Critique my letter to the hospital please!!!!

My DS is 4 1/2 months old and I FINALLY got around to writing a letter to the hospital I delivered at. I need everyone's opinion. Please tell me if I should add anything, change anything, or take anything out. Don't be afraid to tell me if there are grammatical or spelling errors. I want to sound as intelligent as possible. :LOL

To whom it may concern:

I recently gave birth to a beautiful baby boy at X Hospital. Upon being admitted, I was asked a series of questions pertaining to my health care and my upcoming stay. Among those questions, I was asked if I wanted my baby circumcised if it was a boy. I said "no" and the nurse entered my answer into the computer.

After the delivery and after being moved to a post-partum recovery room, I tried to relax with my son. However, my stay was anything but relaxing. You see, whenever there was a shift change, a new doctor would come into my room and ask if I wanted my son circumcised. The first night in the recovery room, at about 10:00 pm, a doctor came in and, since I was asleep, asked my PARENTS if I wanted my baby circumcised. If the doctor had checked my chart, he would have known the answer to that question. What bothers me more though, is that he asked someone other than the mother of the child. What would have happened if my mother mistakenly said, "yes"? I assume the doctor would have woken me to sign a consent form, and being exhausted from labor, I may have unintentionally signed it. If something like that had happened, I would have failed as a mother on my son's first day outside my womb. If my son had been circumcised against my wishes, I would have been absolutely devastated.

The second night, I asked the nurse when I would be discharged the next day. She responded by saying, "Well, he (my son) hasn't had his circumcision, yet, sooo...." My heart skipped a beat. I interuppted her and very strongly said, "He's NOT being circumcised!" She looked at me incredulously and asked "Never!?" "NEVER," was my reply. Because the circumcision rates are close to 50% in America now, I was shocked that this nurse thought it was strange to not circumcise. She was obviously not educated on this subject.

The rest of my stay at your hospital, I was a nervous wreck. Everytime someone took my son from the room, I asked why, exactly, they were taking him and everytime, upon his return, I would check his diaper to make sure his penis was not wrapped in bloody gauze.

I wanted to let you know that I am 110% against circumcision and I was 110% sure that I didn't want my son to be circumcised. Unfortunately, this decision does not come as easily to many parents. I'm afraid that the doctors and nurses at X Hospital are giving the wrong impression to new parents. I've researched circumcision extensively, but sadly, many parents do not research it at all. Some parents talk with their doctors only to find out that, "it's not medically necessary," and base their decision soley on that, all the while, everyone else is telling them to do it because its "cleaner" and "better looking". They don't have the education to respond to pressure accordingly.

My point is, if a new mother has made the decision to leave her son intact, the hospital should not be giving her the impression that she made the wrong choice. The hospital should be 110% supportive of her decision. Routine infant circumcision is not recommended by any health organization. Societal pressure to circumcise our sons still exists strongly in America. In order to change that, we must start with the medical community.

I hope that in the future, X Hospital will take the time to educate it's doctors and nurses about routine infant circumcision so that parents do not feel pressured to sign the consent form.

Sincerely,
Shauna M. X