When the Infanti triplets – Ethan Steele, Cole Sterling and Dominic Fortune –
were 3 weeks old, they had their first surgery, an outpatient procedure. They
were circumcised.
"After spending two weeks in the NICU at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center, they were discharged," says their father, Steve Infanti, director of public relations for the university's Smeal College of Business. "The NICU surgeons do not perform these due to the more pressing major surgeries that they have to do each day on infants."
For his own comfort, try to keep him off of his stomach as much as possible. |
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So the procedure – completed with the use of a local anesthetic – was done on an outpatient basis at Centre County Community College in State College, Pa.
Having to care for not one, but three, little boys forced Steve and his wife, Catherine, a special education teacher, to quickly become experts at the care of circumcision. "Basically, we were told to apply the ointment and to cover with a gauze bandage each time we change a diaper," Infanti says. "Since we were new to parenting, I had the nurse demonstrate on my little finger, just to get the idea."
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