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Infant Circumcision: Can they really feel it? As an American living in the twentieth century, I can state with certainty that one of the biggest things we pride ourselves on is our technological superiority and advances in healthcare. That is why I was so shocked ....

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.... harmful for the baby because of the types of drugs that would be necessary to use. Although a valid concern, this belief has been proven by scientists to be false. In two different Clinical trials where lidocaine was injected into the penis of the infants, there was no sign of bleeding, swelling or hematomas at the site of the injection after the surgery was completed. As for the baby’s reaction to the drug, “there was no sign of post operative vital sign abnormalities, no skin changes, no depressed spinal reflex activity, and no delayed recovery of penile sensation” (Williamson 5). All of the baby’s did quite well with the medication ....