Hi Sharon! Welcome aboard. Good to have someone from around the corner to chat with..... Judy, If the moms in Israel are having babies circed at 8 days, by that time I would think that bf would be off to a good start. I think my concern (among others) is that babies here are being circed between 12 and 24 hours of age - most of them haven't established a good feeding pattern yet, and this simply delays it more. I don't remember seeing this much of a problem when the moms were staying three days and baby was circed the day before discharge. It seems that there was time to establish a good feeding pattern which the baby already associated with comfort before the pain was inflicted upon them, and then they were able to regroup an go back to it easier than these babies who have not established anything and then are circed. There is a good article in this months Pediatrics about dorsal penile nerve block for circumcisions. Really emphasises that babies DO feel pain!! Jan Barger