Hi Valerie, You will find MANY different opinions on this subject. What all of them have in common is that every parent has made the decision to have the surgery or not to have the surgery out of the love they had for their child. You are the only one to make that choice for her. I suggest you gather information like you are then pray on it. If you choose to have the surgery make sure you have a surgeon that is VERY familiar with this type of surgery. Make sure he/she wants what is best for the child. (ie: future sexual functioning.) My heart goes out to Danette and the many more women that were barbarically ruined. I am one of the mom's that had choosen to have the surgery done at 6months for my daughter. I did not have this board to come to at the time. She is three now, and has NO memory of the surgery. She got through it fine. Some of these girls have been effected barely and can escape surgery. Some have had a clitoris that looks like a penis. I was told at birth I DID have a boy. This is my OWN opinion of why I chose to have the surgery done for MY DAUGHTER. I am not here in anyway to debate someone about it. I am giving just another experience for you to go on. I chose to have it done because I did not want her to feel self conscience about her body. Puberty is a terrible thing to endure let alone add another obstacle of enduring everyone having to look at your ever changing body. I could not think of how to tell her in one breath, that she will have this monthly thing called a period, and in the next breath, we will need to create a vagina for all that to happen because you were not born with one. Yeash. I can remember not believing I was going to bleed once a month for the reason of reproducing. Ick, doing that with a boy! This whole issue of the surgery having to be done will come at a time when we are all be ready. Not when she is say 10 and we have to go over the birds and the bees and by the way we need to do this surgery ect. I don't think at say 10 years old she would really understand the whole medical jargon of why she looked the way she did at birth. I am a mom and I am just getting the whys down pat. I just did not want to count on her being that mature to take all that in and be ok with it. I pray I made the right choice for her amongst the million others I will make for her. I just think I wanted her mentally ok with it. I know I made the right decision because I made it out of the love I have for my daughter. I thought it was best for her. The rest is up to God. I know for a fact she does have some sensation. Remember if you do choose to have it done, they are not to mess with the clitoris if they do not have to. If they do make sure it is minimal work being done to preserve the sensation for adulthood. Good luck, and remember to pray on it.