Babies and piercings

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I saw someone today who had an 8 month old little girl with her ears pierced. Am I alone in thinking that it's wrong to do that to a baby?

I know it's only a quick procedure but I'm a bit shocked that people still do this. AIBU?

My first piercing I was months old (definitely cultural)

Growing up in decided to wait until my daughter asked to do it herself. She was 8 and was so fucking traumatised I wish I had done it when she was a baby.

DM would say that piercing a baby's ears is "common" but I'm not that brave

Lol oh the good old piercing thread

I had a council baby lol

People dress babies on pretty clothes, purely for cosmetic reasons, are we not allowed to do that now?

I'm not a fan and personally wouldn't do it to my baby.

Can someone who has called it common or council justify why they think so?

I am a council baby and I have a council baby - haven't pierced him yet but I'm thinking he'd look cool with a neck tattoo

My mum also used to put blusher on me as a toddler to make my cheeks rosier < waits for the mc mums to give themselves a collective wedgie hoiking their judgey pants >

I don't think putting a baby in a dress is the same as putting holes in their ears...I also can't remember saying it wasn't allowed

As said- each to their own! It was just my initial opinion.

Seriously airmiles fuck off with your council comment

Seamus

Seamus- just FYI, I've heard cheek pinching is better then blusher for lovely rosey cheeks!

My mum used to clean cuts and grazes with a liberal spraying of impulse or what ever other bastard perfume she had to hand!

Now that was cruel

I do know some people say a girl needs her ears piercing or "how else would you know she was a girl"?!

Well, it's not a very middle or upper class thing to do. When I was in school, a long time ago, it was the council house kids who had pierced ears, not the daughters of teachers and doctors.

I wouldn't personally.

I had my ears pierced at about 18 months with no ill effects (unlike all the other piercings I went on to get as a teen), so it isn't really from a moral standpoint I wouldn't do it, I just don't like how it looks on very little girls.

Honestly I'm not offended ( was a bit hmm at the council comment but I'm used to things like that now ) I find threads like this quite amusing.

Different strokes for different folks an all that jazz.

Personally, I'm not a fan of babies with pierced ears for fashion. Culture is one thing, fashion is quite another. Didn't someone recently label it child abuse?

"It's a "bit council" hmm What's wrong with living in a council house then?"

Nothing I was brought up in one.

So being a bit council is now a culture is it? thank you that has tickled me.

Yeah OP, but it wouldn't have lasted all day - and I was a right soft arse who would have cried - like I did when my ears were pierced

My favourite is when the parents are posting on Facebook about how they're gutted that their babies are going for their life saving jabs but are happy to take them for a pointless set of piercings!

I came from a professional family.
We are all educated to degree level and beyond and are home owners.
In my family we pierce our girls ears so I do not agree that is not a middle or upper class thing MrsLeighhalfpenny.

Stuff the culture - it is just plain wrong.

Where did I say it was a culture?

Stuff culture