I’ve seen more genital emergencies with uncirc tykes than those with circumcission.
Circumcission heals in a fews days and rarely gets infected. In fact I never saw an infection.
Uncircumcised babies or their hygene motivated mothers pull the foreskin back, there is some swelling, the foreskin gets stuck in the retracted position and cuts off blood flow to the glans. I’ve never seen amputation as the result but I’ve seen some severely inflamed members and a few emergent surgeries.
The funny thing is that I had never seen this condition prior to moving to California and serving a largely immigrant population. Circumcission rates where I trained was about 100%
There is risk to having an intact foreskin in the early pediatric years.
Interesting...
Two generations ago, it wasn’t the norm among non-Jews in America. My father recommended not to circumcise. But I’m relieved to hear we probably made the right decision to circumcise. See my post above - for years, I felt terrible about it. Our other children had no complications, though.