To think pierced ears on a baby look horrible.

[Tealady1983]

So on fb tonight and a old school friend had pictures of her 3month ish baby with her ears pierced am I the only one that think this looks awful and that it's a bit cruel?

yanbu ,people should wait until the child is old enough to ask , it their body after all .

I don't like the way it looks, not because it's 'common', but because it is evidence that a baby has been put through unnecessary pain. I also agree with hackmum's point about gender identity. The most stupid argument I've heard for piercing a baby's ears is that it's better to do it whilst they are little so they won't remember the pain, as if it is inevitable or compulsory for females to get their ears pierced sooner or later. Why not give people choice when they are old enough?

(not representative of my opinions, btw - just helping with bingo)

I just had my DDs ears pierced she was 3.2 years.

She had been asking since we visited my Dhs family in Feb/March- he is from a culture where girls ears are pierced as tiny babies, it is VERY rare to see a girl past around 5 months with out them so on seeing all her cousins with ears pierced she wanted them too. I was also wary of one of my SILs doing taking her to get them pierced when we next visit so at least that will be avoided now!

I told DD exactly how they pierced ears (over and over again for about 2 weeks!), with a 'pinch thing' which they put the ear ring in and the the push it through her ear to make a hole for the ear ring. I said that it would hurt and sting and that she would probably cry. She asked if there would be blood and I said no probably not and said that I would have to clean them with special cleaning stuff after and if I didn't they would be sore and she would need to go to the doctor. She still said she wanted it done so I took her- she cried for about 2 mins after and then forgot about it!

There is a little girl who visits our business very regularly with her mum she is 3 now but when she was 6 months her mum came in with her and had just been to get her ears pierced TWICE. So at 6 months she had 2 earrings in each ear, looks horrible and I can't believe a shop actually agreed to pierce a babies ears twice.

YANBU it's fucking horrible. Chavs ahoy .

If this forum was a U.S one, however, I would be burnt at the stake. They love pierced ears almost as much as circumcision.

Have we had culture yet?

Wow, gross generalisations about americans so soon?

I call shenanigans - someone's cherry picked their card

I call shenanigans - someone's cherry picked their card

Huh?

Never heard such toss about americans, Fid

Cherry picked meaning they have chosen their bingo card, shenanigans meaning I think someone is up to high jinx

The cheating monkeys

Ah. Corruption.

Fo'sho'

MN bingo has been broken, I tell thee

I'm covered in tattoos (which I love) the one thing I regret is getting my ears pierced. If you choose not to wear them the hole is still there

Armani come orf it

Chavs ahoy, ugly and common bit strong worded in my mind. I had no choice when my ears were pierced at two months old. I'm going back nearly forty years ago and all of my sisters had it done at the same age.
I suppose it's personal choice from the adult but if I had a dd I would wait until she was old enough to decide for herself.

So at 6 months she had 2 earrings in each ear, looks horrible and I can't believe a shop actually agreed to pierce a babies ears twice.

Out of curiosity, why is one OK and two is horrible and unbelievable?

Good grief clouding the core issue with hapless Americans and British chavs is as silly as citing culture/religion/ bollocks.

It's inflicting unnecessary pain in another human being that hasn't consented for no sensible/medical reason.

Anyway this topic has been done to death on mumsnet.

I don't, I had mine done young and I don't remember it. I got both DDs done young too and neither do they. My cousins little girl got her ear done at 4 - just before she started school and yes - you read that right ear, just the one. She wouldn't sit to have the other one done until she was 7 so went around with 1 ear pierced for ages. Also older kids tend to play with them and get them infected like some of my friends kids but mine have been fine because they are used to it.

Armani come orf it

Eh?

As I've said before I had mine done when I was 2. I have no regrets at all and I'm glad my mum had it done. She was considered a bit odd by the family for waiting so long to be honest.

DM comes from a country where babies ears are routinely pierced. Her DPs chose not to, and I have huge respect for that. They were very forward thinking and feminist in other ways, as well - encouraging higher education, travel and the wearing of trousers (this was frowned upon by slder people, as well) for their daughters.

I got my eats pierced in my twenties. I know DM is a bit disappointed, but at least it was was my choice.

Personally, I won't be getting my daughters ears pierced. When she is old enough to decide for herself, and old enough to go and get them done properly, she can have them done. Until then, really, the only sort of place that is able to do them on such young children are jewellers with a gun. On top of the usual 'it looks ridiculous' etc, this is the real sticking point for me. A gun pushes a blunt piece of metal through the lobe, it does not 'pierce'. This is a trauma and can cause a multitude of problems. A gun also cannot be placed in an autoclave to be cleaned. The amount of bacteria on those things alone is a health hazard. And finally, I really don't want someone who, at most, went on a one day course to teach them how to put a hole in my child's body, and was probably taught by someone who also went on a one day course to learn. To use an argument listed earlier, I would let an unqualified dentist put braces on my child, why would I let a shop assistant do a cosmetic procedure on my child.

Me and my OH are fairly heavily tattooed and pierced, him more so as he works in the body modification industry, and I am totally against babies having their ears pierced.
I've had my lobes pierced twice now and had horrendous problems with them and actually found it more painful than most of my other piercings! They've never healed (this time I've had them done for 8 months and they're still very sore) even though I have followed the aftercare routine down to a T. This is from an adult who knows not to touch them or twiddle them, not a child with mucky paws who knows no better.
If someone pierced a dogs ears the first thing people would say is that it's unnessecary, painful and cruel because the dog could not give it's consent. There'd be outrage! It's fine if it's a baby though

It looks vile

Really the same as the religious circumcision argument. I think that's cruel, mutilating a baby like that just because your God put a foreskin there only for it to be removed because it's unclean? ok.
Piercing a baby's ears? I had mine done at 2. But I wouldn't do it to my chidren, DP would disagree and would hate it.
We all have our opinions on what is cruel and what isn't.