We willed our baby to survive over the next two days as he received oxygen, fluids, and treatment for extreme jaundice. Finally, a urine culture revealed a deadly MRSA infection to be the reason behind our son’s sudden, ferocious illness, and he was put on a course of two powerful antibiotics.
I began to resent the steady stream of residents who trickled into our room all day, inspecting our son as if he were an exotic specimen. Nurses graciously arranged for me to sleep in a vacant wing of the hospital at night, where, several hours in, I’d awaken drenched and freezing, my body recovering from a severe case of mastitis on top of giving birth.
In the early days after we returned home from the hospital, I masked my lingering feelings of helplessness by inserting control wherever I could, precisely timing my son’s naps and logging every ounce of milk he drank. Still, my unrelenting anxiety was evident throughout my entire body, my jaw clenched in a vice-like grip, my shoulders perpetually tight with nervous tension, my stomach a twisted mess of nauseated knots.
“Acknowledge the feeling,” Dr. Brenner advised, and recommended that I reframe the situation, telling myself something like: “
Circumcision is child abuse, anyway. My mom is a selfish, heartless b*tch for mutilating me. I would trade her for a drug addict if the drug addict at least respected my right to have a whole body. Shame on parents for cutting their kids. i2
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Sympathy to the mom going through round 2 of severe anxiety. Terrible article to post because people can’t read past the headline. The article isn’t about whether circumcision is good or bad, stop making her feel worse, read the damn article!!
If the mom is suffering from PTSD, just imagine the poor baby's trauma, after his mom got him genitally mutilated and almost killed him. Circumcision is absolutely sick and barbaric.
My sympathies for the babies who suffer because of their parents’ idiocy, recklessness and disregard for all common sense. I don’t have sympathy for said parents + the dread they endure, b/c it’s the result of something that could’ve been avoided. Circumcision is unnecessary!
'Although my son fully recovered, I battled PTSD for another two years.' What a daft statement. She doesn't think her son has PTSD from going through such a horrific event? Infant MGC gives babies PTSD even when it goes 'right':
Her decision for the cut almost killed her baby, yet what she reports is just her own suffering. Typical narcisstic mom. And her 'therapist'? Not a word abt her bad conscience, at least this mom doesn't mention it. A fully recovered baby? Distortion of perception at its best.
He shouldn’t be circumcised.
Who would have thought that taking a knife to someone is not safe.
Is 'my body, my choice' only for females?
You should't have circumcised him
'Although my son fully recovered' - a lying child abuser
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