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I'm a mother of 2 boys who are 13 months apart. Talk about a handful. I'm a wife to the best husband I could have ever dreamed of.I'm one of the very blessed.
I have Bipolar 1 Disorder. I hate taking all these medications and always going to doctors appointments, but life is too short to let mental illness get the better of me.
Often times life is a challenge, and nobody knows that better than me. I wake up wondering if this is going to be a day my illness overpowers my meds, and either sends me flying like a bat out of hell, or leaves me laying on the couch like a wet dish rag.
Thank all that is good in the world that I have an excellent support system at home.
I'm one of the lucky ones.
I'm honest, and that can either be a perk or s flaw. Depends on how you choose to look at it.
I like to see it as a perk, because it's better to hear the truth than to be told candy coated bullshit.
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I don't wish to stir up a lot of controversy but rather to get info and opinion on circumcision. My friend just had a baby and wasn't sure whether to have this procedure performed. She's asking male friends their view.
She doesn't nor do I like the idea of inflicting pain on a child. I've read this operation takes 10-20 minutes and is hard on the infant. However, I've also read that an intact foreskin is hard to clean for a child, there can be cheesy discharge that hardens under the head and that the foreskin can crack or tighten as an adult needing the procedure. I don't know if any of this talk of preventing STDs, AIDS or cancer is true either.
I'm just hoping I can go back to my friend with a better idea of what I feel about it after hearing from people hear especially parents who did and didn't have it done and whether they would do it again based on what their experience was.
My sons and my husband are uncircumcised.
Does it prevent STDs, Aids, Cancer? False.
It is hard for a child to clean? False.
The foreskin doesn't detach from the head of the penis until around 14 years of age. At that time, he will have to pull the foreskin back and wash beneath it when he showers.
My husband has never experienced foreskin cracking or tightening. Neither my husband or my sons (ages 4 and 5) have ever had cheesy discharge that hardens under the head.
As said before, there is no medical reason to circumcise. Most people do it "to look like Daddy"
We didn't choose to not circumcise for that reason, but because we felt it is how their body is meant to be by nature.
(Rating: 4) Thanks for an honest opinion and for sharing the decision you made with your sons. I agree about it being the way nature intended. They decided not to in the end for this and other reasons.