Hello,

I am having my sons circumsion corrected after his intial one at birth. 

I was wondering if anyone went through this with their son and if you have any words of encouragement. I feel terrible to put him through this at 15 months but the dr's won't do the surgery again until they are 1 yr of age and I didn't want to what when he's older and have him go through it.

Please advise.

Emma

Hi

My son was circumsized at 2 weeks old.  They said he was to small for it to be done when he was born.  So at 2 weels it was done, and the Dr. that did it said that there were some adhesions and he thinks he broke them loose.  Well my son's penis was still really short, and his Ped. said that it did not look right.  I kept saying that it felt like he was down inside himself.  Like his penis could not come out.  So we saw a urologist, and he was diagnosed with phimosis.  It is adhesions that stick the skin to the penis, and the penis can not come out of the body.  He had to have surgery to fix it and the skin had to peeled off the penis and stitched back to make the head of the penis.  This was done when he was 6 mo., and the head of his penis is a little on the big side for now, the dr. said it would be fine as he got older.  He is now 22 mo.  and he looks just fine, no more issues. 

I know it is really really really hard to hand your child over to some stranger for surgery.  I cried my eyes out.  But the chances of something going wrong with the anesthesia are extremly slime, he will be fine.  My son also had to have another surgey when he was 9 mo. old, not related to this issue.  But I do not regret it at all.  He is now a totally normal little boy, he will not have to deal with it when he is older, it is done and taken care of.  It was a little painful for him to pee the first couple of times, but his case was kind of extrem.  The skin was totally raw from where they had to peel the skin off the penis.  I feel for you.  It is, again, really really hard.  I did not want to deal with it.  The only thing I hated about having a boy was putting him through this.  But he was not very uncomfortable at all, and he came through with flying colors. 

Hope I have eased your stress some, and in time.  I don't get on here much any more, so I just found your post.  Keep me posted on how things are, and my thoughts are with you.  Again, he will be just fine.  I know it don't help to much, but he really will.  By the way what is your son's issue that it needs to be done a second time?