Is piercing babies ears acceptable?

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Rose65

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I hope I have not posted about this before - my memory is quite bad these days!

I notice some babies and toddlers these days with studs in their little ears. It makes me feel a bit squeamish. I wouldn't want to inflict that on a little one, personally I think it is choice when they are old enough. It appears legal but I wouldn't want my grandchildren to have pierced ears while little.

Back when I was growing up I had mine done as a teenager and remember it as painful but it was my choice. I argued with my parents to let me before they relented! I had quite sore holes which got infected, itchy and crusty. Then I had to careful what metals to wear - although I was keen to start wearing pretty earrings.
 

Rose65 said:
I hope I have not posted about this before - my memory is quite bad these days!

I notice some babies and toddlers these days with studs in their little ears. It makes me feel a bit squeamish. I wouldn't want to inflict that on a little one, personally I think it is choice when they are old enough. It appears legal but I wouldn't want my grandchildren to have pierced ears while little.

Back when I was growing up I had mine done as a teenager and remember it as painful but it was my , she shouchoice. I argued with my parents to let me before they relented! I had quite sore holes which got infected, itchy and crusty. Then I had to careful what metals to wear - although I was keen to start wearing pretty earrings.
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My first child was a daughter. A neighbor felt that as an infant she should have her ears pierced since the neighbor was having her own infants pierced. My wife agreed.

When I found out she had earrings in her ears and that I couldn't roll around on the floor with my daughter without hurting her, I demanded we take them out.

I hate when mother's treat their kids like dolls.
 
The fact is this is in no way a recent thing , this has been happening for decades to my certain knowledge. My daughter is 18 months from 50 years old.. and the babies who were the offspring of friends of mine when my Dd was tiny... had their babies ears pierced.

I think it's appalling, I've always been against it...

As she grew my dd asked if she could have her ears pierced, I told her when she becomes a teen and can make her own decisions then she can do it, until then.. no...

However , on her 9th birthday her father without consulting me took her and had her ears pierced. I was furious !

When she became of age, she had 9 piercings in her ears and piercing in her tongue and belly button....

I said absolutely nothing...

Eventually she let all but one set of holes in her ears close up...
 
Pinky said:
It seems that it is "custom" for some nationalities, to pierce babies ears.
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I agree with this. If it's a custom then it might be more harmful to the child to stand out as different.

Barring that, it's up to the parent and child. I seem to remember my mom asking me if I wanted pierced ears. I did not. Inflicting more pain and possibility of health risks wasn't my thing.
 
I'm not a fan of babies or toddlers with pierced ears - but I don't feel that strongly about it to call it abhorrent or abuse.
It is quickly done and is reversible.

I think children should be old enough to decide if they want it. Had a personal system that I was happy to do it if child was old enough to understand it would hurt and to cope with looking after them and still wanted it done.
Child had to initiate it not me and then there was a 'cooling off period' - so, after your birthday/ Christmas/ the school holidays or some measurable date a few weeks ahead.
Remind me then and we will do it.
If they reminded me, we did. If they forgot about it, we waited until they brought it up again.
Any age from about 6 years on subject to above was fine by me.
 
For decades I noticed that every Hispanic girl baby I saw had pierced ears. A lot of other people also had their babies' ears pierced. My granddaughter's ears were pierced when she was a baby. As far as I know, there was never a problem. I thought there must be a reason why people had it done to their babies instead of waiting. I never researched to find the reason though.
 
My niece was born in Barcelona,Spain in 1963. Her Dad is Spanish. My sister had to fight the nurses off almost from the second she was born to not pierce her ears. Probably should have just gone ahead and let them,because of course,by age 10,she was begging for them lol.
 
They are not real - they are not even real babies with fake tattoos, they are just generated pics.

Says so in the link " Midjourney is an image generator that lets you explore new ideas that unlocks your creativity."
 
January said:
Stud type earings are very hard to pull out without disconnecting the 2 parts - not something a baby or toddler could do
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When I read about babies possibly pulling them out, I thought they are probably so used to them that they think of them as another body part and just leave them alone. And this is from a person who would normally worry about things like pulling them out and swallowing them. Go figure! :rolleyes: @Teacher Terry
 
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