perhaps I am

[VajazzHands]

I didn't think I was but have just seen a thread mentioning hidious baby headbands.

Basically DH's family have a big small problem with stickyouty ears. A few members of his family have had to have their ears pinned as a result

DD (3 months old) who looks like my mini me seems to have only taken one trait from DH's family and they have just appeared all of a sudden. I was thinking of getting some of those head bands to keep her ears down to see if while she was young and pliable it would help to "train" her ears to stay down?

Dh thinks its wrong. I know the head bands are kind of horrible but I think doing it now while she won't be bullied for it makes sense? AIBU to "home pin" my kids ears?

Hmm. If they are hideous jobbies with enormous floral effects then YABU. BUt if they are relatively plain and are doing a job, then I think not so bad.

HTH!
[bugrin]

Woudl not be be floral wedding facinator arrangments

According to my Mother, people actually used to use sellotape on babies sticky out ears!

Do it at home when no one else can see! You dont have to tell anyone what you are up to [buwink]

Have you seen these www.earbuddies.co.uk/ might be more effective.

Dunno about sellotape but I was threatened with large rubber bands - I reckon baby headbands are a lot kinder!

Aren't you meant to do it as soon as they're born? I dont think a 3 month old babies earsare plible enough....I have sticky out ears....when I was 13 I got very self consious and made a doctors appointment...went on my own and arranged for them to be pinned back!

A letter seeking my Mums permission came months later and she refused to sign.... am so glad she did! I look wrong when I pull them back...leave the babies ears as they are.

No mousanon! Never heard of them before! Thank you, slighly concerned about the adhesive tape though but I will look in to them and see how it works. My sil told me that the nurses where dd was born taped her ears down while she was in scbu! Apparenlty it really hurt her taking the tape off and she was premature!

But is that just because you are used to them that way skintingfluffy or do you think they look genuinely weird pulled back?

I am not a particulary vain person at all, but I do know that some kids get bullied over them and they are starting to proper pop out of her head so I am worried about teasing later in life. (she is currently the cutest baby ever so not really a problem now

God, I wish someone had given me earbands when I was a baby. I hate mine. Do you think they work on adults? [busmile]

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Are those meant to be ear bands!

Deffo worth looking into anything that would reduce the possibility of an operation in the future. Any op like pinning back would require a general anaesthetic, which always carries a risk.

I taped my DS's ears back when he was young. His ears are lovely now. My mother wore a hat for the first few months as her ears stuck out. They don't now.

Do it. I have a cousin who has very sticky out ears and they don't look good, I have to say. They poke out through her hair. She has been teased for it as was a boy at my DC's school. Called radar or satellite.