Wondering how to weigh the risks and benefits of circumcision? Here, experts chime in on how to make the right decision for your family.
Newborn circumcision—a procedure that dates back to ancient Egypt—involves cutting away the skin from the tip of a baby’s penis shortly after birth. While removing the foreskin once most likely had to do with hygiene and kicking off a baby boy’s entree into religion, baby circumcision has evolved over the past 100 years. Newborn circumcision has become more of a cultural norm in the US, where parents want sons to look like their fathers.
As per custom, healthy Jewish males receive their newborn circumcision on the eighth day after birth. Traditionally, a mohel, a man trained in Jewish laws and circumcision, performs the rite. But today there’s a growing number of female ob-gyns and midwives who are also mohelets who can carry it out.
, MD, a pediatric hospitalist and assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. “It’s like you distract the baby so much with that sensation of sweet that it erases their sensation for pain.”Sugar water aside, many parents wonder: Does circumcision hurt? Unfortunately, yes, it does—that’s why doctors usually administer a dorsal penile nerve block to numb the penis during surgery.
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