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Jewellery on a baby

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lotty34 · 23/03/2004 18:32

I guess this is down to personnal choice but what do you think about a baby wearing jewellery.

My daughter will be 1 next week and my Gran has bought her a very simple gold bracelet. I am not really sure what I think but my husband is horrified at it and is very against her wearing it. He says he thinks it looks cheap and tacky to put any jewellery on a baby. I agree with him to a point but a little bit of me thinks the braclet is harmless and looks quite pretty on her.

I guess the simple solution is for me to only put it on her when she is in the company of my Gran but it got me thinking about what people think of seeing jewellery on a baby.

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oliveoil · 24/03/2004 15:39

Not my Abi then, ah well. Sniff.

forestfly · 24/03/2004 15:39

Swampy

forestfly · 24/03/2004 15:40

Oh well, did you drink in the Nelson and Edgerton and Bakers then Olive

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oliveoil · 24/03/2004 15:42

I was a Red Lion (or was it White) girl, v classy joint near Hillgate.

forestfly · 24/03/2004 15:43

White!!!! He he

oliveoil · 24/03/2004 15:44

Is it still there? Not been to Stockport in ages.

JennH · 24/03/2004 20:40

Back on the topic. I never pierced my daughter's ears, but I don't think its horrid. And I will be doing them when she is 5 or 6 I think.
I worry about necklaces and bracelets catching

eddm · 24/03/2004 21:08

Had a great Oh my god did you really call your baby that moment the other day. This woman had written in to a magazine to boast that she'd called her baby Rhapsody, after her favourite song by Queen. And her surname was Rolfe! Imagine the playground in about five years time... and presumably her brothers will be Galileo, Figaro and Beelzebub...

Paula71 · 25/03/2004 22:31

Well one of the gang that frequents our nextdoor neighbours house has a little boy about the age of my ds twins (27 months) and he has his ears pierced!

It looks dreadful but not as bad as the "ned wear" she clothes him in!

stupidgirl · 25/03/2004 22:48

Jenn, again, not picking on you, well I am, but not in a nasty way () but don't you think it's for your dd to choose whether or not she wants her ears pierced???

I have 10 piercings myself, but would never dream od inflicting piercings on a child. It's personal choice. With my last peircing, which I did myself just after Xmas, I have only just managed to get rid of the infection, and I've been in pain for nearly 3 months with it. That was my choice. I wouldn't make the choice to put anyone else through that. Perhaps she won't want her ears pierced?

I went through a hippy phase and a goth phase.

JennH · 26/03/2004 13:12

stupidgirl (feels like i am insulting you)

Basically when she gets to 5/6 I will take her to have her ears pierced, if she tells me she doesn't want them then of course I won't do it. If she doesn't care either way i'll get them done. And if she asks for them once she is aged over 4 i will take her.

katierocket · 26/03/2004 13:15

yes Olive Oil it is!

katierocket · 26/03/2004 13:16

just scanned down - OMG - Oliveoil - we live 500 yards from priestnall school!

two · 26/03/2004 17:06

Hi there

bit late on this one and have only read original post but MIL bought a bracelet for my daughter but some deep prejudice in me groans!

gilding lily is what I feel

but maybe bring it out for gran - keeps her happy, no harm done!

mind you, have offered advice but have still not put bracelet on my dd - now aged 2.5!!!!!

xx

tallulah · 26/03/2004 21:26

I can't stand to see earrings on small children. I had my own ears pierced at 13 & haven't actually worn earrings since I was 14...

DD started going on about earrings at 14 & nose ring at 15 but fortunately was at a school with a very strict dress code & we said NO. Now she's 18 & has gone off the idea altogether. (Just as well, since I can't stop her now).

(Tried the chav site. Got a Whitney Britney, a Dean Damien and a Kai Damien )

stupidgirl · 26/03/2004 22:31

But Jenn, why? What do you get from it? Why do you want to have holes put in her ears? I don't understand why you would choose to do that to someone else, what's in it for you?

JennH · 26/03/2004 23:13

Because I think it looks nice, and as her mum it is up to me.
If she does not want it done of course i would not force the issue. Just remember my friend piercing someones ears in the girls loos when we were 12 because her mum would not let her have them done.
I would prefer to have them done when she is a bit younger. I had mine done at 6 and i loved it thought i was a real princess.

stupidgirl · 26/03/2004 23:31

I didn't get my first set of ear piercings until I was 14, and one of the main attractions was that my mum disapproved. A few months later I went and got my nose pierced against my mums wishes. My parents didn't speak to me for 3 days. But that was part of it. I was asserting myself - rebelling. I think it would have taken the shine off if my mum had been happy or even encouraged me to do it.

nutcracker · 26/03/2004 23:33

I think we are def in the minority here Jen

JennH · 26/03/2004 23:44

At least someone agrees with me nutty

carla · 27/03/2004 00:03

Can't believe all of this - not read all of it but when dd1 sees the earring stand in town and gets all interested, I just explain that they're for big people who have holes in their ears. Amazingly, for her, it's left at that. Don't want to offend anyone at all, but I hate to see little ones wearing that stuff. (But I hate it on me, too!- tho' in my youth I used to wear budgie cages on my ears

papillon · 27/03/2004 07:33

re the chavscum.co.uk site

Storm Damien for a boy
and abit spooky for a girl
Dawn Whitney
(my middle name is Dawn)

Wow stupidgirl 10 piercings -- where are they dare I ask

I used to have some myself in uummm various places!!

that said.. I am not getting my dd pierced (anywhere!) she can bring the idea herself at a very later date.

misdee · 27/03/2004 07:47

sorry, but i think the age of 5/6 is far to young to be making a descision on ear piercing. me and dh have already agreed that dd's can have their ears done at 12, anything thing else they will have to wait till they are 16, 18 for tattoes. i had my ears pierced at 12, and had a reaction to the metal, tried again a year or so later and the same thing happened. but then i found a place that used stainless steel when i was 15 and got 2 sets done and they were fine. since then i've had my nose pierced, eyebrow, tongue and lip. but i am an adult and all of those were my descision. i'm not actually keen on my own pierced ears, but ithink that because of the the hassle it took to get studs to stay without causing reactions.

if you asked my daughter now if she wanted her ears pierced she's say no. she is 4years old. she is a princess with her clip-on earrings and her tiaras, she doesnt want real earrings. my other dd who is 18months old has curly hair. when she was a little baby, i had a woman telling me constantly to get her ears pierced. i always told her no.i honestly think if i had left her to look after dd2 she would have gone and pierced her ears, like that friends episode.

Thomcat · 29/03/2004 12:33

I personally think that jewellery on children just looks wrong and personally I don't like it one little bit. Lottie had loads of jewellery bought for her when she was baptised and I've put it all away in her box. They were all lovely presents she's just not wearing any of it. The only jewellery she'll be wearing are fun beads and dressing up play jewelly if she wants to. I would never ever even consider getting her ears pierced. When she's over 12, if not older, and asks me then that's fine, it would be her decision to make when she's old enough to make it.

mez75 · 29/03/2004 12:36

I was shopping yesterday and was horrified to see a baby no more than 8mths olds wearing a signet ring What is all that about???

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