Baby-Related Post
Oct. 28th, 2005 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lls_mutantOkay, this one is for the moms of boys and the all of two or three gentlemen who read this. The rest of you really, really, REALLY might want to skip this one. (Although if you have a thought, please feel free to share.)
And for those of you that are randomly reading this journal, I'm asking because we're having a baby boy and he's due in less than a month and hubby and I really need to decide this issue, not for any perverted reason.
Circumcision. We're clueless, especially since we both kind of feel like this is a very personal decision to the one person who doesn't get any say. I've decided to let hubby have the last word on it regardless, but does anyone have any thoughts, feelings, or facts about the matter? It doesn't seem like it's as crucial these days, and we aren't Jewish, so there's no religious implications or anything.
I know it's just one of those topics you don't discuss, and if anyone would prefer to comment anonymously please do so, but it's because people don't discuss it that we're completley clueless. Help?
ETA: After reading some stuff on the web, I am very, very, very quickly leaning further and further away from it. (Partly because I still think it's his body and he should have the choice to do what he will, and it doesn't seem like there's any medical basis for doing it.) But I'm still very interested in any thoughts in general.
And for those of you that are randomly reading this journal, I'm asking because we're having a baby boy and he's due in less than a month and hubby and I really need to decide this issue, not for any perverted reason.
Circumcision. We're clueless, especially since we both kind of feel like this is a very personal decision to the one person who doesn't get any say. I've decided to let hubby have the last word on it regardless, but does anyone have any thoughts, feelings, or facts about the matter? It doesn't seem like it's as crucial these days, and we aren't Jewish, so there's no religious implications or anything.
I know it's just one of those topics you don't discuss, and if anyone would prefer to comment anonymously please do so, but it's because people don't discuss it that we're completley clueless. Help?
ETA: After reading some stuff on the web, I am very, very, very quickly leaning further and further away from it. (Partly because I still think it's his body and he should have the choice to do what he will, and it doesn't seem like there's any medical basis for doing it.) But I'm still very interested in any thoughts in general.
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Date: 2005-10-31 03:59 pm (UTC)I think we're going to go without. We talked to the doctor on Friday and she said there's no medical benefit whatsoever, and it's slowly becoming less common in the US. I'm not too into the social benefit, because for all that people use the "looking like his friends" thing, by the time he will actually be naked in locker rooms, he will be much older and able to understand exactly why we did this. (And come up with some pretty nasty retorts about other guys looking at his penis, I'm sure. Heh.) So I think we're headed European, just because it doesn't seem that necessary.
Thanks!