Well..I watched the Discovery Channel, then had a discussion with my hubby. Then came on the message board and ironically read all the posts on the message "Surgery for CAH". Boy...did it hit home. There seems to be quite a bit of grown women who have had surgery for their ambiguous genetalia, who as adults are furious at the thought that their parents did that to them, and it should be up to them. My hubby and I both said that I hope Amanda doesn't grow up to be bitter about the whole thing. Some are hermaphrodites, but some have the same genital abnormalities as Amanda. I am going to try to find out what percentage of those irate women have CAH and had the surgery after the diagnosis. Amanda had her surgery at 8 months old. I never questioned whether or not to do it. But she was severely virilized, and I just assumed that she was genetically a female so she should have surgery to appear that way. Knowing full well, it wouldn't really make a difference if we didn't do it, but that it should be done around a year of age. CAH was still new to us...and I trusted in the doctors. I'm going off to hunt some info up...I'll post if I find something interesting. Eileen