2010: I had my ears pierced as a baby. I always thought baby girls looked cute with them. Then I had my baby and I realized I could not watch my baby cry for something cosmetic and un-necessary. I have pierced ears, which I love and I hope that if my daughter has them pierce it is her choice when she is old enough to say she wants it and can take care of her ears or help mom take of her ears until she is old enough to do it.
2014-2015: I am so glad I waited to have my daughter tell me when she wanted her ears pierced. When she was turning 4 years old, she said she wanted her ears pierced like mom. She was pretty insistent on it. Even though I thought little girls looked cute with their ears pierced, and I waited for her to ask, I was surprised by my hesitation. I felt like she was young and I expected this conversation to come maybe around 8 years old or older. I did my best to prepare her by showing her videos of children getting their ears pierced, some who were happy, sad, crying and so forth. I told her they would pierce at the same time, and that it would likely hurt and/ or feel like a pinch. We took her for a tour at where she would get her ears pierced, the chair she would sit in, the tools they would use and she still said she wanted them pierced. I did some research on mall piercing, but my pediatrician's office didn't offer ear piercing as far as I knew. So as her fourth birthday gift, we took her to the mall to get her ears pierced. And she did amazing. We bought a pearl set of earrings that she wore for 6 months. We rotated her earrings, cleaned them with the Clair's ear solution and she had no infections. We warned her that mom would constantly have to rub the solution on her ears, I even would give her a cotton ball to attempt to clean her ears herself. During that period, she never complained about having to get her ears cleaned, never resisted or refused, because she wanted to keep playing, and she gladly practiced cleaning her own ears. After 6 months, we switched her earrings, that we let her pick out. She loves having her ears pierced and gets lots of compliments on how she looks like such a big girl.
2014-2015: I am so glad I waited to have my daughter tell me when she wanted her ears pierced. When she was turning 4 years old, she said she wanted her ears pierced like mom. She was pretty insistent on it. Even though I thought little girls looked cute with their ears pierced, and I waited for her to ask, I was surprised by my hesitation. I felt like she was young and I expected this conversation to come maybe around 8 years old or older. I did my best to prepare her by showing her videos of children getting their ears pierced, some who were happy, sad, crying and so forth. I told her they would pierce at the same time, and that it would likely hurt and/ or feel like a pinch. We took her for a tour at where she would get her ears pierced, the chair she would sit in, the tools they would use and she still said she wanted them pierced. I did some research on mall piercing, but my pediatrician's office didn't offer ear piercing as far as I knew. So as her fourth birthday gift, we took her to the mall to get her ears pierced. And she did amazing. We bought a pearl set of earrings that she wore for 6 months. We rotated her earrings, cleaned them with the Clair's ear solution and she had no infections. We warned her that mom would constantly have to rub the solution on her ears, I even would give her a cotton ball to attempt to clean her ears herself. During that period, she never complained about having to get her ears cleaned, never resisted or refused, because she wanted to keep playing, and she gladly practiced cleaning her own ears. After 6 months, we switched her earrings, that we let her pick out. She loves having her ears pierced and gets lots of compliments on how she looks like such a big girl.
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