Infant Circumcision: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

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I have heard people say that being a real man starts fro being circumcised, I’m not sure if it is the ability to withstand the pain or there is something else tied to it, whatever the reasons Africans have tied it to, the picture is still not clear to me.

The picture becomes clearer from the medical perspective, it’s more beneficial to get circumcised than not. It is the least complicated procedures but remains one of the most divisive.

With the traditional ways, if circumcision slowly losing meaning, many people are now taking their old enough children to the hospital for the procedure.

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A while ago parents waited until they were about 14-1 years of age to take them for the cut but now parents do it as early as infancy. Is there a really big difference in the timing or is any time a cutting time.

Here’s what you need to know about Infant circumcision;

  • Your baby will never experience urinary tract infection in his first year of life. Not only UTI’s but also other infections, you know bacteria thrive folds and corners so by giving your baby the cut the risks are minimal.
  • It lowers the risk of getting penial cancer, plus cleaning is easy

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As we celebrate the con’s we should be able to weight the options.

  • One, remember that this is an infant. Hunger makes the little fellow scream his lung out so what of pain and irritation? my friend this is the real trauma
  • Your baby may bleed excessively and the wound my yield infection
  • because they are still not fully developed the doctor may cut the foreskin too short or too long
  • Narrowing of the meatus (the tube that allows urine to exit from the body)
  • Reduced sensitivity, which may cause a decrease in sexual pleasure later in life or painful intercourse for the man’s sexual partner.

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So, with that established are you still willing to take your baby for circumcision. As for me, I cannot put my baby in such a condition at that helpless stage beside the procedure is not running away it was there, it is there and will continue until the end of time. Why rush? However, if you feel infant circumcision is more appealing to you, by all means, do so.

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