Foreskin on uncircumcised penis care?
I am a first time mom to a 4 month old baby boy. We chose not to circumcise. I was under the impression that the way to take care of his penis was to basically treat it like a finger when washing and never pull back on the foreskin.
At our four month visit the doctor pulled his foreskin back and told me that she could tell I wasn’t doing that because it looked like the skin was fusing together over the penis. It did not look like that to me and I felt really uncomfortable when she pulled the skin back. She said I should be doing this once a day but not in a forceful way. Again, I was under the impression that I should not be doing that ever and that as he grew up it would loosen on its own.
I have had negative feelings about the pediatrician before, like with her opinions around breastfeeding and getting upset with me when I told her we were combo feeding and how she made me feel like a failure of a mom. I also feel she has been pushy about circumcision, where when I said that we were not planning to she said it is cleaner to.
I want to find a new pediatrician for him for reasons other than the foreskin advice, but because of that I was wondering what the protocol is that is best. Should I be pulling back his foreskin at all?