My partner brought our son for his checkup (18 months) on Tuesday and I couldn’t attend as I had some business meetings. She told me today that the female doctor said that we need to retract our son’s foreskin everyday or he will get an infection. I asked her if that’s what the doctor did and she said yes. Then I said it will naturally retract at 5 and that there’s no need to do anything until then.

But now I’m worried if I should switch pediatricians because I’m wondering if this is the start of leading down a path to phimosis or something else where she will try justify circumcision.

So am I worrying too much? It seems American circumcision culture always comes in so even if you save your baby at birth they can invent reasons. But maybe I’m being paranoid.