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wow I was just about to make a thread on this but i'm on the other end. You can't really tell a parent anything about piercing their child ears unless it's in your contract. I know that a lot of people are against babies getting their ears pierced I am not one of them if I hadn't got them when I was a baby I would have never gotten them. I have had women try to explain to me why they think its cruel because most babies don't cry I don't get it but whatever everyone has an opinion. I haven't ever seen a child earring get snagged on anything not sure how that would even happen but I don't think its something you would have to worry about. Neither would cleaning that's something the mother should do at home.
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Btw I would share any bad stories with mom or try to talk her out of it I just wouldn't do it.Comment
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Good ideas! I haven't had any one with pierced ears yet, but I do think the care/cleaning is completely the parents responsibility. I don't even know if I would be comfortable putting and earring back in should it fall out (I know my own pierced ears can be tender when putting earrings in) - so I might add that I will call the parent to come do it. I would never talk anyone out of it or give horror stories - but I also won't take on (possible) extra work because of a parents decision either.Comment
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I haven't had any baby girls with pierced ears yet but I have a boy who has both ears pierced. He started with me at age 2 and is now 6. The summer before he started school, he begged his mom to let him get his ears pierced so she let him. He usually wears big diamond (fake one I am sure) studs.
Personally I think it looks funny but I think that is due to my own personal beliefs and upbringing but the little boy tells me most of his friends at school have one of both ears pierced too.Comment
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one of the biggest pros to getting them done young is they don't really mess with them. The 2 year old that gets her ears pierced is going to touch them, the 6 month old doesn't. I agree it is overstepping your bounds to even voice your disagreement. I would maybe suggest screw or locking backs for infants but that's it.
I pierced my daughter's ears myself when she was 6 months old. She cried for 30 seconds and then was fine. I used to pierce ears when I worked in a jewelry store and I had some babies where mom would give them a bottle during the piercing and then never even flinched. I saw more infections and problems with older kids who got them pierced than with babies.Comment
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Has never been an issue here. Pretty common to just put a bit of Emla cream on shortly before getting them pierced and they do not feel a thing. I just require small studs for daycare. I've never had one come out, but if I did, it would just go in a baggie for home time.Comment
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I had my daughters ears pierced when she was about a year old at the same time as her immunizations .
She was fine with them until about 2 1/2 yrs old when she decided to take one out and eat it .
My Mom was watching her at the time and when she asked her what happened to the earring she said she put it in her mouth . My Mom calls me and I leave work to take her for x-rays ( the Dr said to ) , and there it was a little white spot on the x-ray .
I had to watch her poop until it came out . That meant taking it out of the potty , putting it in a zip lock bag and smushing each day it until I found the earring .
If I had not found the earring within 10 days the Dr mentioned going in to get itComment
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My 3 yo dcg got her ears pierced a few weeks ago, and one of them was pulled out when she laid down on the couch and it got caught in the couch material. It was bleeding quit a lot. So I cleaned her ear and sent the earring home in a Baggie. The parents couldn't get the earring in - the dcg told me she screamed too much!
Good ideas! I haven't had any one with pierced ears yet, but I do think the care/cleaning is completely the parents responsibility. I don't even know if I would be comfortable putting and earring back in should it fall out (I know my own pierced ears can be tender when putting earrings in) - so I might add that I will call the parent to come do it. I would never talk anyone out of it or give horror stories - but I also won't take on (possible) extra work because of a parents decision either.
So she now has one ear pierced. They are letting the other close back up and then will get that one ear pierced again in a few months.
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I think each to their own. I had my ears pierced at 14 and was responsible for the cleaning, disinfecting etc. It wasn't plain sailing, as one ear kept getting infected, but I never regretted it. However, I felt strongly that both my daughters should have the choice as to whether to pierce their ears -- one decided to go ahead at 12; the other isn't interested. I wouldn't judge anyone for having their child's ears pierced as a baby though. It just wasn't something I chose to do.Comment
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One of my DC moms had chosen not to pierce her daughter's ears until the child wanted it. She was under a year old when on a weekend visit with dad, he had them pierced. A normally civil relationship got really ugly! However, I never had any problems with it in daycare.Comment
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As long as mom cleans them like she's supposed to after it's done, and has the right earrings in, I doubt it'll be a problem for you.Comment
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I got my daughters done when she was 4 months .... she never had any problems nor did the daycare children...Comment
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i had a kid with a pretty bad laceration from ripping new ones out. I don't like it but it's not up to me and i m not buying the 30 or some rip out until they adjust to having foreign material on there skin.my 3 yo dcg got her ears pierced a few weeks ago, and one of them was pulled out when she laid down on the couch and it got caught in the couch material. It was bleeding quit a lot. So i cleaned her ear and sent the earring home in a baggie. The parents couldn't get the earring in - the dcg told me she screamed too much! So she now has one ear pierced. They are letting the other close back up and then will get that one ear pierced again in a few months.Comment
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I'm not a fan of piercings. However, there are several one- year-olds and under at my center who have their ears pierced. I've never had any problems and most have just plain gem studs or fake pears etc. I don't think you'll have any issues if this parent does decide to get their babies ears pierced.Comment
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this is good infoThe only thing I would say to mom is that you require earrings (if worn) that can NOT be removed or fall out. No dangling earrings or anything similar.
A lot of time, a newly pierced ear needs to be cleaned multiple times a day....I would let mom know you will NOT be providing any care in regards to that process.... it shouldn't be your responsibility at all.
I'd require screw on backs only as they can't just fall out...
They look like this:
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I personally feel it should be a child's choice( I don't know if choice is the right word or not, but right of passage so to speak, or a mother/daughter event, yet choice is what I mean- after all it is a hole in a persons head) at around the age 10-12 and one that is talked about extensively with the child- Weird side of it for me is that I feel a boy should be circumcised before leaving the hospital. just me and my quirky ways-Comment
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