Our 6 yo son's Circumcision doesn't look right, Its as if his "thingy" hides all the time. I've asked the Dr. about it several times over the years and he assured me it was done properly....The reason I am asking this NOW is we just had boy and girl twins. Our 7 week old son's "thingy" looks like my husbands NO extra skin.
Then yesterday at a family reunion I was talking to my cousin as she was changing her 2 year old son and his "thingy" was SO much bigger than our 6 year olds. Hubby and I had talked (several years ago) about how we thought it had stopped growing.
I feel like such an idiot talking about this, But I don't know how to talk to the Dr. about it, and wondered if anyone else's child had this problem
I am going to ask the Dr. again when I take him in June for his check up, I am going to take my neice with us and have her to take him out while I talk to the Dr. I don't want him to think there is something wrong with him. :-(
Last edited by Connie in Al.; 05-22-2006 at 08:24 PM.
I am so glad you asked this, as I have the same concerns for my stepson. He is 10.5 years old, I've been his stepmom since he was 3 and I swear to you it has not grown in this time. If anything it looks smaller now because the rest of his body has grown, but his "thingy" hasn't. I know it may sound wierd that I know what my stepson's "thingy" looks like at this age, but he has encopresis which is severe constipation and we have to look in the toilet before he flushes to make sure he is passing stool and that it's not too firm. His also looks like it's hiding all of the time, it never pokes out. His is very tiny. My 4 year old was born with a bigger "thingy" than my stepson has now, and my 4 yr old's has continues to grow as he has, this is the same with my 6 month old, his is bigger than the 10.5 year old's. And their's look like they're poking out all of the time, they never hide. (Their foreskin never comes over the tip) I have tried to talk to my husband about this several times, but he takes it as a blow to his pride for one of his sons to be "small". (silly, huh?) I am looking forward to reading any and all replies to this post. I hope it's nothing serious. Like in your case, the drs have never said anything negative about it. My best friend's son is 14 months old and he has the same problem, but his looks like the foreskin has reattached around the rim. You can't poke it out even if you try. When I used to bathe my stepson when he was 3 and 4 I would push his foreskin back to clean it and it always moved freely, so I don't think that's the problem. ???? It's very puzzling and troublesome. Thanks again for posting this, hopefully we'll get some answers. Take care!!
This can be due to an impropper cirumcision or a number of other reasons. A friend of mine has a son who has this. You really cannot see his penis at all. But with him if you push on the fat pad that is around it the penis will come out a bit more. Check out some info about "hidden penis" it is a medical condition. Most liely the penis is there, but something is preventing it from coming out of the body in a flacid state.
Hope this helps a bit. The boy I knew ended up have his surgery redone at about 3 years of age, but I do not know what the end result was as it too is a very sensitive subject for the parents to talk about.
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Wheeeeeew....I didn't know if I would get any responses to this, I felt like a pervert for talking about it in public forum.
I know this sounds awful but I'm relieved to know that we are not alone in our concern. I was thinking maybe this was so abnormal that no one would know what I was talking about.
Ausomemom I can completely relate I'm thinking our son will be the same way at 10 yrs old. Our son has always been a very sensitive child when it comes to his feelings (he gets that from me) I'm afraid when he gets older he will feel like there is something wrong with him. The first time he saw us change our 7 week old daughter he said "Look mommy she's like me, her pee pee hasn't come down either" I explained to him God made us all different.
My husband has said from the time our son was an infant that he would have trouble with it, I explained to hubby that Dr. said it was ok and that I didn't know what else to do about it. Our pedi. is so lacks about every thing I'm thinking about changing Dr.s
Keira that is the way our son is you can push the skin back and it will come out some. Thanks for the info on hidden penis, I will be looking this up on the internet
Hidden penis can very, very rarely be a congenital condition. Far more often, it happens because the surgeon removed shaft skin in addition to his foreskin.
The incision line constricts upon healing, burying the penis by pushing it downward into the pubic fat.
The surgical correction of a buried penis depends on the abnormality. A marked improvement can seen in most people by removing excessive pubic fat and sewing down the overlying skin of the pubis and scrotum to the erectile bodies. Occasionally, skin grafts are necessary if too much skin was removed by a previously excessive circumcision.
Please, don't ever feel like a pervert for asking a question to help out a loved one.
Take care!!
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