I didnt have my son circumcized and a friend of mine recently asked if i have to pull the skin back and clean. Which i dont. He is 13mnths and i was just hoping sum one could help if i should be doing sum thin different.
The skin is actually joined to the penis at this point and retracting it will cause small tears which can become infected. Probably how the idea that foreskin gets infected came about. The foreskin will naturally detach from the penis when it's ready and your son will find that out himself as he plays with it at his own pace.
Robin Barker had a great quote "the uncircumcised penis needs the same care as the elbow". The forseskin will between the ages three - seven will slip backwards and forwards quite easily.
My DS2 certainly plays with it at a very speedy pace..so far so good
I had the same worry with my DS. He is 4 and his foreskin has started to retract. He now pulls it back to wave it in the water in the bath (because he can) and insists on whoever is doing bath duty watch him "get his willy out!". Very very funny.
Yep, as above. TBH my DH swears he didn't know it could be pulled back til he was 13. He learnt from a friend at school! Also the same time he learnt some other interesting things lol
But he still never had any infections or problems with it.
as above, leave it alone, it wont be ready to be pulled back for a while yet. My son was about 8-10 before he could pull it back.
Our nephew had problems at age 4 with infection that would not clear up and he had to have it circumsized to fix the problem. I dont know how they become infected though, but you'll know it if it does get infected becasue it goes very red and is very sore.
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