tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110409485953392778.comments2009-06-18T11:08:33.282-07:00Not CrunchyHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16553684144656061726noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110409485953392778.post-2756455562441063512009-06-18T11:08:33.282-07:002009-06-18T11:08:33.282-07:00Thanks for breaking it down so clearly!Thanks for breaking it down so clearly!Sleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649221624958002039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110409485953392778.post-3598995903320642932008-09-26T23:21:00.000-07:002008-09-26T23:21:00.000-07:00The previous commenter has a link from bioethicsin...The previous commenter has a link from bioethicsinternational.org. This link is a reprint of an article from the New York Times. The commenter also goes on to claim how there was a study on 87 baby boys who just happened to cry longer after a vaccination because they were circumcised.<BR/><BR/>Medical claims like this are only considered credible if they are backed up by studies published in journals. Not once does this commenter or the NYT article refer to a published study. The NYT article isn't even written by someone in the medical community.<BR/><BR/>I don't doubt that babies feel pain, but you can't just go quoting some random site you found on the internet to prove a point.<BR/><BR/>If you need to prove a point, do it like this:<BR/><BR/>Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention: British Medical Journal 12/9/00 Van Howe, et al.<BR/><BR/>Male circumcision, penile human papillomavirus infection, and cervical cancer: New England Journal of Medicine 4/11/02 Castellsagué, et al.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110409485953392778.post-31247661770526614372008-05-10T20:57:00.000-07:002008-05-10T20:57:00.000-07:00Your statement that if a baby is circumcised at bi...Your statement that if a baby is circumcised at birth, he won't remember it - is incorrect. Please read the study below, before you do harm to your son.<BR/><BR/>http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/?p=457 Pain & Circ<BR/><BR/> <BR/>Anna Taddio, a pain specialist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, noticed more than a decade ago that the male infants she treated seemed more sensitive to pain than their female counterparts. This discrepancy, she reasoned, could be due to sex hormones, to anatomical differences — or to a painful event experienced by many boys: circumcision. In a study of 87 baby boys, Taddio found that those who had been circumcised soon after birth reacted more strongly and cried for longer than uncircumcised boys when they received a vaccination shot four to six months later. Among the circumcised boys, those who had received an analgesic cream at the time of the surgery cried less while getting the immunization than those circumcised without pain relief.<BR/><BR/>Taddio concluded that a single painful event could produce effects lasting for months, and perhaps much longer. “When we do something to a baby that is not an expected part of its normal development, especially at a very early stage, we may actually change the way the nervous system is wired,” she says. Early encounters with pain may alter the threshold at which pain is felt later on, making a child hypersensitive to pain — or, alternatively, dangerously indifferent to it. Lasting effects might also include emotional and behavioral problems like anxiety and depression, even learning disabilities (though these findings are far more tentative).specialaffinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03004519335393571260noreply@blogger.com