Ear piercing your infant daughter.

[cminamyer]

Would you get your daughters ears pierced when she is an infant?

[GRose]

Griggsy- I think a HUGE brawl would break out if we all met in person lmao.

[Griggsy]

I honestly wonder sometimes if any of us met in person if we would actually like each other.

You are standing behind a woman with an infant and you look because we all do, and you see that her ears are pierced. Would you really say out loud to the mother how skanky she looks, or how age inappropriate it is, or would you physically grimance and pull back with a terrified look on your face. I seriously doubt it. However I do believe you would recall the situation over the phone or to your shopping buddy.

It's like the conversation a few days ago about circumcision. My goodness it's all a personal choice, but you don't have the option of being disgusted when it comes to that. . . not unless you were doing something illegal.

Just because parents do or raise their children in a different manner than you do doesn't make them bad parents, it just makes them different.  There are a million pros and cons on both sides, but be civil about it. My word you act like we are talking about tattooing a 2 month old.

[Avanaar]

After reading mommom's comment, I forgot to mention that I would think it would be easier to clean their ears yourself when they're younger instead of worrying about letting them take care of their ears.  How many 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc year olds do you know who are diligent about hygiene?  I'm sure you'd be constantly reminding them to clean their ears ... or end up doing it yourself anyway.  Personally, I'd much rather do it myself and know it's been done right.

[mommom2]

I said no, I would leave the decision up to her when she is old enough to take care of them herself and I myself hate to see infants with their ears pierced, I kind of grimace every time I see it.

[Avanaar]

I believe I was 6 months old when my mother had mine done, and I'm glad for it.  I may have asked when I was older to have them done, but I probably would have ended up like Joy and chickened out!  =D

When I have a girl, I would like to get her ears pierced around the same time I had mine done when I was a baby.  I agree with what GRose said about buying your little girl pink dresses to look cute ... they don't have a choice to wear that pink dress, but you put it on them anyway.  When they're older, if they don't like wearing pink dresses, they can take them off.  Just like earrings.  If they don't like them when they're older, they can take them out and the holes will close up.  No worse for wear.  

Getting your daughter's ears pierced early on is a personal choice.  Whatever you decide will not be right or wrong ... it just is.  

[GRose]

This is so funny to me. Of course we want our babies to look cute. Do you buy pretty pink dresses and cute hair ribbons because your infant asked for them??? NO. You buy them because YOU want your baby to look cute, it is basically the same thing as ear piercing, you do it because you want your little girl to look cute and their is nothing wrong with that. I think it pretty silly to say that earrings in infants is age-inappropriate, it isn't like we are talking about make-up on a baby, it is a cute little stud.
I could care less that some people don't want to pierce their daughters ears but don't say it is inappropriate.