Hi Alicia, I was always taught that babies were circumcised on the 8th day because that's when their natural Vit. K levels were high enough to prevent excessive bleeding. I suspect, however, that the trauma from the birth is over and baby is bf reasonably well too. Plus, the little wine they give the baby helps considerably, I'm sure. Informed means a lot. If our Jill, now age 20, had been a boy, she would have been circumcised. With Torrey Beth, now 16, we were on the fence. By the time Timothy came along, now age 10, we were definitely against it. Good thing we started with girls! Jan Barger [log in to unmask]