Vitamin K before circumcision? A Mohel's Perspective

 I am often asked if I will do a circumcision if the baby hasn't had a Vitamin K shot. [Hospitals tell parents different things, and not all parents want to give their child a vitamin K shot]

The answer is YES. And here is why.

More important and more complicated than the circumcision itself is the wound-care which follows. Circumcisions usually heal well, and while it sometimes takes a few weeks or even months for things to look "normal," none of that will happen if the baby's immediate post-op bleeding isn't tended to. Which is why a mohel's training spends much more time on bleed-control than on the mechanics of circumcision.

We have been circumcising our babies for THOUSANDS of years, and have developed excellent methods for wound-care, none of which ever took into consideration whether a baby had a Vitamin K shot.

Metzitzah with a tube - unsafe?

Over the last few months I've had a good number of phone calls from people looking for a mohel who "does not perform metzitzah." 

I have a whole page dedicated to Metzitzah, as it has been a controversial issue due to a few bad stories that have come out of New York in recent decades. Some argue that the stories were exaggerated and made far worse by the news outlets (they used shoddy evidence and jumped to conclusions without a real investigation), while some argued that the stories were absolutely 100% true.