--- Kate Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > still, i believe that circumcision its a individual > choice & it is not my > place to say what is right or wrong for > others...still, i would only to hope > that parents would make their decision based on > weighing the pros & cons (as > in any medical procedure)...
All this talk about penises now... For a while docs were telling parents that circumcision was the way to go with baby boys so people were doing it. I think it has gone in and out of style, as it were, as far as whether it's medically necessary or preventive medicine or whatever. Our provincial health insurance covered it. Then maybe ten years ago or so, the docs did an about-face and decided it wasn't medically necessary at all, and our health insurance delisted it. I'm not a guy, so what do I know about this stuff? My son was circumcised because his father thought he should be, and because we understood it was better to do it and, if you're going to do it, the younger the better (like when you're a newborn?) After it was done, my little guy was crying and crying and I went into the nursery and I started crying too because he sounded so sad and helpless and he had such a beautiful little face and you didn't want to see it looking so sad. I said, "Poor little thing" and this nurse muttered at me as she walked by, "Well, you didn't have to do it, did you?" Ironically, my son was born in a Jewish hospital. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
