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Did you have your son circumcised or is he still intact?

We had our twin boys both circumcised after they were born. Well they were in the NICU for three weeks so they waited till right before they were released to come home.

like 3keys, we had our twin boys circumsized at the hospital. i had them in the evening and they had it done the next morning. i actually never even saw them, pre-circumcision.

thanks for responding ladies. i was hoping to find someone who like me, left their son intact, beause i have a question about my son's "parts". i'll probably just call his ped.i know we are the minority when it come to this!

We circumcised our son for several reasons, which I could go into if anyone wants to discuss it. My father was not circumcised and he had severe problems with chronic infections that were transmitted to my mother. He practiced excellent hygiene, he was never intimated with any woman other than my mother, and there is no way that his problems were his fault. (I have had numerous anti-circumcision friends insist that my dad must not have had very good hygiene and/or carried an STD and I know that that those assumptions were not true.) So the family history alone would have been reason enough to circumcise him at birth.

We did, but if we have another will definitely not be doing so. We both wish more thought had gone into that decision and my husband feels guilt everyday that our son did not have a choice in the matter. (He feels the same way about piercing baby girls ears!) Wish I could help you out, but hey, in the future if I have another boy maybe you can be the one helping me

I have a friend that had a boyfriend in college that wasn't. He, at 25, got circumcised because of all the infections and problems he went through because of not being circumcised.

We had our son circumcised when he was born.They took him for a very short time and came back with a sleeping baby.The nurse said he really didn't cry at all.FrugGail those are all the reasons we had it done.

I do not like the term "intact." To me it seems like a slur or insult.

People choose circumcision for many reasons. For some it is a religious mandate. For others it is for medical reasons. For others it is a cultural, familial, or personal preference. I wouldn't say to someone who had their daughter's ears pierced that my daughter is "still intact."

Just my opinion.

In my experience, boys (or sometimes men, later in life) seem to have many issues when not being circumsized as babies. I'm from Germany originally and no one over in Europe circumsizes their boys, unless for religious reasons. Many of my little (male) cousins and my friends' boys have had issues and had to have a circumcision down the road due to re-occuring infections or because the foreskin did not grow and the poor littlies were in a lot of pain (sorry, TMI probably). Of course, every child is different and your son may not ever have any issues with this - it's all a personal choice. Just wanted to tell you what I've heard/experienced on this issue :)