Had my son circumcised on October 21st. This was my experience.

The other day, I went to get my son circumcised. Yes, I did it with my sons. It cost me $200 bucks with my son, and $225 for my last son. Then the travelling cost. So they make me go to Oliver, a 2 hour drive for his original consultation. Then they make me go back the next week. All this driving around, because I live in a shit hole is pissing me off. You have to travel to do anything here. Any who. I go for the circumcision, and with my first son they let me stay in the waiting room. With Matthew, they made me go in. So my son wakes me up at 3:00 in the morning and wont let me go back to sleep. I have to be up at 5:00 because I have to travel 2 hours to Oliver to be there for 7:45. So he keeps me up until 5:00 when I have to get up anyways. I travel all that way, and finally get in at 8:15. They make me go into the room where they stick him on this board thing. They pin him down so he can't fight during the procedure and he is being so good about it. So they freeze "it" and start the procedure. He starts screaming his head off. And I am comforting him because I can't stand seeing my son crying. It doesn't help of course. And I want to cry. But, I keep it together and keep comforting him. He screamed the whole time. And then I finally got to pick him up. He was so upset. So finally after a minute of holding him and comforting him, I finally get him to settle down. He falls asleep. Then we go into another room and wait for 45 minutes. Then the doctor comes back in and looks at it. My son crys the second that he hears his voice. Afraid he is going to hurt him again or something. So I comfort him again and he falls back asleep. Then the nurse comes in 15 minutes later and he screams again because she is looking at it.

Anyways, finally I get out of there. And go to Penticton to shop. He is literally screaming all day long if I wasn't holding him. He wanted to nurse like every 1/2 hour. My nipples are raw now. Today he is much better. But that was so traumatising.

So all together, you might ask yourself, would I have done it, if I had realized how hard it was going to be? And the answer is still yes. Better now then later. It's less evasive, and he has forgotten about it already. Not to mention the amount of blood loss. He is much better today. Like nothing happened yesterday. So all together, I am glad that I got it done. But yesterday, I wouldn't have said the same thing. Too many reasons to get it done. The only reason not too, is putting your child thru that. It takes someone strong to not want to cry all day long for allowing anyone to do that to your son. For anyone who decides to circumcise their son, suggestion. Ask to wait in the waiting room. DO NOT GO IN!!! It's too hard for a mom to take. It was hard with Joshua, but nothing like that.