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retract my son??  post #1 of 10 Thread Starter   I feel super
dumb posting this. I have an intact 5-year-old and his ped has
intact boys and never touches his penis. We have had zero
issues. I don't do anything to his penis and no one else has
either. He has had to be cathed and that went fine, they pulled
his foreskin only enough to get the cath in, I have yet to see
him retract at all...   I now have an intact 6-month-old. We say
a NP at the peds office that I adore (she is super pro-breast-
feeding and a lactation consultant, isn't obsessed with weight
gain, supports co-sleeping etc.) When she examined him at six
months she did something that stressed me and I don't know if it
was retraction. She took two fingers up by the base of his penis
(not near the tip at all) and quickly, gently, pulled up towards
his scrotum. His glans w