doctors 'even doctors have predjudice of what they don't think is 'normal' they will change it or talk parents into changing it.

It's kinda like if we could put a speaker phone in the 'room' where doctors could make 'rude jokes of circ or the parents. Possibly both -maybe if they hear doctors 'mocking' and nurses mocking mayby they will have a 'less chance to 'trust'.

[kldliam]

SEE what I mean??!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! These quacks are NUTS!!!!!

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=543024

[talk de jour]

Sick.

[Jillie]

My sister had her ds re circed because it didn't look right. To much skin left on the bottom she said. Poor kid. yuck.

[ared1]

My SIL was going to have her son recirc'd because it didn't look circ'd enough. I explained to her that she didn't need to have it done again. The Dr did it right (not right- I treid to talk her out of it, gave her the Fleiss article and she knows my boys are intact) that Dr's are at least starting to acknowledge that they have no way to know how much foreskin is the right amount to amputate so they are leaving more. at least he will have some hope of not having too tight a circ and the complications that come along with it. It was as if I had never spoke. She said oh, well my insurance doesn't cover circs anymore and I m not paying another $700 to get it redone so he will have to live with it. :