circumcision ? | Autism PDD

My son is also not circumcised; same reason as yours husbands choice. This is a worry with me too. I just about took him in a few months ago to have it done because he was having trouble with yeast but we have that solved now that he takes acidophilus(sp) everyday. But he is only 2 so I am doing all the washing for him so I don't know if we will have problems yet. I sure hope not

Dont feel alone I am there with ya

My boys are both circumsized, even though I instructed the Docs NOT to do it (long story for another time) but I had always heard that as long as you take baths (or showers) and stay relatively clean, there was no need to wash it specifically any differently. I could be wrong, since I have no penis! Zachary is also not circed. We had made the decision on information vs. dh who is circed. I just couldn't stand the thought of drs. cutting on my precious baby at a day old for no reason. Long story short, Zach does however look circed. now since he was born with Chordee and had hypoplastic (thin and not enough) skin on his penis. It was twisted and pinned down to the left. At 7 mo. old he had his repair surgery and they fixed the muscles and tendons inside and then pealed down the foreskin and used it as a skin graft on the shaft of his penis. It's hard to explain on a post but the long story short is they put over 30 stitches in to hold it perminately retracted. OUCH! It took weeks to heal but his urologist did an awesome job and you can hardly see the scars now! He does get irritated easily and yeast infections often but that has more to do with autistic children are more prone to them then NT. I put ointment and powder on Zach constantly to keep the infections away. If that doesn't work we have to have a special ointment made 1 part nystatan cream, 1 part trimicione cream and 1 part milk of magnessia, works like a charm and clears it up in hrs. vs. days.
Alex (4.5 yrs) is also not circed but dh is. After researching, we just didn't see a good enough reason to do it. Our PA asked why we made this decision since he wouldn't look like most other boys in school. We told her that "we weren't raising him to be like everyone else". Now that he has been dx'd with pdd-nos, I guess that we don't have to worry about that, irony,irony.

Washing is all part of the routine and we have had no issues yet. I don't know if that will change when he begins to shower, if he ever does. He can't do spraying water such as showers and sprinklers. I don't regret our decision to leave it alone as God designed it.

Suzi
Hey there,

Although I'm not in your situation, I would recommend working it into his routine, if he takes a bath at night, just has he's about to step out, stop him and have him help you do it, hand over hand. perhaps if you do this consistently, he will just automatically get into the habit of doing it. i would put this right up there with teeth brushing, I'd rather have it out now then have a terribly painful situation in the future. also, you might want to make up a social story regarding self help skills and care. i always found what ever we were teaching, repetition worked best. Best of Luck and i hope this helps.
I know this may be a weird topic but I just wanted some opinions/suggestions or insight. My husband made the decision not to get our son circumcised because he (my husband) isn't. I didn't really care one way or another at the time. However, now I'm just not sure. I mean if he was NT, then I or my husband could explain to him how important it is to wash and all that (I'm sure you don't want me to get into details
I guess I wouldn't worry about it for now and just make sure he gets clean. Most children that age, nt or not, don't understand well about cleaning. I still have to keep telling my dd to wipe front to back as she has gotten an infection before from not. And she's nt as can be. If you find there is going to be major issues later, then you can decide what to do. For now, don't worry. I'm sure it'll all be fine in the future.

Amber
Well, we decided not to circ either of our boys for the same reasons. But, my oldest had to get it done earlier this year (he's 6) because staph infections are crazy around south texas and somehow he got one just under his foreskin. When it healed, the skin was "stuck" to part of the head and it wouldn't retract anymore so we had no choice. It kinda freaked him out. I hope he doesn't have issues as an adult over this...
Now my 5 yr old will probably need it done too. But I'm scared about how he will react and if it will make him regress on his potty training. His foreskin should be retracting by now but it doesn't. It only has the small opening at the top still. He doesn't complain of pain, but it is always a bit red around the foreskin and the urologist thinks we should do it. I dunno though... My oldest stayed bare butt nekkid for a month while it was healing. He couldn't stand any clothes touching him. He missed 2 weeks of school and when he did go back, for 2 weeks he wore loose pants and took them off as soon as he got home. So, I guess if I had to do it again, I would have circed them at birth. Now there are numbing creams and anestetics they use for circumcisions. My mom wants to say "I told you so" to me about it, but I don't give her the chance....LOL

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