Piercing child's ears at 3 months of age (179 views)

Guess I am the odd one then!! I had my daughter's ear's pierced at 2 months of age. I did it this young for several reasons as my mom also did for me. My mom had earrings put away that were from my grandmother. She wanted me to have them....hence the ears were pierced. Besides passing down earrings to my daughter, it is supposed to be easier for a young baby to adjust to piercing than a pre teen child. With my daughter, I did all the cleaning etc.... when she was an infant and we pretty much kept the same pair of earrings in with safety backs until she was old enough to want to change them for aesthetic reasons. To this day, she pretty much wears the same earrings most days and only changes them on special occasions or when she wants a different look. She never fussed with them, tagged at them etc.... They just became an extension of her own body. She wears earrings 24/7 because that is what she is used to from infancy. She did ask me if she could get a second hole in each ear at 16 y.o. This was when she was 15 y.o. I took her for her 15th b-day to get that one done. IMHO....anymore she can do by herself. And if if if she did decide she did not want pierced ears, they can easily be closed up or earrings just not worn as long as they have been well taken care of. Personally I have 3 holes on one side; 2 on the other. First set, my mother did for me when I was very young. Second set I asked my mom for at 16 (just like my DD) and my mom took me. 3rd one I did myself when I was in med. school playing around in one of the medical clinics on a slow day. Today I am actually wearing earrings to fill all 5 holes, but I don't that often anymore and on days that I only wear one pair, you can not see the other holes. So there......I am the odd man out!

Karen

At 6 months old, how about a couple of tattoos? And by 30, her earlobes will probably be down to her knees. Personally I think it's odd, because at that age children are growing and developing. To each his own.

In the second grade, I made friends with a girl who had pierced ears. In 1959, in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles, pierced ears on a child were quite unusual. (Her family was foreign, but I'm not sure I ever knew what her background was) Nowadays, I see teeny children with pierced ears all the time.

As the only person on the planet (it seems) who dislikes jewelry, I can't imagine making that choice for a child. But, on the other hand I can imagine that if it's done early enough and the child grows up always having pierced ears, perhaps it's simply accepted as a normal part of oneself and never questioned. In other words, maybe I MIGHT have grown up feeling differently about jewelry if my mom had had my ears pierced when I was small. (of course, come to think of it, my mom's ears aren't pierced either...)

Excuse me. I think I'm rambling. Will stop now.