On Thursday, February 22, 2007 9:34 PM, Karen Palmer wrote: "I am blown away that babies would be circumcised at such a young age!" Babies in New Zealand are lucky; early circumcision has not migrated to them from the USA, where boys were circumcised on day 2 or 3, in the hospital, as long ago as 38 years (my son included). Nowadays some OBs in the USA want to do it shortly after the birth. Welcome to the world my dear newborn! I imagine if parents are not forewarned, most of the OBs will jump on board on this. Then the parents will have to do battle on yet another procedure that they want to avoid in the hospital. How inhumane have we become in our neonatal care? Lee Galasso, MS, LLLL, IBCLC, RLC *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]