Mums with circumcised boys

[WaitTillFebruary]

Hi,
I'm due in the second week of February and am expecting a baby boy. This will be our second boy and my husband and I have decided to have him circumcised as soon as possible after he is born.
We have gathered that circumcision is not available in the NHS unless for medical reasons. This leaves us going down the private route, which is a path we are unfamiliar with.
Does anyone have any advice as to where one can go (preferably in London) to have one's newborn baby boy circumcised privately?

So is the removal of the clitoral hood comparable then strictly? Or is that not mutilation either?

When you start making ridiculous arguments like that you're on very shaky ground. Mutilation isn't to do with the size of the body part.

Yes - at home, without anaesthetic, just the way a baby should be mutilated.

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If believing that babies shouldn't be permanently mutilated so their parents can appease an angry sky god makes me "a rabid anti circumcision fanatic" then I guess I am.

And I come from a family where all the men are circumcised and happy to be so.

It's medieval and should be illegal (though much good that's done to stop FGM)

Oh well, shaky grounds maybe, but I am very unconvinced with the argument that cutting someone's arm, leg, clitoris, little finger, toes, ear, is to be viewed as the same as removal of foreskin. I don't think it should be done for non-medical reasons, in my opinion, but I would never use the emotionally charged terms that you are using here. I think that your argument and emotions are not constructive at all.

Why? Why is the removal of foreskin different to cutting someone's clitoris, finger, toes ear..? Why? Especially the clitoral hood because it's the same tissues, in the same area.

It's different in your mind because you want it to be. Because you don't want to think you're mutilating your child.

Don't do it, I once got off with a bloke who had it done, didn't know what to do with it, have you ever tried wanking off a bloke with no foreskin? It's urm different, think of his future!!

Strictlyison how big a part does it have to be before it counts? Where do you stand on FGM?

Cross posted, but how do you justify one and not the other?

In fairness mrwilly I don't really think a parent wants to think of their unborn child being wanked off...

That said I wouldn't want to think of mine having his penis cut into either.

There is a clinic that does it for religious, health or other reasons. It has been proved done properly, to help keep the boy clean from infections and good for other medical reasons. My son had it done at about 2 years old, they give medication and he was walking and happy next day. It cost £200, cost of operation, painkillers and hospital stay. Older son had it done later and had quite a few urine infections and problems before the circumcision.I believe it is a good thing. The highest price is £270 I found.

I am very unconvinced with the argument that cutting someone's arm, leg, clitoris, little finger, toes, ear, is to be viewed as the same as removal of foreskin

Can you explain what the difderence is between removing a foreskin and a clitoris/arm/leg/ear/toe?

Watching with interest to see how the non-medical removal of foreskin can be justified

Wow. Know nothing about this but just googled and found a lovely US site which suggested that anaesthetic wasn't really necessary and a pacifier dipped in sugar water helped with the pain. Am glad I'll be letting my son keep all his knob. Mind you I suppose I am struggling to cut his hair.

Yep. Wine is also used - some kind of special, religious wine which stops the pain, if you are easily fooled.

Of course Malificent. How could I have forgotten?

anaesthetic wasn't really necessary

You can just see the priest saying "I cut loads of babies and I never felt a thing"

It was probably just coincidence that the babies cried at the point they were being mutilated without proper anaesthetic. Babies cry all the time, after all.

those were actually some of the reasons my BIL gave to my sister when he wanted their son circumcised

You are fucking kidding??

Azquilith just for interest, I work in a special care baby unit and we do give a sugar solution (sucrose) for pain relief, and it really works when the babies are having painful procedures such as blood taking, lumbar punctures etc.

But not amputation, right, slippery? It's not that good for pain relief, is it?