Natural Mother's Say No to Circumcision

...I couldn't have said it more eloquently myself. Everything the author mentions in this article I completely relate with; their decision not to circumcise their son, why, their reasoning, etc.

I'm still surprised when people ask me if I have to retract Levi's foreskin. ????? I guess that's just the common belief? To me it just seems like such outdated misinformation, it's hard for me to believe that it's still out there.

My response is always, "Noooooooooo. His foreskin should never be retracted, unless he's the one doing the retracting."

Boys foreskins will automatically begin to loosen at puberty or just before. Prior to that, the foreskin acts as an extremely important barrier for the glans of the penis; keeping it moist {which it should be, not dry and chafed like the glans of a circumcised penis}, and keeping harmful bacteria out.

Keeping Levi intact was one of the healthiest decisions we ever made for him. Like the author of the above article, I'm committed to getting the word out in our country that foreskins are our friends! Parents....put...the...knife...down.

It's not our decision as parents to decide which perfectly healthy body parts our children get to keep. We don't cut our daughters. We shouldn't cut our sons.

I especially love this quote from the article...

"When I found out I was having a boy in 2001, I hadn’t really thought much about circumcision. I did about five minutes of research and knew immediately I would never allow unnecessary surgery to be performed on my healthy baby boy. Luckily, my husband (who is circumcised) agreed after I showed him just one picture of a circumcision being performed. If my husband hadn’t agreed, I still couldn't have allowed it to happen, so I was glad to avoid a disagreement."

Most of the women I've talked to who made the decision to circumcise their son, cited there reason as mainly that their husband's wanted him to be. Ummmm....yaaaah. I'm his mother. After the research I've done, which like she said, took literally five minutes to come to a logical decision, even if my husband did still want him to be circumcised, it just wouldn't happen. Like I said, I'm his mother. Protector. Life-giver. Nurturer. I love my husband, I honor him and I submit to him. But I protect my babies too. It's my God given job. And my passion.

But I never had to go through that with Dave. I knew what kind of man I married. I picked him for a reason. He was open minded and logical about it. I showed him a couple of youtube videos, cited a couple of studies and we had a heart to heart and that was it. No circumcision.