BESNY OF NIE?!?

Dankie julle vir jul raad!!!

Ek se ook NIE Poppie, ek glo dis daar vir 'n rede. Ek weet mens hoor van baie mense wat probleme het maar soos ek dit sien, my boetie het nooit probleme gehad nie, my DH het nie en toe ek my tannie daaroor vra se sy haar seun het een keer 'n infeksie gehad en toe ook nie weer nie (nie waarvan sy weet nie se sy,lol)
So ek dink mens moet dit net los. En nie te veel daarmee lol nie. Ek sou nooit aan my kind laat sny het nie want ek dink dit moet dam baie seer wees. My ma het my vertel dat sy het met 'n man uitgegaan wat syne laat snip het toe hy heelwat groter was (wel sy ouers het) en hy het hulle nooit vergewe nie.
Dit is so sensitiewe storie vir baie mense maar vir my is dit 'n nee!
My seuntjie is 16 maande en hy vat ook aan daai nommertjie elke kans wat hy kry so eks seker hulle sorteer dit self uit. Wel altans ek hoop so!
My ma het ook vir my gese ek moet daaraan trek 'saggies' so sy het natuurlik maar dis ook nie vir my nie.
Good Luck
x

Poppie sorry for replying in english, my afrikaans is really bad.

I recently did some reading on this because my son is 22 months and I'd heard that the foreskin starts to retract between 1 and 2 years old. The sensible info that I found seems to say leave it alone and don't try and force it back, it could take upto 6 yrs old for it to retract.

From: www.circumstitions.com/Care.html
"In the Paediatric Casualty Department at the Johannesburg Hospital we frequently see children with torn foreskins caused by forcing the foreskin back over the glans penis. The damage is most often done by clinic sisters, but I regret to say that it is sometimes caused by general practitioners who seem to be unaware of the normal development of the foreskin.

The normal foreskin will in the normal course of events dilate sufficiently to slip over the head of the penis by 5 or 6 years of age. It does not require anyone's help to do this. The head of the penis does not require cleaning. Nature does the job very efficiently by means of natural secretions. The white material which collects under the foreskin is not dirt or pus but good healthy epithelial debris which will slowly but surely separate the adherent foreskin from the glans better than any nurse or doctor should do it.

It is a good rule that is a baby passes a good stream of urine without causing ballooning of the foreskin, then that foreskin is entirely normal.

Will nurses and doctors please take note?

P. Catzel
Principal Paediatrician
Paediatric Casualty Department
Johannesburg Hospital
Johannesburg"

I also read somewhere else the advice to let your son pull back the foreskin himself when he is ready to do it, during his natural exploration of his body - he is the one who will feel pain or not, so will only do it when it is ready. I hope this helps. If I were you I wouldn't try and force it back, but go with what you feel is best.

HI almal,

ek wil graag hoor wat is jul gevoel oor besnyding ? My seuntjie is nou 2 en half en sy velletjie wil nie heeltemal terugtrek nie. Die dr het gese die velletjie sal mettertyd rek. Hy het laasweek effense infeksie gehad en hy het toe voorgestel dat ek die velletjie elke aand terugtrek as ek hom bad.

Ek het dit nooit voorheen gedoen nie want 'n dokter het my aanbeveel om dit eerder te los want die tollie maak homself skoon.