Peircing babies ears- how young?

[kayjaybabe]

i want to get my DDs ears peirced she is 5 weeks old but conicidently today was my due date (5 weeks premi) im not sure if that makes a difference.

What age do you normally get their ears peirced? As i dont want to do it when she is too young but i dont want to leave it to late as the later the more painfull for her!! :)

I had mine pierced in hospital the day I was born. It is normal in my country. However, if I had a DD these days, I would not do it before they are 13 or so. It is an absolute pain having to take them off for PE all the time, plus sometime the piercing gets infected if you wear fancy earrings, etc. It depends on where you live, but if is not the norm in your country, I would just wait.

I don't understand the outrage. I am 8 months pregnant and just got my baby's ears pierced in utero. That way she'll look all pretty when she's born.

It is a cultural thing, which is why, at the moment, it is called chavvy.

I wouldn't get a baby's ears pierced. Even Claire's accessories won't do them until the baby is at least four months old and able to sit up.

Littlepumpkinpie - it is safe to go swimming a few days after having ears pierced. My girls went swimming three days after having their ears pierced, I cleaned them well straight afterwards, and they have never had any problems.

I don?t let them wear dangly earrings, or any earrings other them silver or gold.

I don't know how you can look at a beautiful, perfect little baby and think about how soon you can push some metal through bits of it. :(

I am another (if your post is actually real) for no. It looks horrendous on a baby/infant/child under secondary school age. Yuk. Very tacky. Why you would want to inflict pain on a baby is beyond me. If you want tacky, dress her in Burberry. At least that can be chucked in the bin.

Another one voting 'troll' here...

BUT... my husband, and therefore more significantly my mother-in-law, comes from a culture (West Indian) where having your babies' ears pierced is a cultural norm. Babies and young girls also wear silver bangles which are replaced when they become too tight. There was confusion, followed by outrage, when I made a very conscious decision not to allow my baby duaghter to have her ears pierced. Because we live here, and not in the West Indies, I do think it can look 'chavvy' (although I'm beginning to detest that word). And I cried so much when DD got her jabs there's no way I could have let anyone hurt her by piercing her ears. Reconsidered it this year when she hit 5 and still decided no.

However, I do not make judgements on the rest of the family who do choose to pierce their babies ears, it is entirely their decision, and it is completely normal there. Therefore I am sure that in many places the 'cultural argument' is legit, and, please, ear-piercing cannot be compared with facial incisions. You are blowing your own argument out of the water by drawing such a ridiculous 'parallel'.

My parents pierced my ears when I was 6 months old (cultural thing) but, as was the tradition, just pushed the earrings through my lobes (although babies' lobes really are very soft, you know).

But that's not my culture now and I personally will wait until dd decides for herself she wants to (after she's 11), mostly because it's a real pain to look after them and to always have to consider your ears when playing sports etc.

But give the OP a break - of course it's not abuse! And agree with whoever said it denigrates real abuse.

Ah, I get it! KayJayBabe = Jeremy Kyle reference!

13, when she can give informed consent and if she wants to.

My daughter is desperate and dh has said never under this roof! Personally i've said comp age, other wise if she waits until she leaves home like i did she will have 8 in each ear within the week!

I am friends with a spanish catholic girl from boarding school and i have total respect for her decision to have her daughters ears pierced at weeks old, however, where i live its Chav!!

Your baby is not an accessory ffs! :( Poor thing.

You can never get rid of the scars that a piercing leaves so WHY force scarring on a poor child who may not even want it in her older life. So so sad.

And who said 'she's not a troll, just a young mum'?

How insulting! I am a young mum and wouldn't do this! This is not the norm amongst young mums thank you.

me MC. FFS give over with all your frothing. The OP has posted many times before, she is young and so prob didn't realise how her views differed from the majority of MN.

TBH I am appalled by the lack of compassion here. You just pile in and rip her to shreads. It obv makes most of you feel loads better about yourselves. You should be ashamed.

Teenage years for me. No younger, no need.

When she is 16 (years, not weeks or months!).

kayjay i had mine done as a very young child, i think it was the norm then.(i am old).

I am married to a man of Pakistani heritage, and a few months before Christmas he took my DD 3.11(at the time) to get her ears pierced.

I had a fit to be honest, she had asked, she see's cousins etc with earings, but i really think it could have waited.

BTW i asked her if it hurt, she said no but the noise was loud hard gal.

I feel you've had a bit of an unnecessary shoeing here. But it is a public forum and people don't hold back, so i wouldn't take it to heart. But i think the advice to wait is good.

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Just out of interest, does anyone know why it's legal (as I understand it) to pierce the ears of a baby or child but that they have to be over 16 for other piercings? I may have misunderstood the law here, I fully appreciate, and I haven't researched it. I have had my ears and various other body parts pierced (I now just wear the standard two earrings) and found the ear piercings just as much of a faff to clean and heal as any of the others, if not more so - I had real problems healing one earlobe piercing. Is it just a cultural thing (i.e. ear piercings are pretty standard in the UK whereas nipple piercing, for example, is not) or is there something more behind it? Thanks.

You can have piercings under 16 yrs with parental consent IIRC.

Wow, so could you take a baby to a piercing studio and ask for it's belly button (or whatever) to be pierced, and it would be legal for the piercer to do it? Bloody hell...

"Its". Stupid iPhone.

Why do you feel your baby is so unattractive without earrings that you want to mutilate her?

so funnysinthegarden-its ok to mutilate a baby if youre a young parent and dont know any better?ooooooooooooohhhh i see!

common sense has nothing to do with age,nor does being a good parent(not that im saying op isnt btw)