Would You pierce Your Babies Ears?

[jellybrain]

There was a phone in on Radio 2 at lunchtime asking the above question. A woman had been in a shop and seen a parent holding down a clearly terrified child (6 months or so) who was having her ears pierced, she was quite justifiably horrified. Those in favour argued their babies looked cute. One woman said her daughter had very little hair and people mistook her for a boy (she had ears pierced at 2) er whats wrong with a dress, something pink or just girls clothes if you're that concerned?
As you can probably guess I am against it babies and toddlers can't give their consent. It made me mad to hear parents saying that their dds looked cute or really pretty . Yes babies are cute but, they aren't fashion accessories . Of course there is a safety risk too.
Ok rant done over to you lot now.

Definatly not, I have loads of piercings, facial and otherwise, but I chose to have those!

I used to get quite upset when pg and people joked to me "Oh, the baby will come out pierced astho the fact that I have piercings will affect my children! Idiots!

If/when my children ask to have their ears done I would do it without a second thought but it should be a personal choice.

As someone has already said, babies are not fashion accessories and if people can't see the abundance of pink and frills on my daughter then they must have had their brains pierced if you ask me!!!!

Rang over... restoring love and harmony!

Have to admit my own ignorance and say that I don't really know where it comes from, but it is still extremely common in all Indian families, chavs, middle class and upper class included! Jewellery is rather a big thing in India, and quite often love is expressed with jewellery. Babies are often gifted quite a lot of gold jewellery, and you will often see very young babies wearing bracelets, necklaces, earrings..the works. It's considered quite pathetic to not actually wear at least some jewellery all the time.

I could go on and on....but I won't.

No
DD can't anyway due to risk of infection (heart problem) but I would not

ugh

sorry havent replied earlier but i had to go get my flack jacket and crash helmet cos.....my 20 month old DD HAS HER EARS PEIRCED.

i know, i know. im a crule horrible evil parent who probably also sacrifices young lambs in my basement, blah blah bloody blah.

she wears tiny studs that have no removable back they screw on so that they dont come loose and she can choke. its something i new i wanted done and new she would have done at some stage and so figuered that it was best done at a young age when she would not realise what was happening, the pain is over within seconds and she would be young enough not to fiddle and therefore infect the peircing.

i am well aware of the arguments against and i agree with most of them. i chose however to make an informed individual and personal choice.

so come on, bring it on....im ready for ya.
lol

what if your dd is totally against all types of body piercing when she is older?

I wouldn't - I don't like to see babies & very young children with pierced ears.

Oh and could i just say it really irritates me that you all scream and shout about us horrid chav mums who peirce our babies earings but if (like poppadom) says she has her Dd's ears peirced you say " oh thats ok cos its cultural?"

your arguments agianst peircings involve the parent removing choice, it causing pan,....etc etc. are those points less valid becasue the child is asian/african/martian????

GRRRR. im sure your Dd looks lovely with her earings in Poppadom....maybe we should discuss places in which we can practice our sadistic rituals.

then misdee. she can happily take them out and the hole will not need be seen again.

fattiemumma, why did you want it done though? I will join you in that basement!

but she will have a scar, and after that long tyhe hole will never close fully.

no, no i would not.

Much as I hate to go with the flow!!! I have to admit I really hate to see children/babies with pierced ears - it looks a bit Vicky Pollard Chavtastic to me.

I probably wouldnt allow it until they hit their teens (and then only if they begged)

That word chav again........and 'white trash' somewhere.

Sorry don't mean to be the chav police, but I just think that term stinks.

Bit like Dino meself - don't particularly like it, don't mind other pple doing it - don't think its says anything too much about them........

Agree with you there, Fattiemuma. we are either both evil parents inflicting our choices on our hapless kids, or we are not.

The hole will never close up fully. I had my ears pierced at 8 years old & my Mum caught the earing & split my ear slightly, while washing my hair. I had my ears re-pierced, but even now 25 years later, I still have 2 holes in each ear.

I have no problem with other people piercing their babies ears btw... not my kids after all. I went a bit ranty because of the small prejudice peeps show towards me for being pierced astho I am gunna start punching holes all over my little babies!

Ear piercings don't generally leave scars tho.. and if they do they are sooo tiny.

mmmmmmm stay and have an argument or watch socceraid in bed?

think ill go back to bed, must be going soft in my old age

I dont particularly like seeing mothers walk round in expensive clothes while their children are in buggies without even socks and shoes...and no im not talking about us chav mums, im talkign about the lentil weaving, organic eating, boden wearing mums who waltz around Wimbledon village.

BUT i dont judge them because of it.

i think if your able to get so worked up about something that has n affect on you, certianly cannot come close to neglect/abuse/violence towards said child then WTF are you all getting so angry about.

Ooh and yes i also get a little tired of people describing any paretning style that they disagree with as "chav"!!
shall we start to also name anyone who disagree's with buying on organic food or some other such action as "snob"? no because i think a fair few of you would get pretty annoyed at that.

Im happy to discuss my decision to peirce if someone wants a genuine discussion or to actually HEAR my point of view but at least if you are going to offer an argument have the bloody backbone to stick to it.

No arguing Im too full after my chinese for conflict

But why fattiemumma? Did you think it looked nice?

hmmmmmmmz. so ear piercing talk upsets you?

i have had another peircing today. it bloody well hurts and i have taken painkillers. i remember the uncomfortable pain of having ears pierced and not being to lay on my side to sleep as the pain would make me cry out. My dd3 will have a nasty big scar on her head from a fall at the weekend, to see her in pain just breaks my heart, and to cause her pain to stick bits of metal in her ears, well i just cant do it. My 6yr old dd1 wont ask for her ears to pierced as she knows it hurts. any piercing i have had done, if my kids ask if it hurts then i tell them it does. because it does.

Well said misdee! What did you get done?

No chance, the florets will have to wait till they're at least 14 yo.

Theres a change in roles, me being nice and neutral and Misdee charging in there!

my dd had her ears peirced at age 7 on her insistence. I didin't want it done particularly having no views on the rights and wrongs = only concerened that she wouldn't look after the piercing properly but all her friends had had it done and she felt left out. She is also very wimpy and I was convinced that she would chicken out at the last minute but,no ,s he went through with it.

now, 2 years later, she still has the same earings in that were put in when her ears were pierced which are tiny gold studs with a lavender stone and I must admit they do look pretty, discreet and not chavvy or vulgar at all.