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No. I plan to pierce Harper's ears as soon as her ped will let me...I'd planned on doing it before 10 months:)

I had my ears pierced when I was 4, and it hurt so bad! I think it's crueler (more cruel?) to do it when they can remember. At 10 mos, she won't remember!

I just can't do it, I'm going to wait until she is old enough to ask for it and understand the consequences.

in a lot of cultures babies' ears are pierced so i wouldn't say it's cruel.

i can imagine the day that olive asks for earrings.... oh what a rite of passage!

My neighbor has 3 girls and pierced their ears when they were 3-4 months. She says she always asks if they can pierce both ears at the same time by they always say no. Her youngest is about a year old and looks so cute but I'm going to wait until LO asks to get her ears pierced...and probably wait until she is 1st grade or so

I don't think it's necessarily cruel but sometimes the week or so after getting them done is uncomfortable so there might be some fussing involved. On the other hand they don't go through the fear of it or remembering it!

My mom had my sister's pierced at 6 months and she looked so cute in all of her baby photos, and my mom said she never had any problems. She said that I was the difficult one, getting my ears pierced at 4, because I messed with them a lot. I was old enough to know they were there, and at 4, had to keep my little hands busy I guess. Maybe that's why I'm so pro-piercing at a very early age....

I've taken a few infected earrings out, seen some torn lObes etc. so our girls can pierce their ears when they are teens

I know some people do it for cultural reasons but I don't agree with it at all outside of that. I will wait until LO asks for them and I can teach her how to take care of it.

I don't like how babies and toddlers look with pierced ears, it's not for me. I'm waiting until she is old enough to ask to get them pierced.