SAVING OUR SONS.
All around the world, expectant parents are faced with many decisions when it comes to the birth of their unborn baby.
The interest parents take in researching these decisions has exploded in the last few years with alternative medicinal practices like midwives, home births and natural births on the rise.
Many new parents attribute the outcome of their choices to the research they do online.
The United States in particular is faced with a new issue taking hold of the internet, one only parents expecting a baby boy must consider, and that issue is routine infant circumcision.
Routine infant circumcision has been a normalcy within the United States since the 1950’s, following the end of World War II.
Most parents expecting baby boys in the United States do not think twice about the issue of circumcision, especially when most generations of men in their family are circumcised as well.
However, there is a rapidly growing number of parents, men, and organizations on the internet and on the streets challenging expectant parents to reconsider routine infant circumcision and bring their baby boys home intact.
The foreskin of a newborn male is very narrow to prevent the entrance of foreign substances in infancy, such as faecal matter.
It is attached to the foreskin and the membrane attaching it must be torn so that the foreskin can be pulled away from the head of the penis.
The doctor then crushes the foreskin with clamps to sever blood vessels and prevent excessive bleeding.
The foreskin is then held with forceps and a slit is made down the side of the foreskin.
A device called a Plastibell or a Gomco clamp is then inserted in between the foreskin and the head of the penis, and the foreskin is pulled over each device.
The doctor performing the circumcision will then estimate how much foreskin needs to be removed and either clamp down or tie string around the foreskin to cut off blood supply and allow for clotting.
Then, foreskin above the clamp or string is cut away.
Circumcision is always based on the estimation of the doctor as to how much should be removed, which could explain why routine infant circumcision results in so many complications.
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