Buried Penis, Tight Foreskin and Circumcision

[sherby]

Hello All

I could really do with some advice here or if anybody has any experience of this I would love to hear from you.

Basically DS is nearly 6 mths old and since he was born every GP/HV who has happened to see his penis has commented on the size or lack of . You can only really see about 2mm or foreskin and the rest of his penis is buried in the fat pad. When he had his 6 week check the GP noted it and said to come back in a few months to check on it. Well I went back today and she said he definitely has buried penis and also a very tight foreskin.

I thought she would send us to the uroligist to get it checked but she wanted to send us to the general surgery team for a circumcision.

Firstly the whole idea of a circumcision is just nooooo for me. I'm not really sure why since I don't know much about it but it just seems wrong IYKWIM, plus I have read over and over that buried penis is mostly caused by circumcision in the first place so I can't see how this will help and not just make things worse. Has anybody else got experience of buried penis with their DS? I know in the grand scheme of things it is not a horrible thing to have wrong and it is only cosmetic but we all know that penises have a huge psychological effect on men and I can't help thinking that it may effect his self esteem or cause bullyiing at school.

And plus I thought all children had tight foreskin at this age?

The same.

Ds's tight part is just over the tip; the exit looks really small. The consultant said because of this, have the operation but actually with the retraction exercises and just getting older I suppose, it starting to look bigger. We can see the difference because there's no ballooning anymore when he wees!

Sparkly - at 10 they do not expect foreskin to retract

we took ds to urologist at 11 and they said bring back at 14
at 14 they said bring back at 16

at 15 we took him back and said it was cauing him 'trouble'
somewhat reluctantly but very successfully they operated at 15.5

hth

Hi @sherbyI know this thread is really old but I just wondered the outcome. I have a 15month old that has a buried/hidden penis and it’s really getting me down as I can’t stop worrying about him getting teased etc and it making him miserable. What happened with your little boy?