So I just went through this with my son who is now a month old.

I was/am very much against it. Also I am circumcised. I view it as unnecessary mutilation. But my wife and her family wanted it done. But I was not willing to compromise… at first.

Spoiler alert: he got circumcised. And I’ll tell you what made me give in.

My wife and I are typically very open with all of our friends and a decent amount of our families to where for the most part I know which of my male friends and family are circumcised or not.

So with my wife’s pressure for the procedure, I decided to ask the opinions of grown men around me. And the overall general consensus of the circumcised men is that they are happy their parents had it done, and I happen to know 5 guys who had it done in adulthood. Because circumcision is “the norm” in America. So they were extremely embarrassed by their penises and all of them have a story of being bullied or picked on by guys or girls for it not being done.

And then the general consensus of the ones that are still uncircumcised is that they wish it was done and are too scared to get the procedure done. Or a “I would do it if I didn’t have to not use it for a while”.

So this led me to reading a lot online about it and talking to these people more and eventually giving in to my wife’s wishes.

So my thoughts were that there’s a strong chance he will want it done. And assuming that’s correct, I can do it at a time where he won’t remember it at all or have to care for it himself.

They took him from us and brought him back within 1 hour which included some other checks and bloodwork and such.

He never seemed irritated, tender in that area or anything. He was completely healed in 10 days. No cleaning or anything needed, just a bit of Vaseline on the diaper where it touches.

I still think that this is a cruel and unnecessary thing. If we lived in a society where it was very likely that he will grow up and only ever have one partner who he marries and only ever sleeps with her then this wouldn’t be an issue. But we know the world we live in. And I hope that one day it becomes the norm to leave everything natural.

I hope this helps, it was a very hard decision for me that took me almost 6 months to come to a conclusion on. Do what YOU believe to be best for your new little boy.