When is the right age to get your daughters ears pierced?

I got my daughters ears pierced when they were 6 months old by the doctor not at the mall. It was done correctly. Thier holes are centered. If your daughter is prone to ear infections I would not get the earrings. When they are young it just doesnt hurt as much and the pain isnt remembered. If she doesnt want the earrings you can always take them out and the holes will close.

The best time is when they ask for it themselves! I really dont see the need to peirce holes in my childrens ears for the sake of shoving a bit of jewellry through it they wont appriciate it and i dont see the need behind it it doesnt make them look any nicer or prettier.
yes the holes might close up but it would still leave a scar while we have to make all the choices for our children over things like where they get their education or when they have their shots, ear peircing is in my opinion a choice that can wait for the child to be old enough to make them selves its not one thats needed to be made now therefore needing us to do it so i feel its best to wait for the child to be old enough and make their own choice.

In my opinion getting your ears pierced is a right of passage for a little girl, the first step towards womanhood that should be done at a time when she will appreciate the event. I made my daughters wait until they were around 7 before getting them pierced and they were SO EXCITED!! The decision should be up to you and your fiance equally but you both have to think about her and what she will be missing if you don't wait.
Now, all of you other moms who had your daughter's ears pierced at an early age, don't think I'm insulting your decisions because I'm not. I just remember the look on my daughters' faces when the big day came, how proud and grown they felt.

I dont know if what you heard is true or not but I do know that there its common for infant girls to get their ears pierced...I didnt get mine done until I was 13 or 14 and my daughter just got hers done for her 13th birthday last month.

New babies are a lot to take care of. Tell your fiance that taking care of pierced ears are even more to take care of. You have to swab them and turn them and make sure no dirt gets in. And when she start figuring out her body parts she could pull an earring out and swallow it.

I did not get my daughters done until she asked when she was 7 for her birthday. good luck.

I am really against getting a baby's ear's pierced. It is not something they want or can even ask for at that age. The parents are just putting their child through pain for their own personal wants. It is so easy for those piercings to get infected and that would be so painful for that little one. I will wait until me daughter is older and let her decide if she wants her ears pierced. I know she will probably want to but I think it should be her decision, not mine.

I know that the sooner the better. When they are young like that it doesn't bother them that much. So you should go and get it done now. Have a nice one.

My little girl is 10 and has been begging me to get her ears pierced. I remember getting mine done (at the mall...yea I know, not the best place), at 18 and they got infected.

I really want her to be old enough to care for her ears properly as well as be responsible enough not to loose ear rings.

Maybe in a year or two, she will show me that she is ready.

Why would you want to do this in the first place? At this age I am sure that she has no burning desire to collect jewelry anyway. This being the case, it can only be that YOU want to adorn her like a Christmas tree for your own satisfaction. There are infection risks as well as the possibility of injury if she were to catch the earring on something while playing. Also, what happens when she decides to yank it out and try to swallow it? Since you have asked for advice, here goes...

Let her be an infant while she's an infant, and a little girl while she's a little girl. There will be plenty of time for her to disfigure herself when she is old enough to decide for herself. Don't rush it!

my parents pierced my ears since i am born because it is easier and safer to do it as young as possible... the risk of infections are minimised when piercing baby ears rather than when they get older because baby still don't eat many varieties of foods yet that can increase the risk of infections and they can't scratch yet... as they get older, they tend to eat more varieties of food and also more active... thus, it becomes harder to pierce the ears and the risk of infections is higher... that's what my parents tell me why they pierce my ears as soon as i am born... take care and have a nice day...