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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>InDaPhunk</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/7981349"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">Yes, drs will want to retract your son's foreskin. I have no idea why but they can't seem to help themselves. Maybe they're looking for a pot of gold under there, I dunno, but they can't seem to resist <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/irked.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="irked">:.<br><br>
Make it easy on yourself... tell the dr that you'd prefer that he/she didn't touch DS's penis <b>at all</b>. Many drs. seem to have a different definition of "retract" than Webster's dictionary and they think that pulling it back "<i>just a little</i>" isn't the same thing as retraction.<br><br>
If the dr starts spouting some crap like "I have to visualize the urethra to see if there's any hypospadias" tell them that as long as DS is urinating normally there's no reason to see the urethra and any hypospadias severe enough to warrant immediate attention would probably be evident without retraction and so any mild hypospadias present is cosmetic and therefore not worth worrying about so there's no reason to even take a peek.<br><br>
If you absolve them of the resposibility of telling you that DS might have some mild hypospadias then you take away the possibility that you'll sue them down the road for not telling you about it- which is probably all they're worried about anyway- then they should be fine not looking under there.<br><br>
Who cares if you look like a total freak. Get that worry out of your head. You're not a freak, you're a mom protecting her son from the ignorant american medical establishment. GL!</div>
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I was just running a search for hypospadias because my 1 month old has a mild case. We've been to a urologist who said there's no point to doing anything. It's super obvious because it looks like he's pseudo circed and what he has for foreskin retracts freely with simple wiping. If you look closely the opening is not exactly in the usual place. I imagine that if a boy would need to be manually retracted to see if there was hypospadias, it would be EVEN MILDER than our case and therefore absolutely unnecessary.
