I'm a little behind on reading my LACTNET posts but Peroxide caught my
attention.
My best friend and her husband adopted a baby boy earlier this month. (this
is their first child, they have been married ten years and have been trying
to conceive for most of them.) The infant was placed with them through a
charitable organization with an adoption program.
The birth mother chose to have the baby placed in a "receiving home" for the
five days after birth so she could resolve any issues she had and sign the
papers to relinquish the baby. (in Louisiana mother relinquishes baby by 5
days after birth and the adoption becomes final 6 month after birth.)
The receiving home provided the new parents with their "well- baby care"
instructions.  I am truly sorry they missed out on the hospital nursery
nurse's discharge instruction because the receiving home gave them some
peculiar information.  The most outstanding was to use Peroxide on the
circumcision after each diaper change.  My first instinct was to say don't do
it.  I checked with my husband, a pediatric intensive care and cert. ped.
trauma  RN and he agreed with me.  He felt that the peroxide would remove any
new tissue that had formed or was forming as part of the circ.  I was lucky
enough to be able to do alot of teaching the night the baby came home.
Has ayone else heard of using hydrogen peroxide on a fresh circumcision?  If
so, why is this done instead of K-Y or petroleum jelly?
TIA
Jackie Terrebonne, RN
Covington, LA (30 miles north of New Orleans)
Best friend to the most nervous parents in the galaxy.