Baby with pierced ears

[mrsbeeton999]

School mum friend had baby in April and I’ve just noticed she’s had her ears pierced. Scrolling back through her Facebook they were pierced at beginning of July when piercing was still not open. This is seriously bad isn’t it? I’m a bit judgy about babies with pierced ears anyway so this might be clouding my opinion but having a new babies ears pierced illegally during a pandemic has really annoyed me

I was thinking of the assumption of moral superiority that is such a feature even of post-Imperial British culture.

Haha the irony from you living in America. The beacon of superiority.

Struggling to think of a British cultural norm which involves non consented permanent paining marking of a child.

Feeding them freezer shit from super young age when they can't know better so they end up obese?

My wife comes from a culture where they pierce babys ears, my wife has 2 earrings in, she cant take them out, her mum fucked up the back!

This discussion came up when we had our little one, my wife wanted them pierced, i didnt want her to have them pierced! I think it looks tacky on a baby and believe its unnecessary pain on the baby! And id rather our little on make her own choice on having them pierced!

So we agreed not to have them pierced when she wants them done, but only if she asks

I don’t like pierced ears on babies at all but I find the idea of going through someone’s Facebook to pinpoint the date it happened to prove some kind of a point just as batshit as piercing the ears in the first place.

I may live here but I'm not American, @Staplemaple.
Your comment shows you understand that a 'beacon of superiority' is not necessarily all that superior, all the same. You just don't want to apply the implications to the moralistic hand wringing here.

Travel opens your eyes to the different ways other people parent, most of which, while unfamiliar and not necessarily what you would choose for your own children, are not harmful and nobody's business but the parents' own.

Mumsnet Bingo

I don’t understand your logic. You saw the baby had pierced ears and then took time out of your life to scroll back through this friends FB to see when they were done and then made a post about it? 😳

@zigaziga

I don’t like pierced ears on babies at all but I find the idea of going through someone’s Facebook to pinpoint the date it happened to prove some kind of a point just as batshit as piercing the ears in the first place.

This.

YABU. Not your child mind you own business. I’d pierce my baby’s ears.

Why doesn't anyone question their culture if it involves inflicting pain and an irrecoverable injury to their (mainly girls) children?

An irrecoverable injury? Oh my days some people are so dramatic!

It's actually "recoverable". The hole closes. My mum's did when she didn't wear earrings for a while. She had ears pierced as an adult as she didn't have them done as a baby (one of the few).

I was 4 when I had mine done and had begged my parents for weeks (my older cousin (by a year) had had hers done and I wanted to be like her!) my parents told me I had to wait another month and if I still wanted them done I could. They thought I'd forget about it, not this girl!
My DH and I have just had this discussion as we had DD at the end of June. We've decided she can have them done (if she wants and asks) when she's old enough to go to a proper studio (not using a gun!) Which is usually around age 10 (with parental consent).

Are you not embarrassed to have a friend that would even consider ear piercing for a child under 12

I would delete her off FB quick before nice friends notice

@ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN 😂

I’m a bit judgy about babies with pierced ears

Not your business to be 'a bit judgy', (awful English, try judgemental). When my daughter was born in a Med country my friends were shocked that her ears weren't pierced in hospital, apparently it's the norm for that to be done in the local hospitals as opposed to the dear Military places.

Just because something is cultural doesn't mean it's right. Why doesn't anyone question their culture if it involves inflicting pain and an irrecoverable injury to their (mainly girls) children?

'Irrecoverable injury'?? It's hilarious that the hyperbole squadron is out in force! Has no-one ever left their earrings out for a few days and voila, the hole's healed.

Each to their own.
Personally, I think it's horrendously tacky and totally unnecessary.
I have family members who love it, and the earlier they can get their kids ear pierced the better.
That's up to them, not me. Just like they think it's weird that I don't get my kids ears pierced.
Wouldn't life be boring if we were all the same!?

Wow the lady who started this thread even created a petition

Ha, good luck I'm not signing it

Mumsnet hysteria at its finest.

One thing I have just done is sign a petition to ban ear piercing in babies so I have achieved that from this thread as it’s made me think about it more.

What a ridiculously stupid thing to do.
So the families take kids abroad to have it done, or parents/ close family do it themselves.
Do gooders always make things worse.
Well you and others who can't mind their own big trunks will be responsible for babies getting ear infections. Hopefully the petition will be laughed out. Idiots.