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'''Bleeding''' and hemorrhage is an ever-present risk of every surgery.
[[Circumcision]] is amputative surgerythat severs blood vessels, so there is always risk of bleeding and hemorrhage from circumcision.
The vast majority of circumcisions performed in the United States are medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcisions performed on newborn infants in which there is no medical indication or disease of any kind present.
Newborn infants, which weigh only a few pounds , have very little blood in their tiny bodies. Loss of only a slight amount of blood can and does cause exsangination and ''hypovolemic shock''. Losing over 2.4 ounces of blood may cause death.
== What the AAP says ==