Ears piercing for infant/toddler

SunshineAfterRain · Post by **SunshineAfterRain** » 4th Jan, '12, 16:24

How old is your baby/child when you bring her for ears piercing?

What is/are the reason(s) if you have not done so?

Morrolan · Post by **Morrolan** » 4th Jan, '12, 16:46

18 years...

slinky · Post by **slinky** » 4th Jan, '12, 18:21

I was 5 when my mother did mine. I ended up with badly infected ears for a long time due to an allergy to (most likely) nickel in the earring posts. Turns out I can only wear earrings with surgical steel, full gold or white gold posts. There's not really a way my mother could have foreseen that, but ear piercing didn't start out as a very pleasant experience for me.

Slinkette is 8 and has not had it done. Given she has no interest in it at this time, I don't see any reason to pursue it. If/when she has an interest in it, we can look into whether or not it's a good time to do it.

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 4th Jan, '12, 18:29

Good strategy Slinks, particularly after your chidhood experience.

I'm afraid I just don't get why parents inflict this on young children who have no say in the matter.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 4th Jan, '12, 18:31

CHILD ABUSE!!!

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 4th Jan, '12, 18:44

Have to agree kinda, no reason to pierce ears til they can get a job and buy their own... I had mine done when i was 13? 14? And yes i had a pt job...

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 4th Jan, '12, 19:32

Had mine done at 12, when in my mother's view I was old enough to care for them myself.

I fainted.

I had another hole put in one a few years later.

I fainted.

I wore a false nose ring.

Pinklepurr · Post by **Pinklepurr** » 4th Jan, '12, 20:46

It can be a bit of a cultural thing though can't it? I remember being so jealous of all the girls at school who had pierced ears but their whole families had it done when they were only toddlers. Whereas our families baulked at the idea (same as some reactions here) it just wasn't the thing for us to do.

I eventually got mine done when I was about 20..then a few years later got them done again. No problems for me but my niece (who got them done when she was in her late teens) had the exact same problem (and still does) as Slinks.

slinky · Post by **slinky** » 4th Jan, '12, 23:26

I still have the issue with certain types of metal -- it takes (probably) less than a minute for me to feel my ear lobe burning if I try and wear an earring with nickel in the post. I remember years ago my MIL came back from a trip to Australia with a pair of lovely jade earrings for me -- I was able to wear them for all of 10 minutes or so before having to take them out or else I would have ended up with infected ear lobes. Good thing I have about 3-4 pairs of earrings I ever wear and I'm not the type to buy bunches and wear a different pair every day.

I know there is a cultural aspect to ear piercing and when I had it done back in the (ahem) 70s it was kind of a newish fad, particularly for kids of my culture, but I know I was one of the first of the girls my age I knew. If I think about it, there are only a handful of Slinkette's friends and classmates who have pierced ears at aged 7-8. Obviously not enough for her to even mention wanting it done.

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 5th Jan, '12, 04:46

I have a similar allergy. Was a problem when I was younger and wanted to wear all sorts of crap in my ears but these days I wear the same earrings every day, and they're just small white gold studs. (And no idea if the 2nd hole in my right ear still opens, been many years since I used that one.)

Morrolan · Post by **Morrolan** » 5th Jan, '12, 08:58

daffodil wrote:I'm afraid I just don't get why parents inflict this on young children who have no say in the matter.

what she said...

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 5th Jan, '12, 09:22

Morrolan wrote:
daffodil wrote:I'm afraid I just don't get why parents inflict this on young children who have no say in the matter.
what she said...

Circumscision would be in the same category then, just more extreme.

nev · Post by **nev** » 5th Jan, '12, 09:29

Both my sister and I had our ears pierced when we were a day old. It's a cultural thing, marking the birth of a female baby. I wonder if they pierce the ears of a hermaphrodite baby?

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 5th Jan, '12, 10:13

Or anything else?

Hmmm....just because something is cultural doesn't mean it's OK. Female circumcision is cultural in some countries....

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 5th Jan, '12, 10:14

baloo wrote:
Morrolan wrote:
what she said...
Circumscision would be in the same category then, just more extreme.

there are some health benefits of male circumcision....

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 5th Jan, '12, 10:44

Fat Bob wrote:
baloo wrote:
Circumscision would be in the same category then, just more extreme.
there are some health benefits of male circumcision....

What are they ?

nev · Post by **nev** » 5th Jan, '12, 10:47

Just because something is cultural does not mean it's not OK. No babies have ever died from ear piercing, it's usually done by the nurse, quick, clean, and painless.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 5th Jan, '12, 11:04

No infection from ear piercing? Haven't you read the above?

Health benefits of male circumcision, I seem to remember there is a lower risk of catching HIV in heterosexual, circumcised males, whilst female and homosexual males there is less evidence. There are further studies suggesting circumcision also helps reduce the chances of other STD transmission.

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 5th Jan, '12, 11:09

Fat Bob wrote:No infection from ear piercing? Haven't you read the above?

Health benefits of male circumcision, I seem to remember there is a lower risk of catching HIV in heterosexual, circumcised males, whilst female and homosexual males there is less evidence. There are further studies suggesting circumcision also helps reduce the chances of other STD transmission.

So nothing concrete then ?

I find circumcision to be a barbaric practice especially when there are no real medical reasons to mutilate a baby's penis.

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 5th Jan, '12, 11:12

I'm not a fan of doing it but I would imagine piercing a baby's ears, before they are active, would be safer than piercing a toddler or young child's ears.

Circumcision, agree only for medical reasons. Bit weird the first time I encountered it, too

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 5th Jan, '12, 11:13

Way too much information there Kooks!

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 5th Jan, '12, 11:17

Should have seen it before I hit the backspace key

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 5th Jan, '12, 11:17

Am officially running and hiding now....

nev · Post by **nev** » 5th Jan, '12, 11:30

I forgot to mention that in Indonesia they always use gold ear stud/hoop on babies. No risk of allergies.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 5th Jan, '12, 11:36

baloo wrote:
Fat Bob wrote:No infection from ear piercing? Haven't you read the above?

Health benefits of male circumcision, I seem to remember there is a lower risk of catching HIV in heterosexual, circumcised males, whilst female and homosexual males there is less evidence. There are further studies suggesting circumcision also helps reduce the chances of other STD transmission.
So nothing concrete then ?

I find circumcision to be a barbaric practice especially when there are no real medical reasons to mutilate a baby's penis.

All observational. There again, so is the link between smoking and lung cancer.

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