My Little man's....little Man

I can tell you this... My son had a bit of reattaching and we asked the doctor about it. Our doctor is very laid back and said that it is no big deal. When he gets older and starts to get erections that it will take care of it self. He said that some doctors might want to do a procedure but he saw no reason to do so.

Good luck and don't feel pressured in to a procedure if that is what is suggested. Take some time and think about it. I think as he gets older and grows all will be good.

Good Luck!

i have no advice but thanks for reenforcing my decision not to circumsize my son. i hope your son comes out of this ordeal healthy and happy and that he has no further problems when he is an adult. good luck and my prayers are with your son.

My first son's circumcision was without any complications or maintenance on our part once it healed. My second son's requires maitenance even now that he is 14 months old. His skin continues to seem attatched and our doctor told us to just make sure we push it back all the way once a day so it doesn't attatch and get puss or gunk under it. I was told by our doctor that as he gets older and grows bigger he will out grow this. Until then we need to maintain it by pushing the skin back once a day.

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Hey C.- I am a mom of 4 with my last being the only boy- he is almost 2- when he was circumsized (we are jewish and had a bris with an OB trained as a moyel doing the circ) I noticed our Dr. used a very different technique than my sister's boys Dr. had(they also had brises so I was the godmother and watched the procedure.) My son had much more forrskin than my nephew's after the procedure(as a 1st time mom of a boy I was a little nervous). I checked this site and I read about Dr's using a "california cut" which leaves more forskin- Now that my son is almost 2 there is very little visual difference between my nephews and my son but at age 1 the difference was shocking (he alomost didn't look like he had had a circ. at all.
I did at every diaper change make sure I pulled it back the foreshin- and we joked that he had a "mock turtleneck". Now he looks like all the other little guys.
Good Luck!
Beth

Hi C.,

I'm sorry to hear about the physical pain your son has had to endure and your emotional pain as well.
I have two boys who were both succesfully circumcized.
In my opinion, if the skin reattaches it'll just be like your son wasn't ever circumsized and it'll detach on its own later on in life like it does with other boys who weren't circumcized. I think that as long as he doesn't express any pain or discomfort you could just let it be. Unless, you want to try keeping it detached by lathering it in vaseline like you did when he was an infant. Moisturizing right after bathtime would be ideal since the skin would be more soft and manageable. I hope everything works out for you. Good luck.

Hi, C..

I wish I had some advice for you, but I'm sorry that I don't. Good luck and my prayers/thoughts are with you.

V.

I am hearing about more and more cases about this, online and in person. So sorry your little man (and you) have had to go through so much. I know I read about a cream as well when doing some research about circumcision. www.babycenter.com has a couple bulletin boards regarding this issue. They have one for parents who decided to circ and those who did not and one for debate too. Lots of parents post with their experiences and questions and I know I've read about reattachment issues and the ways those have been dealt with. I'd definitely check it out. I would be really hesitant to have anything surgical done without giving the cream a good try first and if surgery were the only option , go to a pediatric urologist. Good luck.

Yup, it's really common. It's important with circumcized boys to sort of use your thumbs to pull down the skin really quickly once each time while changing the diaper. Not forever, but at first. It'll still sometimes reattach. Then the doctor will essentially do what I just suggested, only much harder, and yeah, that'll hurt the little guy and HIS little guy. But it's OK, C.. Grownup men are very enamored of their penises, but little boys only like theirs as much as little girls like THEIR privates! I know it's scary for you, and I don't mean to make light of it. So really, yes, it's very very common, and very very easily fixed.