Circumcision

We as parents made the decision to have Paxten circumcised. Parker was when he was born and the just did it right at the hospital before we left. That was so nice! It seems that times and policies have changed in 5 years and they will no longer do that procedure at the hospital, you have to do it at the doctor's office. So we made an appointment to do just that. I was an emotional basket case, thinking about what they were going to do to my poor little perfect baby. I knew it would be painful, but kept telling myself that he would thank us when he is older. There are several good reasons to have the procedure done and I was sure I wanted to do it. But when the nurses brought in a tray and a thing called a "circumstraint" I started to get emotional. I saw the little "circumstraint" sitting there on the table with it's 4 straps to hold my little boy down I started bawling. So when the doctor came in to explain the prodecedure, he kept asking me if I was sure we wanted to do it. Yes. I finally calmed down and we left the room while our poor little guy had "it" done. He came out calm and not even looking like he had cried. Then the numbing cream wore off and it was bad. The poor thing was crying so hard he couldn't hardly breathe. Now I felt like an awful parent. I told Matt that from now on until it was completely healed, he was in charge of diaper changes. I couldn't even look at it I felt so bad!! Well Paxten has recovered quite well and after 1 long day of feeling miserable, he is doing good and the area has healed up rather nicely. Like I said he will thank us one day, and he will be glad we didn't wait until he was 5 or 12 or whatever.