Washington – Due to a new study, doctors are more likely to use anesthesia for newborn circumcisions than they were eight years ago.
At one time, doctors believed that infants were too young to experience the pain of circumcision or did not remember it, but more recent medical research has shown that babies are no different than adults in this regard, said Dr. Daniel Yawman, lead author of the anesthesia study.
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About 1 million newborns are circumcised in U.S. hospitals every year, making it the country’s most common operation.