Circumcision After One Year Old

Hey H..
Our son is now 3 1/2yo. We had our son circed at birth. The Dr messed it up and when he would pee it would shoot up at an 85 degree angle. We all know men don't have the best aim anyway but my 3yo would shoot ALL over the bathroom. He had an operation to fix it just 2 weeks ago. The entire operation from when they put him under until when he woke was 22 minutes. The actual operation was 4 minutes!! It hurt for the first 2 times he peed and then he was fine. I imagine to be fully circed would be maybe 10 mnutes with another 20 minutes from going under to recovery room. My guess is full recovery time would be 24-36 hours. Like they always say, it's harder on the Mom than the kid.

Hi,
My son Jackson is 7 months and wass circumcised 3 weeks ago. It was an outpatient procedure and he was put under. He did so well right after that we were home in about 2 hours. He was cranky but slept a lot and was back to himself the next day. The area stayed swollen and looked painful for about a week and now looks great. he had no idea what was going on. Except he couldn't go in his exersaucer or bouncy seat for 2 weeks. That was the hardest on me, he's a big boy. We chose not to have it done at the hospital because of the poor treatment during my deleivery and stay(Johns Hopkins Bayview). They advised us not to keep him in their nursery the first night because they were busy and might not be able to care for him! We used Dr Lakshmanan at Hopkins outpatient Center, he was so nice and he saw us after at the Community Physicians Center in White Marsh, where Jackson's doctor is also. So, don't worry, it is not too bad. It looked worse than it was.

My youngest couldn't have a bris due to health issues. His urologist wanted him circumcised. He waited until my son was 6 months old, then the urologist did it. No problems. He had something close to an epidural for anesthesia. It was an outpatient procedure. By that point they have stitches.

Hi H.,
Just to let you know, I have 4 sons that are now 24 almost 25, 22 almost 23, 17, and 15.... all of whom were circumsized. The youngest developed hyaline membrane disease and pulmonary hypertension with in hours of his birth... I lived in Chambersburg PA at the time and he was sent to the NICU at Hershey Med. Cntr in, duh... Hershey PA. He was treated and 'cured' within two weeks time... He is totally okay except for some ADHD and he is still pretty impulsive...

Now the reason you wrote... because Joshua was so sick and Hershey does not perform the circumsisions... so I had to wait until he was back home. I honestly have to go back and think, but I think it was about a year maybe ten months after he was born... I had to go thru some red tape, but I finally got my OB/ GYN to do it in the ER (don't ask, I have no idea why they had to do it that way... probably running up the bill) I made sure and had Tylenol for him... He was a bit more cranky about it than the other boys were... but no problem. The only thing left is that when he had it done the nurse told me not to put vasoline on him in his diaper after the procedure. I put it on all the other boys because that was what they told me to do. and it bothered Joshua for a bit...so I put it on anyway. It protects the open sore from being hit by the urine... and other contents of the diaper before he can be changed...

good luck and God Bless

My son stayed in the hospital for 2 weeks after he was born. During this time not one person asked me if I wanted the procedure done which was fine until I asked for it to be done and was told NO! Given the fact my son was premature I was ok with this because in his case he was not able to withstand the stress of the situation. However, 1 week later when we went to his first dr. appt. after getting out of the hospital I was once again told no but was not given an answer as to why because he was doing so well. I do not think it is right or fair to tell a parent that its not their decision when the child is healthy enough to go through with the procedure. I went through a very painful emergency c-section so everything that involves my child for at least the next 18 years IS in fact my decision.

I'm wondering why you would want to do this? It's really an un-necessary procedure. I never had my son done, the reasons not to outweighed the reasons to. I would think though that the older they are, the harder on them it would be.

what made you decide to do it now? if there were no medical reason i dont know that i would do it at this age, but i had my son circumcised at birth.. good luck tho!

Hello H.!
I can't tell you from my own personal experience but my sister just had her son done not too long ago. When he was born he had a stroke (he's fine now) so the Dr.'s didn't want to do his circumcision before he left the Hospital. She took him back when he was about 5 1/2 month's old and he went through the proceedure fine. It took a little longer for him to heal but he wasn't even cranky...not even when she changed him. Believe me...she battled back and forth too and she was afraid she was making the wrong decision no matter which way she went. My dad had a talk with her...the same talk he had with me when my son was born. My father who is 63 years old, never had a circumcision when he was a baby. He said that it was very hard for him when he started dating and he realized he was different from other young men. As a grown man he checked into having it done and decided not to. He told me he wished more than anything his mother would of had that taken care of when he was a baby.
My sister is glad she had it done...now that it's over! Talk to your Dr. about it and get all the information you can and hopefully it will make you feel better about whatever you decide.
Enjoy your son...they grow up so fast. Mine is going to be 21 years old next month...that's a scary age!
Take care and remember to take care of you too!

Why are you choosing to have this done now? There are very few medical reasons to have a boy circumcised! My husband and I researched very carefully about the pros and cons and decided that there was no reason to have our son, now 2, circumcised. Even the argument of having him be 'like daddy' was not enough. When he was born, every day in the hospital a nurse (always female)would ask if I wanted it done, and I told them over and over 'No, No, No' but on the last day when the OB (male,and the one who would have had to do it) who was discharging me asked if I wanted it done. I politely said 'No' and his response was 'You're a good woman!'
I don't think many men, if given the choice would want this very sensitive bit of their body cut, I'll never understand why parents feel they have the right to choose this for their sons. Since you've waited this long why not just let him be and if for some reason he decides he wants it done when he's older then it will be his choice, and not yours.

There is absolutely no reason to do it! I had my son circ. but later I researched it more and now I really regret it. That skin is there for a reason. It's not extra! It has a purpose. I would recommend researching it fully. There are many websites (I think one is nocirc.org)