what are you supposed to do with foreskins??

[kitbit]

sorry if I'm being thick, but in the country in which we live the current practise is to tell mums to pull back babies' foreskins to clean them, while in the bath. I thought you weren't meant to do this?? Our paediatrician said if we don't then ds may find his doesn't retract properly and is more likely to have to be circumcised later on.

eek!

Does anyone have any info on this or know what you're supposed to do? What's the current practise in britain?

I don't have a boy but friends do. I thought foreskins were self cleaning, and you weren't supposed to pull it back.

Hi - my ds has been under a paediatric urologist for a few years due to foreskin problems. This doc who is a national expert has told ds to gently stretch back the foreskin himself with a bit of cotton wool in the bath but not - repeat not - for me to have done this before ds was capable age-wise of having a 'play' on his own. If babies were born with something that didn't work on its own naturally without interference by parents the human race would not have got very far!

I have a boy and I'd never dream of pulling his foreskin back!!!!!!!!
I would let it be!!

Leave well alone until they discover it goes back on their own or hurts when they try to.

absolutely leave it alone. They retract naturally when boys are old enough to tug it about a bit and investigate. We did nothing to ds', and wouldn't dream of it.

God I'm glad someone has the balls to put these questions out there. I have a 12 wk old boy and have been wondering the same. Good to know leaving well alone is the answer.

nothing, leave it be.

thanks everyone, it's nice to be armed with some facts for the next conversation with the paed! also good to know that nature will take care of it (duh, of COURSE it will, what was I thinking??!)

x

I saute mine in garlic and butter for about five minutes - lovely as a side dish with chicken etc.

DS is 2.11 and has just started to be able to pull his foreskin back, which is a hugely interesting experience for him . I encourage him to give it a bit of swish about in the bath but that's it!

morningpaper

ew!

that's worthy of your newsletter mp

mp....AAARGGH!!!

Although the chicken idea surprises me slightly, I would have thought it would be a dish best served solo as a starter...?

Actually it was the word "mine" that disturbed me the most...

pmsl @ MP

set it in a paperweight and give it to your son's wife on their wedding day

that's what my MIL did

not joking

[jaw hanging]

Bloody Abel and Cole - you just never know what you are going to get once you've washed the dirt off

Last week it was CELERIAC ffs

kitbit you are right, they would be best as a sort of meze

Ha ha MP that reminds me of a restauarnt review I once read by Will Self about a place where one of the dishes was called "Wings, rings, skins and things". Foreskins were mentioned...

I'm sure I've spotted something similar on a menu in one of those clever ice cream stalls in the Borough market... rose and cardamom, lavender and chocolate, celeriac and foreskin...

MP you are my kindred
I was going to say saute as well... first instinct