For those who pierce their baby's ears...

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Would you see it as okay to pierce their nose? Eyebrow? Tongue? Why is it okay to stab a needle through the ear lobe, when presumably most people would be horrified by any other piercing on a baby?!

How about you do that, Rather than say I got my babies ear pierced, When I didnt.

Lovely - it's obvious coddi wasn't accusing you of doing it to your children. She was highlighting that people wouldn't want to endure that pain as adults, yet would inflict it ON A BABY!!!

I pierced my two year old daughters ears. I would of had them done earlier had I got around two it.

It was 100% my choice and my decision.

But my daughter wanted them, understood what earrings were and stayed still to have them done, and DID NOT CRY!

I had my ears pierced at 3 months - have never even crossed my mind to think my parents violated my choice or body.

Seriously if my daughter doesn't want them in the future she only has to take them out.

It's actually no ones business what I do to my children unless they are being abused. And no one can say ear piercings are abuse.

No its not, Because she didnt say PEOPLE she said YOU!!

Also lot of infections and problems are caused by 'older children' or adults messing around with the piercing. Touching it or cleaning it.

I didn't clean my daughters piercing (big gasp) and it was perfectly fine, the toddlers body heals a lot faster, so it's safer to do the younger they are

Lovely22
chill out, it's an anonymous forum. If you haven't pierced your kids ears, there's absolutely no need to be bothered by my answer!

If you have and some comments made you think, then it's probably a good thing isn't it?

I couldnt care less if its an anonymous forum, You still said something I didnt say.
So I corrected you.

No its not, Because she didnt say PEOPLE she said YOU

She then said replace you with people. It's the fact that people inflict pain that they wouldn't want to endure onto a baby, that coddi was emphasising.

A 2 year old wanted them done? I'm not certain a 2 year old understood what it entailed beyond 'look pretty like mummy'.

Shes still said it user, Im not going to go round and round in circles with you and your new bestfriend so thats that.
Enjoy yourselves.

Lovely - if it's such a wonderful thing to do to a baby, why didn't you do it?

Lovely22
good grief, yes I did say it, sorry
I also quoted your own sentence, so you could see what my reply was about, and it wasn't as misleading as you make it sound.

YOU was used as a general you, not as YOU LOVELY22.

I don't think anyone really cares one way or another! It's still a barbaric practice, and you commenting that some adult wouldn't be able to bear it now makes it even worst!

Well I didn't do it because I had no daughters. Had I had a daughter I'd have had it done. I guess I wouldn't if I thought it would be very painful but then, like I say, my experience is that it isn't - at least not the way we do it in my gran's village (with a fine needle, two bits of cork and a cold potato if you're wondering).

I would not go as far as to say it's barbaric, yes times have changed but it's a choice at the end of the day

Well I think it is, that video was very upsetting imo. There's literally no need to upset a baby like that. Funny how non of the pro baby ear piercers passed comment on it.

Christ, here are some of the things my 2 year old has "wanted" to do today:

• pull all the books off the bookshelf on top of herself

• climb on her chair and balance precariously on the arm to reach things on her shelves that aren't toys

• get daddy's "sparkle" off the bathroom shelf (his razor)

• wriggle around in the cold wet mud because there were "chick chicks" under the tree (we live in zone 1 in a flat; there are no chick chicks for a radius of about 10 miles)

• eat a piece of sizzling hot cheese on toast before it had cooled down

• watch "bing" so close to the tv that it would give anyone a headache

• put on mummy's high heels and stagger down the hall

Surprisingly, she hasn't been allowed to do any of them!!

Yeah I love how people are saying their two year old wanted them. As if they have the capacity to fully understand what it is they are wanting when it comes to ear piercing! You know it is possible to say no occasionally. Two year olds tend to forget move on to the next thing pretty quickly.

I didn't say I had her ears pierced because she wanted them I said i did it because I wanted to and it was 100% my decision.

I am saying that my daughter also wanted them and yes I explained it would hurt and she had to stay still but she did understand that she would then have earrings like me. I agree she doesn't at the age of two have capacity to make that decision but I clear I made it.

She cries at most things like any other child but we were all amazed in Claire's that she behaved so well and didn't cry. She cried at her vaccinations, but not at this !

I can't think why it is not left to child to make their own decision when they are older.

It should be made illegal!

I honestly cannot see why a baby or toddler needs any adornment; they’re already gorgeous.

If I see a young child with pierced ears, I don’t think of their parents as being abusive, but I’m afraid I do question their intelligence.

My opinion on ear piercing changed when I walked into Claire's the other day and a roughly 6 year old was sat in the chair. When the piercer went to do her ears she chickened out and started to cry, only to have her mother pin her down to the chair and agressively tell her that she hadn't come all this way for her to not have them done. I had to walk out because the sound of the girls screams were making me feel sick. I don't understand why anyone would want to force a child to have something done that they can't decide for themselves.

Well I certainly wouldn't have my baby's ears done like that Delete but then that's not how its done in our lesser culture. I wouldnt have my 8 year olds ears done like that either, or my own. Maybe if the British were better ear piercers they'd be less of a problem?

Usually it is done for cultural reasons. I always find it quite offensive that a person from one culture would question the cultural norms of another in this manner. If it was a genuine question of 'why do you pierce' babies ears then fine but this has all the hallmarks of demanding one culture conform to another's standards/ expectations. The OP clearly is limited in their world view/ acquaintances/ friends because if this was not the case, they would simply ask instead of asking MN in this fashion.

Really shockers you question our intelligence if our children have ears pierced ?

Just because we choose to pierce our children's ears does not mean we are stupid or Chavey or any thing else

Really Shockers ? So you look at the vast majority of women across the Middle East, Central Asia, se Asia, South America and Africa and think they're a bit thick? And this is related to their earrings?