+238 I guess I understand why people would feel this way, but it's kind of annoying when you hear someone get all up-in-arms about people getting their baby's ears pierced. It's not like the baby is traumatized and if they grow up and don't like them, they can simply take them out, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think it's really cute!!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Same! And really, it's better that way because a baby isn't going to remember the pain, so if they end up loving the piercings, they don't have to go through the pain of it when they're older.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

pain? piercing your ears doesn't hurt that much does it? You're making the pain seem like circumcision pain

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I thought it really hurt haha.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It hurts about as much as a pinch.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

uhhh no they cant just take them out. Yes they can take earrings off but the holes are still there

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You don't know how piercings work, do you?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Neither do you apparently. It only closes up if you take them out before it heals. It can shrink over time though but the hole is still there.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

A lot of the time they will close up totally. It's happened to me and a lot of my friends just from not wearing earrings for a while. I guess sometimes there can be little scars if you've been wearing really heavy earrings that stretched the hole (hehe, stretched the hole), but even those aren't very noticeable.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah but small children enjoy pulling on things so they might be pulling on the earrings and stretching the hole. Thats really one the main problems.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I've never heard of that happening and I know a lot of little girls with their ears pierced, but it's a possibility. I guess they just get earrings at an age where they aren't at that phase yet, so by the time they are, they're so used to the earrings that they aren't really curious about them.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Where do people who do this mostly live? I havent seen many.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah, baby earrings are usually tiny anyways.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

For the record, I've had my ears pierced for 12 years now. I almost never wear earrings but the holes have never closed. Nosleeptill is right, taking the earrings out when they're older won't make the holes go away.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I got my ears pierced when I was a toddler. I remember crying but it wasn't anything traumatic, and I took them out when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and they closed all the way. I want to get them repierced because I like earrings but I'm too lazy...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Haha, there's so much I really want to do but I haven't yet because I'm too lazy :P

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah, ear piercing is a lot less of a commitment than circumcision and the parents make that decision, there's no controversy over that one

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Exactly, this post was actually somewhat inspired by the recent post about circumcision.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I thought there was controversy, they're banning religious circumcision in Germany

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I guess, but it seems like some parents think it will be the end of the world if they don't pierce their child's ears. Why do earrings have to be a given for all girls when they are born? I never got my ears pierced, and I'm fine. Most people don't notice (though when they do I'm like some sort of anomaly). I'm so used to not having it that I don't think I ever will at this point. It wouldn't hurt to let the child make the choice just the way that it wouldn't hurt much to choose for them.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I had my ears pierced as a baby, and I've been wearing earrings ever since. but...you know what's sick? gauging your baby's ears. EW.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I hope no one has ever done that

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I had my ears pierced when I was a baby, and now they're stretched to an inch. I don't mind that my parents decided for me to have pierced ears. I mean, it never caused me any grief.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

@Rainboots I knew a guy who had them stretched to 1.5". Some people can pull them off.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

@Run_The_Pacific Thank you. It's all just a personal preference.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I would have hated by parents if they did that to me.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Why?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm completely opposed to having my ears pierced. I don't have a problem with piercings on anyone else, it's just something I don't ever want for myself. There's no reason to pierce a baby's ears. It's not like it's something that will be beneficial in terms of health. It's just to make them look "pretty", as if it's some awful thing if a girl doesn't have her ears pierced. Having a piece of metal stabbed through yourself to be "pretty" should be your own choice. If my parents did it to me, I'd feel violated. Like they've betrayed my trust by piercing me without a good reason when I was too young to give consent.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

interesting point of view. (I'm not being sarcastic, btw)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

@silvershadow6 But think about if they had, just for a second. Being your age now and having grown up with having your ears pierced since a very young age, would you feel the same way? If it happened so that your ears were just magically pierced without your having grown up with them, then I can understand you would be mad. But having them all through life would probably change your outlook, no? (btw, I'm not arguing or trying to change your opinion, I just wanted to know)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

@HooHaNERDFIGHTERS I'd like to think that if I was little, noticed I was wearing earrings and asked about it, I'd still be pretty upset because not wanting my ears pierced is who I am. Obviously I have no idea if that would be the case though. @CloKamali If by "interesting" you mean "weird", you're right. It might seem like I'm anti-piercings but I think piercings are great on other people (my parents, best friend and ex all have piercings), just not on me.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well, it totally makes sense to me why you would pierce a baby's ears, in the first week after they're born, they can't feel any pain in their ears anyways, so why be angry with it?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I wish my mom would have pierced mine when I was a baby. Out of the two times that I was dumb enough to try it as a kid I screamed and bawled in pain and almost didn't let the lady finish the other side on the second try. ( I did it twice because I let the holes close up the first time.)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

When I was about ten, my teacher had had her ears pierced as a baby. Apparently, the person doing the piercing had no idea what they were doing, as the piercing needle somehow ripped a hole nearly the full length of the earlobe. Scared me off wanting ear piercings for ages.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

People will get all up-in-arms about anything and everything they possibly can. This just happens to be one of them.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I got my ears pierced when i was like 2 or 3, and i don't wear earrings all that much but I never had a problem with it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't think it's a big deal, but I wouldn't do it to my child. The only reason is that when I went to get my cartilage pierced at Claire's a few months ago, I saw a one year old getting her ears pierced. The mom had to hold her down to keep her from wriggling and two people had to do both ears at the same time because she started bawling after it was done. It just seemed like a hassle. Plus, it can be kind of expensive and a baby wouldn't really appreciate it or be able to take care of it, so that'd be more work for me. I'm a lazy motherfucker, you see.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I got my ears pierced when I was only a few months old. It didn't hurt because it takes awhile for the nerve endings to fully develop in the ear. Also, my mom had a them pierced at a small hospital by a doctor. She says I cried, but it was only from the noise of the gun. They were pierced for ten years and closed when I took my earrings out for about a half of a year. It just depends on the person whether they will close or not. My moms's have never closed, and I can't ever remember her wearing earrings :P

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Exactly y

by Anonymous 11 years ago

We do that all the time here! We think of piercing a little girl's ears as an equivalent to boy's circumcision. However, boys are usually circumcised during preschool and girls are usually pierced at around toddlerhood. I was pierced when I was very lottle and I can't remember the pain. I just remembered lying down on my mother's lap and then viola! a pair of studs in my ears.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Nobody has addressed the fact that earrings on babies looks awful! It's tacky and stereotypical of low-income, trashy areas. Also, when I was working at a kindergarten for children 2-5, quite a few of the little girls said that they don't like their earrings. Others said that they like them because they want to be grown up. Let children enjoy being children and let them decide for themselves when they get to the age of around 10...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

A baby should look like a baby ,not like a little old lady. They have a right to choose when they are older.

by Anonymous 5 years ago