Piercing Expert Talks About Infant's Ear Piercings

To pierce or not to pierce? This professional has A LOT to say about piercing children's ears.

Transcript

00:00A mother called the shop and said,

00:01hey, can I come in and get my infant's ears pierced?

00:04She's six weeks old.

00:05And I said, no, I don't do that.

00:08And she said, well, why not?

00:10And I said, well, because it's a health and safety

00:14risk for your child.

00:24I could go on forever with the risks involved

00:27in why you should not pierce infant's ears.

00:37You got an infant child whose ears hurt,

00:40and unless mom and dad are going to not sleep for four months

00:44and they're going to constantly monitor their child

00:47to literally 24 hours a day, seven days a week

00:50to keep their child from sticking their hands

00:52in their mouth and then touching their ears,

00:56there's going to be an issue while healing that's

00:59a potential infection right there.

01:04A six-month-old baby, a six-week-old baby,

01:08a one-year-old baby, nobody in any of those age brackets

01:13is even remotely capable of giving their own consent

01:19to get pierced.

01:27Don't rob your kids of that experience

01:30by doing it when they're six weeks old

01:33and having them grow up with crooked, uneven piercings.

01:41It's just, just don't do it.