How old should your baby be before you pierce her ears?

Question

I am pregnant (7 months) and VERY egar to pierce my daughter's ears when she is born. Is there a specific amount of time you should wait?

Answer 1

Hi -

According to DrGreene.com, you should wait at least 3-5 months due to Tetanus, as it enters the body through puncture wounds. However, other sites say that it's fine to do it as young as 2 months or less.

Just be sure to get it done by a doctor and not at the mall or somewhere else that is likely to use a ear piercing gun as those can't be sterilized, risking Hepatitis as mentioned on the Baby Center website. Also, my baby tugged at her ears a lot during her first year of life. I had wanted to get her ears pierced before I had her, but after the amount of tugging she did with her ears, I was glad I decided to wait. She's almost 2 years old now and I still haven't pierced her ears. I've decided to wait until she asks me to have them pierced.

Hope this helps in your decision.

Answer 2

I had my daughters ears pierced when she was 2 1/2 months old, soon after her first set of shots. She was young enough not to play with them, or tug on them. She is 11 months old now. She has never had any problem with her ears. In fact, I can put small hoops in her ears and she doesn't mess with them at all.
My parents had the rule, "while you're under my roof..." Well, I turned 18 and double pierced them. I have a total of 7 holes and don't wear earrings. I did it just to spite my parents.
I don't see any reason not to single pierce your daughters ears at a young age. They don't remember the pain, and by the time they can make choices as to what earrings to wear, the holes shouldn't be prone to infection like newly pierced ears are.
Ask your pediatrician on the matter. Then make your decision.

Answer 3

My mom use to own a salon, where they did this of course. She wouldn't allow a baby to have this done before 3 months old. I personally wouldn't do it until around that time either.

My ears were pierced when I was a baby & I very rarely wear earrings, I went through a stage of never wearing them. I've never once cried myself to sleep because my parents pierced my ears. To ask as if it's a form of assult to pierce a baby's ears like some of these answers do is insane. I'm pregnant & if I have a daughter, I'll be getting her ear's pierced.

My only rule would be to go somewhere they've been trained. In the mall or Wal Mart does NOT count, they don't train anyone on this practice. At least go to a salon, where it may be more expensive, but they've at least had education in the proper way to do it & how to be sterile about it.

Answer 4

I don't see it as necessary to pierce a child's ears when they are that young. If you want to do it when the child is a baby, I'd wait until she is at least a year old. I don't have a specific reason why I'd wait that long, but it's unnecessary to do it when they're newborns, just gives you something else to worry about. Personally, I think piercing your ears is a rite of passage, something you do when the child gets older and can ask for it. I don't see waiting until the child is 16 or 17 years old to do it, but I wouldn't do it on a really young child either. I had mine pierced when I was 11 or 12, and I thought that was a good age. I could even see doing it for an 8 or 9 year old, if she were to ask about it, but an infant or toddler, no. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, just this is my opinion. If you're going to do it, you're going to do it no matter what anyone here says. Why don't you go to a store like Claire's, or something where they do ear piercing, and ask them how young they would pierce someone's ears, get a professional opinion on it.

Answer 5

Hi, I have two things for you to consider. First, you have no idea how much work you are in for with this baby apparently, because you won't need to think about things like this when you are actually trying to keep a newborn alive, which is a 24/7 job. Second, they aren't dress up dolls. I don't mean that harshly, but because you want to put cute little earrings on her is no reason to make her cry and bleed and not understand why. She's a person, a tiny human being, who won't know why people are hurting her. The first year of life is when we are supposed to teach them that they are safe, that we're there when they cry etc. not pain. Wait until you can explain it to her and she can understand.

Answer 6

The baby has to be AT LEAST two months old, with a round of vaccines, and preferably not younger than six months old. Most jewelers and doctors who pierce ears won't do it before six months of age. Any younger than six months old, you run a big risk of what they call Keloid scars - which are those big, nasty, red raised ones. Then you have to take the earrings out, wait at least a year, then pierce the ears again. (That happened to my niece.)

Answer 7

be conscious the your toddler's ear lobes isn't completely dropped till a pair of million 365 days previous. So in case you pierce them now the situation of the hollow isn't the comparable whilst she is older. that is going to take a seat plenty decrease than on the time you pierced it. in case you do pick to do it whilst she continues to be an toddler, flow someplace the place they'll do the two ears on the comparable time. That makes it greater easy for the baby because of the fact that is over and completed with quicker. additionally communicate on your baby's scientific expert and notice in the event that they could do it there in the workplace. greatest ingredient is to make useful anyplace you flow makes use of sterilized strategies and has an experienced individual doing it.

Answer 8

I have a 5 month old little girl.....I am waiting until she is old enough to make her own decision on whether or not she should get her ears pierced. It is her body she should be able to decide whether or not she has holes in her ears...( don't get me wrong I have my ears pierced and when I was 16 I had my belly button pierced)......my daughter may not like that......so if I were you just wait until she is old enough to tell you she wants her ears pierced.

Answer 9

well im not a doctor but i have seen and known people who had their daughters ear pierced when they came home from the hospital after the first week visit.
i think it would be ok as long as you keep them clean and hair out of it.to be sure just ask your doctor.
i know the earier you do it the less likely that will mess with them ,my friends little girl is 2 now and she leaves them alone like they are not even there,used to them..

Answer 10

I think you should wait until shes old enough to decide for herself. I have a 7 month old daughter and Im going to let her decide weather or not she wants them pierced or not.