My Promise: After Twins' Circumcision Complications, Mom Shares Truth

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My Promise: After Twins' Circumcision Complications, Mom Shares Truth

I’ll never know exactly what happened in the nursery that day. I thought that my little boys were sleeping when they came back. Now I know that they were in shock from the horrible pain I put them through. The nurse came in to show me what to look for in circumcision aftercare. The gauze was stuck to one of the boys’ bloodied penises. She pulled it off, hard, and my son started screaming. Over his cries, she shouted the aftercare instructions.

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ONE MOM'S LETTER To The Doctor Who Cut Her Son

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ONE MOM'S LETTER To The Doctor Who Cut Her Son

I am writing to you on behalf of my 3-year-old son. He has always been a blessing to my husband and me. Since the day we found out he was coming, we were ecstatic to be welcoming another addition to our family. He was born PERFECT on Aug. 19, 2012. The reason I am writing to you is because on Aug. 20, my perfect baby boy was taken from my hospital room, strapped down, and mutilated surgically for NO REASON at all other than the pure ignorance of our society. I was misinformed on the “benefits” of circumcision and was not fully informed of the risks of this unnecessary procedure.

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THIS IS GENITAL MUTILATION

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THIS IS GENITAL MUTILATION

You took too much. You didn't leave me with enough skin to cover my penile shaft. The result was that my earliest memories of experiencing erections as a child are memories of severe, prolonged pain. By the time I reached adolescence, the lack of skin caused my penis to develop a sharp bend, which I would later find would make intercourse very difficult. At some point my scrotal and pubic skin compensated for the lack of penile shaft skin. The result is that I now grow thick pubic hair all the way up to the scar you left me.

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Meatal Stenosis is a Circumcision Complication. Were You Told?

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Meatal Stenosis is a Circumcision Complication. Were You Told?

Does your child have it? Do you know what it is? I'd never heard of it until I started learning about the harms of infant circumcision — far too late, I might add, to protect my son. Meatal stenosis is a urethral stricture disease caused by circumcision. Because its protective foreskin has been removed, the urinary meatus (pee hole) at the tip of the glans (head) of a circumcised penis can develop inflammation and scar tissue and become abnormally narrow.

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