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>neonatal cirucmcision? > >Greetings from L.A. >My husband is European and was circumcised in Austria >at age >5 years due to the foreskin tightening and restricting >urine flow. >He has very bad memories of the procedure and hospital >stay. He >has experienced sensitivity of the glans since that >surgery. >In order to avoid a similar experience for our sons, >would it be wise >to plan to circumcise at birth? Thank you for your >feedback. > > >I really feel any routine cut is inappropriate in the >modern world, an appropriate modern initiation is >surely to do with self experiment and exploration and >education. > >there are a number of individual variations of >different problems which can occur, maybe around a 15% >chance of problems before adulthood .and most of these >can be easily checked for in advance, (and most >problems can be cured without a full circumcision) >.... also your child must get a bit of basic education >on foreskin cleanliness etc. > >... your man was one of those who needed the >operation, (ie. with phimosis) ... but a partial circ. >would have been adequate - leaving some cover for the >hyper sensitive glans after the operation - partial >circ. is as good an all-cure as full circumcision if >not better. > >can I advise >http://www.male-initiation.net/checking.html >for how to check simply, and >http://www.male-initiation.net/natures_way.html >as an optimal start on how to care for an infants >foreskin ...it was written by a mother of two ... > >Parents have so much to look after and learn about >with new borns and taking them to all sorts of medical >checks all the time ... it could easily appear as the >simplest thing to get him circ'd ... but even if he is >circ`d you will need to check him in the following >days and weeks for skin-bridges ... There`s no >intelligent way around the modern medical approach of >early checking > >Cheerio >Robin

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