Who was in the room for You?

Soo I myself got circumcised at the age of 8 by my pediatrician and during said well procedure my Mother was in the room able to watch.

I've heard of people who had nurses aides and various parental units witnessing the 'big moment' as it were but I'm curious how common it actually is.

What about ya'll? Any of you cut folk have an audience for the event as it were??

In my case, only the doctor and the assistants were present. My parents waited in the waiting room for me to come out.

I was 7 years old

Speaking for our third son, I was in the room with him when the doctor performed the circumcision. Our first and second sons were both circumcised, but I was not in the room with them. All three sons were circumcised as newborns before leaving the hospital where they were born.

With the third son, I simply asked the doctor if I could be in the room during the circumcision and he said I yes. While observing the circumcision, I asked the doctor why he did not use local anesthesia. He said that the injection of the local anesthesia hurts about the same as cutting off the foreskin so most doctors just cut without local anesthesia.

If I were getting circumcised at any age when I could choose, like three years old and older, I would want the local anesthesia or maybe even general anesthesia.

How about we do a study in which volunteers are circumcised without local anesthesia and then after recovering from the procedure, the same people have the local anesthesia injected as if they were going to be circumcised. I would trust their opinion regarding which method hurts the most or the least.

I was done under general anesthesia, so when I went under there was the urologist, his intern who did the actual surgery, and one nurse. I was 18 and didn't involve my family, so I was alone in recovery except for another patient who was pretty much asleep most of the time. The nurses were very nice to me, though. I suspect there was discussion about me because at one point an orderly said something like "yeah, you did the right thin. the girls won't suck it unless it's cut." It didn't occur to me at the time that it was a pretty inappropriate thing for him to say. It might just have been that getting this kind of surgery seems to bring a lot of opinions out of people.

I had it done as an adult and it was the woman surgeon and two or three women nurses. I am not exactly sure because the surgeon did not allow me to watch the actual circumcision because apparently a prior patient had freaked out and you must remain completely still. I could only hear people talking and feel tugging after the local anesthetic as injected into the base of my penis by one of the nurses.

I was circumcised when I was 14. When I was brought to the operating room (they called it the “procedure room”), two male nurses helped me get onto the table. The doctor walked in after I was already prepped and ready for the operation.

I remember it being a very busy office. There were three interconnected “procedure rooms,” with the doctor moving between them. There were also three beds in the recovery room, separated by curtains, and so many exam rooms.

I was circumcised at 51. In the operating room, I saw two nurses who prepared me, then the anesthetist came. And then, general anesthesia. I didn't see the surgeon arrive. I saw him a little before entering the operating room and after the procedure, which only lasted 20 minutes.

Unsure. Surgeon + anesthesiologist + surgical nurse, I suppose. No parent.