Don't do it Karen! It's your duty as a mother to protect your baby from this kind of harm.
Ask your husband why he wants to remove half his son's penile skin including its most sensitive bit - is it simply because this was inflicted on him and he doesn't want to see his son have something he hasn't got? Not a very good reason to hurt a baby is it?
Even if you have your son's foreskin amputated under general anaesthetic he will experience pain and discomfort during the healing period which in some babies takes weeks. He won't always cry - we know that babies may internalise their distress more than adults. He may get ulceration of the unnaturally exposed tip of his penis - this is very common. It can result in a narrowing of his wee hole which may need surgical correction (this occurs in 5-10% of cut babies according to one Paediatric Surgeon who's just published a paper in the South African Medical Journal) and will make him more prone to urethritis as an adult. And when he reaches adulthood he'll read about this subject in newspapers, medical journals and on the internet and realise you've deprived him of large numbers of his sexual nerve endings, and also a part which would have stimulated his female partner. He will ask, why on earth did you do that to me?
In fact by the time Skyler reaches 20 years old, forced circumcision may well have been banned in North America (as the UN says, it violates a range of human rights including the right to dignity, bodily integrity and personal autonomy), which will make him even more aware of what he's lost.
The simple answer is, just don't do it! If he did want as an adult to be cut, which is highly unlikely, he can choose it then, and the whole experience would be much less distressing because he will be totally in control of every aspect of it.
Please read more at at websites cirp and circumstitions, and suggest your husband tries foreskin restoration so you can both become aware of how much fun a foreskin is.
