Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Having a baby's ears pierced?

209 replies

MumOfOne92 · 05/02/2019 00:01

AIBU to think it's absolutely ridiculous to get a baby's ears pierced?

Each to their own but...

OP posts:
MitziK · 05/02/2019 22:30

One of my exes had the same opinion (being mostly that it was chavvy, but voiced in terms of violating a child's body and that it sexualised them). Said much the same about under 16s being allowed to wear makeup or nail polish (and that over 18s only did it to show they were 'up for it'), too.

He was circumcised as a baby purely because his parents thought it would be 'cleaner' and said that any son of his would have the same done. He also had an ear piercing.

All I can imagine is that the single piercing rendered him completely deaf to the shrieking cognitive dissonance.

Ghanagirl · 06/02/2019 11:26

@Seline
I’m so fed up with people making insensitive or racist comments then say “I can’t be racist as my husband is black, Chinese, etc. It doesn’t exempt you but I do feel concerned for the children.

Gth1234 · 06/02/2019 13:36

I thought it was illegal

MotherofDinosaurs · 06/02/2019 18:03

What kind of colossal bellend looks at a baby and thinks they would look better with some bits of metal stapled to their head? And anyone who would voluntarily inflict unnecessary pain on their own baby is a shit mum. It does hurt. Of course it hurts. Both the piercing and the healing. I think it's revolting and shouldn't be legal. I don't give a shit if it's cultural either.

mathanxiety · 07/02/2019 05:53

So at this point have we established that babies and young children have ears pierced pretty much all over the world?

But we still think that everyone else is out of step and/or needs to catch up with our more enlightened perspective?

Cultural imperialism, much?

ReaganSomerset · 07/02/2019 07:07

Lots of things happen all over the world. Doesn't mean we have to allow them to happen here.

mathanxiety · 12/02/2019 05:53

When something is done that is really not harmful and objections to it boil down to taste and perceptions based on class consciousness, then the question of whether to allow it or not is a bit ridiculous.

mediumbrownmug · 12/02/2019 06:32

I agree with Fixthebone, whom I've quoted below, as it certainly bears repeating. The risk of infection at that age isn't worth it, never mind the fact that ears do grow (and not always evenly) from infanthood to adulthood, and there's no guarantee that the holes will be even when the baby grows up. Then there's the pain your baby goes through, and the fact that the baby may pull on her ears and cause an infection or tearing. I see no reason to risk any of the above, as earrings provide no actual benefit.

"I think it's barbaric to have a baby's ears pierced.

About ten years ago, I spent an hour and a half doing chest compressions on a 6 week old, sticking intra-osseous needles into their femurs and trying to get them breathing again after they had had a cardiac arrest from staphylococcal septicaemia from an infected piercing.

I wish anybody considering this could hear the piercing screams of the mum stood behind me when we stopped attempts at resuscitating, it still haunts me to this day, almost more than anything I've seen since in my career, and I've seen things that should scar most people for life."

Aridane · 12/02/2019 16:48

I don't think this subject gets enough of an airing on Mumsent

Grin Grin

New posts on this thread. Refresh page