https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 10 May 2026 19:01:24 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387694 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:24:01 +0000 Cherrybee 1387694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way! I cried at her last vaccination appointment before we even went in and suggested to DH that polio might be preferable - there's no way I could take her to have her ears pierced! Not even when she asks - DH will have to take her! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387665 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:14:56 +0000 MamaG 1387665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, they were done just before she turned one. It's not at all cultural for us, we just wanted her to have pierced ears and have no regrets about it at all.</p> <p>Well maybe I regret the lost diamond earring, but that's a different question. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387635 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:07:57 +0000 birdofafeather 1387635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll wait until she asked. I got it done for my 5th or 6th birthday!</p> <p>As a side note, I've gone with 3 people (in HS and college) to get their ears pierced for the first time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387464 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:29:20 +0000 rattles 1387464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. I plan to wait until she asks or until she's 10, whichever comes later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387392 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:14:46 +0000 SAHM0811 1387392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They are almost 6 yo and 2.5 yo and haven't asked yet! I've offered my eldest to have them done, but she doesn't want to just yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387390 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:14:31 +0000 CraftyMom13 1387390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are waiting till she asks for them. I think it is adorable but want it to be her choice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387344 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:05:20 +0000 pinkcupcake 1387344@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, we will wait until (if?) she asks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387326 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:02:31 +0000 nana87 1387326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We won't pierce her ears until she starts asking, and then probably not until a special occasion or as a really special treat, like a bday present or something. I got mine pierced when I was 10 (shortly before my brother's bar mitzvah) and I'd been asking for awhile by then, but I remember it being really hard to take care of them for the first couple years (which is funny, since now it's like nothing!) and getting a lot of infections. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387307 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:57:40 +0000 lawbee11 1387307@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. She's only 6 months old so I worry about them being a choking hazard. We'll wait til she's old enough to ask for them herself...I'm in no rush. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387275 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:50:21 +0000 mrsjazz 1387275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not yet. My mother keeps asking me when we are going to do it and I remind her that she didn't have our ears pierced (my sister and I) until we were 4 or 5. I think she'd look cute with them and people always think she's a boy since she has short hair. She is one of the only little Black girls I see with no earrings which is why my fam keeps asking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387134 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:08:44 +0000 lovehoneybee 1387134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a boy but we talked about this before we knew he was a boy, and D said it was important to him that if we had a girl that we wait until she was old enough to ask....he felt it was a rite of passage that required a dose of bravery. </p> <p>I asked to get mine pierced for my 9th birthday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387090 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:54:09 +0000 Running Elley 1387090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not yet but we're planning on getting them pierced at the pediatrician while she's still little. I think they offer it at the 4 month appt but I'm not positive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387060 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:46:14 +0000 Radish 1387060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. She will be much older before we even entertain the idea of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387051 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:43:16 +0000 autumnlove 1387051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I'm going to wait until they ask for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387049 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:43:14 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1387049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! She's 5 months, and so many people are asking if we are going to get them pierced. I figure we will wait until she asks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1387045 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:42:21 +0000 T-Mom 1387045@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. She's 5. She hasn't even talked about wanting it so she can get it when she asks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386966 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:18:38 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1386966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I want them pierced but I have this irrational fear of them hurting her while they're healing &amp; her not understanding why she's in pain. I have several piercings so I know that can hurt sometimes during healing &amp; I just can't do it. lol she is 4.5 months.<br /> But once she asks we'll go right away, if she's big enough to ask, she will be big enough for me to explain that it will hurt a little. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386951 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:11:31 +0000 mediagirl 1386951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not until she asks, and then earns them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386949 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:10:48 +0000 Foodnerd81 1386949@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are waiting until she is old enough to ask for it and help take care of them. I wasn't allowed to until I was 10 and that seems like roughly a good age. </p> <p>I know in my head that it's no big deal and doesn't really hurt them that young, but having seen her get a blood draw at 3 days old, and sobbing hysterically (me, not her) I couldn't bear to pierce them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386945 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:08:48 +0000 LuLu Mom 1386945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I will wait until she asks for them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386943 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:08:09 +0000 Silva 1386943@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. If she wants them done we will probably save it for something like 6th grade graduation </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386938 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:05:54 +0000 Mamaof2 1386938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PinkElephant: mini tattoos for your ears - I get mine from poppy drops</p> <p><a href="http://www.poppydrops.com/i-can-fly-collection/" rel="nofollow">http://www.poppydrops.com/i-can-fly-collection/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386936 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:04:22 +0000 avivoca 1386936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We will wait until she asks for them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386934 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:03:26 +0000 PinkElephant 1386934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What are tattoo earrings?</p> <p>We meant to pierce DD1's ears but at 19 months I'm a little afraid we missed our window of opportunity for now. We plan to pierce DD2's ears a few months after she's born, so maybe we will do DD1's then. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386927 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:01:21 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1386927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, but my mom has been bugging me to get them done since DD was born. If we lived in the States, I would have gotten them done already, but it's not common at all here - as in there isn't even a place to go to for a baby, so no. Plus, with DD's personality, I'm afraid she'd just yank them off! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386910 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:51:21 +0000 mamimami 1386910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter got her ears pierced when she was 1 day old. The only females I know in Mexico who DON'T have their ears pierced are foreign. So yeah, it's cultural for sure, and we went local on this one :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386900 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:43:18 +0000 Anagram 1386900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not yet but she will. Ear piercing is cultural. Most white americans wait till later when the girls are older. Central and South american, middle eastern, and south asian cultures tend to ear pierce as soon as possible.</p> <p>My husband is south asian and we'll be doing it soonish. Our pediatrician is Indian and she does it in her office. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386895 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:41:49 +0000 MsLipGloss 1386895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. Like @Smurfette:, we're going to wait until LO decides she wants them pierced. Totally her call! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386866 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:13:11 +0000 Smurfette 1386866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. DH thought they got done when they are little but I told him that we were going to wait and let her make the choice if she wants them pierced. He said ok! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dd-have-her-ears-pierced#post-1386863 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:10:30 +0000 Mamaof2 1386863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So many kids in my DD's class have their ears pierced! Right now I just use the tattoo earrings on her since they look cute.</p> <p>I think I will wait until she asks to have them done and then take her.</p> <p>btw she is 3 </p>