I’m not sure what happened to that last one.

I get so confused when you all refer to your girls having surgury.  My daughter is 21, SWCAH.  She had a "clitoral recession" at 9 months of age.  Until I found this websit just a couple weeks ago I had never heard of "Prader"scores but when my daughter was born we believed she was a boy for a couple of days.  She was born with all female internal organs but her vagina was covered her entire life until last month.  We inquired about having her problems repaired (including a penis-sized clitoris recessed under her front pubic skin) periodicly throughout her growing years and were repeatedly told that it was not recommended until she decided to get married.  I thought this a little old fasioned considering the world we live in today, but we are a very conservative family anyway so it was not a huge issue until she was 16 or so and I requested to be referred to someone who could seriously address the issue.  The University hospital urologist we were referred to at that time asked her if she was having sex and since she was not he would not consider the surgery(ies).  It was so frustrating!.  Finally, she got her own doctor to referr her to someone who referred her to another who referred her to three more and finally found a team of doctors who could be convinced that  it was important to her.  Now she is recovering from the surgery as an adult, off work, and ready to embark on a whole new life.  What we wonder is do doctors help girls like her in childhood now?  We would both strongly recommend it.  My beautiful little girl is now 21 and just now feeling like she may be able to swim with others in a swimsuit, not have doctors look surprised at her genitalia, and maybe even have a boyfreind type relationship and eventually think about marriage.  If they will help your little girl, ...Yes! By all means, do it now.  We don’t even remember the breif pain she endured at 9 mos.  We do remember her growing years of insecurity and feeling so different.