How young would you get your baby's ears pierced?

[fingercuffs]

There's a woman on my local FBook group asking for recommendations to get her 2 month old baby's ears pierced.

When told she's being selfish and it's cruel she went berserk at everyone talking about circumcision.

2 months old for a cosmetic procedure is too young when it's painful for a baby who doesn't understand why, right? I had plastic surgery on my ears when I was 8 but I was old enough to know what was going on by then.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I think my daughter was less than a year old. Her grandma did it as she had a piercing gun in her clinic.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I had plastic surgery on my ears when I was 8 but I was old enough to know what was going on by then.

You had Spock ears?

 

[Pliny Pete]

The moment that little bitch slides outta her mama's bloody squirrel, she's already gonna be crying anyways

 

[fingercuffs]

You had Spock ears?

I'd have kept them the same if I had.

 

[mjmj]

It stings for literally seconds, its less “painful” than diaper rash. This sounds exactly like something FB experts would grandstand against.

 

[Osculater]

Aboot tree fiddy days

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

The moment that little bitch slides outta her mama's bloody squirrel, she's already gonna be crying anyways

 

[Yorick the Wiser]

sounds like a cultural phenomenon.

I grew up back east with lots of Puerto Ricans and that was a thing for them.

Although, I think having it down while they're still in utero is pushing it.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

It stings for literally seconds, its less “painful” than diaper rash. This sounds exactly like something FB experts would grandstand against.

i'd be les worried about the piercing itself and more worried about infections on an infant so close to their brain.

 

[fingercuffs]

It stings for literally seconds, its less “painful” than diaper rash. This sounds exactly like something FB experts would grandstand against.

Lol, no it doesn't. I've had multiple piercings and it doesn't just sting for seconds.

 

[Fury]

I dunno about exact timing but it seems like a way to introduce a potential point of infection in a baby. So I wouldn't do it.

Also, just creating more things to maintain and keep clean.

 

[Sobek]

If I think back to the olden days when I was a kid I think girls were doing it around 10.

I remember one of my work colleagues some years back came in and told me his wife just got their 3 yr old daughter done. He didn't seem comfortable.

Personally I don't have kids but saw his point. Culturally, isn't it about sexualising them?

 

[VinceArch]

Both my sisters had their ears pierced young. I think when they both hit two years of age IIRC.

 

[Yorick the Wiser]

I've never had any piercings, except for when cuffs pierced my heart,
but it does seem like it would be painful.
I know it's not the same thing, but I was wearing nipple clamps this afternoon for
what seemed like an eternity until she was done with me.
ouch.

 

[fingercuffs]

If I think back to the olden days when I was a kid I think girls were doing it around 10.

I remember one of my work colleagues some years back came in and told me his wife just got their 3 yr old daughter done. He didn't seem comfortable.

Personally I don't have kids but saw his point. Culturally, isn't it about sexualising them?

I was a late starter at 13 when my mum let me get mine done.
I just find it a bit weird when parents need to get their a few weeks old children stabbed to be pretty.

 

[fingercuffs]

I've never had any piercings, except for when cuffs pierced my heart,
but it does seem like it would be painful.
I know it's not the same thing, but I was wearing nipple clamps this afternoon for
what seemed like an eternity until she was done with me.
ouch.

Bonus points if they were hooked up to your motorbike battery.

 

[Yorick the Wiser]

that sounds shocking.

 

[mjmj]

Lol, no it doesn't. I've had multiple piercings and it doesn't just sting for seconds.

So have I. This is a perfect example of where people should mind their own business.

 

[fingercuffs]

So have I. This is a perfect example of where people should mind their own business.

Until you publish it for the world to see, yes. I assume you weren't a few weeks old when your parents had your ears pierced?