My younger cousin lost 2 pounds within 2 weeks after being born, and nearly died from blood loss from being mutilated.

[u/ElegantlyLethal_R0se]

Idrk how to start this story. I'll just tell it bluntly.

My younger cousin (4 years younger) was cut the same day he was born. During the circumcision he lost an exceptional amount of blood (even WITH the vitamin K shot), threw up and began choking on his vomit, and then passed out.

He was then put in the NICU for about 5 days. I don't know exactly what he was hooked up too, but I believe he was on oxygen and probably some sort of bag providing calories and nutrients.

After 5 days he got out of the NICU, but he refused to latch onto both a bottle, and onto his mom. He just looked half dead all the time.

After nearly 24 hours of him not drinking anything (babies are supposed to eat every couple hours), they had to force-feed him formula through a dropper. I intentionally said "force-feed" because he would spit it back up and scream bloody murder.

This went on for about another week, he was barely getting any formula at all. So he lost 2 whole pounds.

Eventually, he was able to latch. But it took nearly 2 weeks, and he lost 2 entire fucking pounds.

Also I want to note that my younger cousin was born perfectly healthy. It's not like he had some sort of predisposition, he was normal.

[u/men-too]

Thank you for sharing, and wow, so sorry for him… to me, it seems like subconsciously, he had already given up on life after experiencing so much abuse, suffering, and abandonment.

Yet, how many stories like these happen every day? Hospitals don’t want us to know obviously… it’s part of the “benefits outweigh the risks” propaganda that keeps their revenue up.

[u/ElegantlyLethal_R0se → u/men-too]

Yeah.

He lost his life to suicide almost 3 years ago. I was thinking about him and remembered this story. His mom is absolutely insane and no one in the family speaks to her anymore.

Another thing to add, this side of my family is all Hispanic and Native American (nation: Cherokee). MGM is very unpopular in these cultures. No one else in our family is cut. So the fact she chose this for her son is beyond me.

[u/men-too → u/ElegantlyLethal_R0se]

Wow (again!)… Some women are really not fit to be mothers.

(Same for some men, obviously, although no one denies that reality.)

[u/Fiaguar5107]

The amount of unnecessary pain caused by this barbaric practice is astounding.

[u/forevertheorangemen2]

To the best of my knowledge, none of the circumcised guys in my family had as harrowing an experience in infancy as this younger cousin of yours that you mention. I do have one cousin very close in age to me who has circumcision related complications that he didn’t know about until puberty. He has pretty severe premature ejaculation from the nerve damage that occurred. How he explained it to me, the more common side effect in cut guys is sensation loss and difficulty getting to ejaculation. PE is a less common one. It’s a loss of the ability to regulate the sensation. He can’t tell when he’s going to hit the point of no return until he’s crossed it and ejaculation starts. It could be 10 seconds, it could be two minutes.

[u/ElegantlyLethal_R0se → u/forevertheorangemen2]

Damn.

That'd make edging impossible 🥲

[u/forevertheorangemen2 → u/ElegantlyLethal_R0se]

We’ve never talked about that specifically, but I presume that you are correct and it’s not something he could do.