EAR PIERCING RECOMMENDATION

[Anonymous]

In DH's country all the baby girls get their ears pierced right away and they wear little gold earrings thoughout childhood. Very, very beautiful and I will definitely have it done if I ever have a daughter.

I had my ears pierced at age 4. Didn't hurt.

[Anonymous]

What happened with "if you don't have anything nice to say keep your mouth shut"?

Unfortunately, that rule doesn't seem to apply on DCUM!

[Anonymous]

its better to get them done as an infant!!!! My mother is still afraid of getting hers done and she is 41! So I got mine done at 1 year at Claires. I reccomend it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:please don't pierce your infant daughter's ears. it is painful and unnecessary.

Ditto. Skip the mutilation of your child unless you live in a trailer park.

[Anonymous]

"You know, in many cultures, piercing of infants' ears is traditional and is very important to families. It is not "grown-up stuff." I have one Latina friend who had hers pierced as an infant by her grandmother - the grandmother did all the girls in the family, and it is still very special to my friend to know that her grandmother did this for her. "

Oh, brother! This is a stupid argument.

[Anonymous]

"In DH's country all the baby girls get their ears pierced right away and they wear little gold earrings thoughout childhood. Very, very beautiful and I will definitely have it done if I ever have a daughter. "

It's trashy in MY country.

[Anonymous]

http://childrenfirstpediatrics.com/

They'll do it, but I haven't yet called to see if they take children who aren't patients.

My ped. doesn't, and like you, I'm looking for my daughter, who's 6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you want to got to a Ped. to have this done but I know Claires and The Icing does this. They are trained, wear gloves, and use sterilized earrings that are in a package - not opened until you are completely sure you are going to go through w/ the piercing. I know this b/c my first job years ago was at Claire's and I had to pierce ears. Once the package of earrings were opened they had to be used or pitched right then.

Haha...trained... that's funny. I worked at a Claire's in high school and I was "trained" on a teddy bear and a paper/foam ear. While I don't necessarily agree with piercing an infant's ears (but to each their own, I certainly won't flame about it!), I would go to a pediatrician for an infant. Hopefully OP gets some good recommendations.

I went to nursing school and we trained in foam/rubber body parts and teddy bears all the time. I bet at least one nurse had her first time on you

[Anonymous]

I do not have any advice as to where to go, I wanted to get my ears pierced when I was 6 years old so my Mom took me to Walmart. I'm from a very very small town and that was the only place to have it done besides doing it yourself (which I did much later in life).

Anywho, I've read some people talk about how it is something that is done in thier culture, but no one has stated in what culture or why. I'm really asking why do some cultures do it? I really want to know! What meaning does it hold? I see alot of babies with it done, and I would love to know the cultural meaning behind it! Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Skyma wrote:I had mine done when I was 6 weeks by my great grand mother using a needle. My grandmother continued the tradtion with all her other grand kids and great grand but she passed. And although places like Claires and Piercing Proganda says they use the same equipment in the dr's office I just fell safe going to a pediatrican.

They have less practice... the results you get form Claires are much much better...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:please don't pierce your infant daughter's ears. it is painful and unnecessary.

Ditto. Skip the mutilation of your child unless you live in a trailer park.

do you mind to explain why it's ok to "mutilate" children if you live in a trailer park?

[Anonymous]

14:04 the cultural meaning is the same as here VANITY.
The difference is that we do it earlier.
Here you wait until the child begs for it, back home we don't.
And honestly I can't understand the difference... Why it's trashy to have it done early on and it's not trashy to do it when they're 7yo...

[Anonymous]

Hey, I have an idea!

Let's all get worked up saying catty, judgmental, nasty, insulting things to each other because we don't all share the same views on infant ear piercing! C'mon, it'll be fun!!!

[Anonymous]

14 17 too late we've started it already you're late!

[Anonymous]

Cultural or not...who cares!!! The OP wants to get her daughter's ears pierced and she could do whatever she wants with her child! The people on this board are so judgemental...geesh!!!