a little survey - circumcision?

[Sadie]

Without being biased or judgmental or anything else one reading this might assume... I was hoping to get an informal survey of people to post whether or not they circumcised their sons (without giving reasons for or against doing so). I am just curious! And, to be the first, I did not.

UPDATE - I was hoping for just some yes or no answers... I just checked this discussion after not reading it for a while. Seems to have gotten a little heated and/or weird. So, I am closing it. Thanks for the responses!

[Pilar Ash]

Yes we did.

[Kathleen]

Didn't x2 :)

[Kim]

Shame sorry to hear this how old is your son? Must say my son cried while it was being done but after that he was fine. Hope everything gets better!

[Jim]

no we did not circumcise our son

[Zicea Becks]

Wow...I didn't know people were so sensitive to the idea until this forum...I mean it's not like I ever asked another mom about her son's penis (I never cared what other people did with their kids) and how it made her feel.

When Denim was born, he was circumcised. Why? Because all the male children I knew of had been circumcised. Every man I slept with was circumcised. So, it was just something that I thought you do...

I know that some people don't do it....and that's their business.

[Hugh7]

The question is not how another mom's son's penis makes her feel. The question is how it makes a man feel to learn that his mother had the most sensitive part of his penis cut off because all the male children she knew of had been circumcised, every man she slept with was circumcised, so, it was just something that she thought you do...

Most people in the world don't do it. It's his business.

[Reed's Mama]

Didn't do it, wouldn't do it.

[Kristin]

Hmm.. Cutting my son's genitalia for no medical reason.. No thanks!

[momolly]

I did not- and neither my husband nor my husband's father were circumcised.
My mother in law is a L&D nurse, and over her 30 year career she has seen a handful of botched circumcisions- at least one instance where the baby's penis was actually severed. Though it doesn't happen a lot, to me that's enough of a reason to leave the baby's body as nature made it.

[lucy's mom rocks.]

we did not circumcise our son...i am jewish though....my husband isn't..we didn't want to expose our newborn to more infections (than we actually had to) like MRSA that are abundant in hospitals these days...any type of incision or cut freaks me out in a place where antibiotics have become pretty much worthless against some of these strains......I am very glad our second child was a boy because I would have felt more pressured too with the first one because I had no idea what I was doing when I had my daughter the year before.

[Anne]

My newborn son developed a MRSA infection under his fingernail at the hospital. We had to go back and have it surgically drained then two weeks of antibiotics. I agree with you. Why give infections another avenue to invade their little bodies?

[lamees Serry]

My son is now 14months and we circumcised him when he was 2days old! I guess everyone is different:)