When is the Right Time Should Your Boy be Circumcised?

This is a difficult one, for most people its more of a religious or cultural issue, than a medical one. If neonatal circumcision wasn't done, then it can be delayed until the pre-teen or teenage years when the boy can fully understand what he will go through (pain and post circumcision care). It is also best for parents requesting for circumcision of their male children to have both general and local complication explained to the child.

Although there are medical condition that warrant an earlier circumcision such as balanitis xerotica obliterans, a skin condition affecting the male genitalia; recurrent balanoposthitis or inflammation of the foreskin and glans in uncircumcised males; and glans in uncircumcised males; and proven urinary tract anomaly, to reduce the risk of infection with possible local and systemic damage.

Newborn Babies might benefit from having music played to them

This ones interesting, I found this article using our library online journals. This may help those incoming pregnant mommies.

Playing music to neonates may have physiological and behavioural benefits and might reduce pain and improve feeding, according to the preliminary findings of researchers in Canada who investigated the effects of music played to term or premature infants.

Six studies evaluated music for painful procedures. A high quality pilot study involving 23 infants undergoing circumcision showed benefits for music for the outcomes of heart rate, oxygen saturation and pain, while two low quality studies showed no difference. Three low quality studies involving infants undergoing heel prick showed some evidence that music might be beneficial.

One study involving 32 poorly feeding infants evaluated die use of non-nutritive sucking via a pacifier-activated lullaby and found a significant increase in oral feeding rates. In a study of 22 infants with chronic lung disease, there were no significant differences in physiological outcomes between those exposed to music and controls.

(Well my 9 month old girl likes music, she likes to listen to it will drinking her milk in the bottle. Although this article is for newborn.)