Where to get ears pierced for a baby - Munich

I have a 7 months old baby girl and want to get her ears pierced.Pls suggest me some places where I can get it done and what is the appropriate age for the babies to get the ears pierced.
Also,someone could suggest what do they put after piercing.Do I need to carry a gold string or do the jewellers help me out ???

IMHO - NEVER!

I agree. Are you doing this so that everyone will know she's a girl at first sight?

CHAV ALERT. Appropriate age? 14

I sorta agree...I'd say when SHE asks for it. 10...14...somewhere in there sounds alright.

Sorry I can't help you, but I'm curious to know why you want to get your baby's ears pierced?

Why not wait until she's old enough to decide for herself. In my opinion too she's far too young.

Hm, dunno. Maybe you should try the place where they trim dog's ears to make them more pointy, or wherever it is they do circumcision for older boys.

In my opinion the same age you would allow a son of yours a prince albert

Why on earth would you want to do this? Its not like the baby wants them so its just for yourself really. Let the kid decide herself when she gets a bit older as to whether she would like pierced ears or not.

Agreed. Pierced ears on babies looks so tacky not to mention cruel.

in some cultures (Indian, S. American), such as mine, babies get their ears pierced very early, sometimes within the first few days. I actually read not too long ago that babies have a much higher threshold at that time since the birthing process is so painful as is. but here's a site i found.

http://www.drgreene.org/body.cfm?id=21&...ail&ref=342

I'm not alone in my perversion that never pierced ears on an adult female are beautiful.

A physiotherapist of mine has never pierced ears, and she told me her father refused to allow her to get them pierced until she was 18, and when she was 18 she no longer wanted to mutilate herself. I told her to give my respect to her father.

Piercing babies ears is common in Spain and other Meditaranian countries

It wouldn't surprise me to find that it is not allowed here.

Though not on good taste grounds which plainly it should be, but on some lesbian left wing human rights nonsense reason.

My mother got my ears pierced when I was a baby. I have to say, it's probably the only thing she's ever done in my life that has really pissed me off. If you want to stick metal through your own flesh then I'm all for it (well, I am for your right to do it anyway, some of it can be pretty ugly) - but don't go sticking metal shit through people who are so small they can't even protest or understand the fucking point of it.
I don't wear earrings any more.

OK, so far that's 15 against. Do we have someone in favour? Kylie, where are you?

my parents pierced my ears as a baby, and i've never really thought about the "issues" behind it until now.

ok, thought about it and i'm still fine with the fact that they did it.

Oh dear, you really don't want to see me today, then.

I had Haggis Junior's ears pierced at Christ (jewelery shop) when she was two years old and easily comforted with an ice cream cone. She refused to wear earrings from years 8 through 16 but the holes were still there, albeit almost invisible. Now she is disgruntled because she is allergic to various metals and can only wear gold comfortably.

As nokareyes pointed out, some cultures do it at an early age. I was speaking to an Indian woman and was surprised that her 1-year-old daughter didn't have earrings, she asked the same question: Where can she have it done in Germany?

I suppose you can liken piercing ears or other body parts to de-clawed cats and Spock ears on dogs if you like, just don't slag people off who do it just because you think that it's disgusting/unnatural/unhygienic. I had to fight for my first two piercings, it was the first time I dared "hit back", something I should have done much earlier.

Wouldn't thinking someone's actions are disgusting, unnatural, unhygienic, or (in my case) unnecessarily brutal be among the best reasons to slag people off?

brutal?? they don't pierce it with a nail and hammer you know... it takes 2 seconds

@ Fribble: I'm not saying you can't feel that way but you don't have to tell them. It's like the guy chewing gum on the S-Bahn next to me - a disgusting habit in my opinion but I have the option of sitting somewhere else or trying to ignore him. If you don't like piercings, roll your eyes, shrug your shoulders and look away.

Same as me. Ice cream, later refusal to wear them, bla bla. Thanks ma'.


...and? Some cultures mutilate girls in other ways too.

yep. Different scale, same shit.

Why not? Are you just saying these things are subjective?

I think it's the fact that it's being done to a 7 month old baby that elicits such a strong reaction in people. I know different cultures do things differently, but that just makes a lot of people go 'EWW'. For God's sake, won't somebody THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

Thanks a lot for all your suggestions..

Guess after your reactions I will not do this to my kid anyway...

Nice mommy!
Wait until she asks for it. Plenty of other pretty things she can have until then, which don't involve blood or cartilage.

TT to the rescue!

@ Sarabyrd, it's like triumph bob says. I know where you're coming from, but I disagree with you totally. Bad manners don't cause physical pain (most of the time) and I don't find them morally objectionable, just annoying. Having had my share of piercings I know exactly how it feels, and I find it as unnecessarily barbaric to subject a baby to this as to dock an animal's tail. Nor is there any cultural argument for piercing a baby's ears in our society; no baby or toddler will be a pariah because of whole lobes.

Though, to be honest, if someone is really smacking their gum next to me I usually turn to them and make loud smacking noises. Or I do the passive aggressive thing and call a friend to describe the scene loudly while staring at their gaping maw.

Well done , you're not an idiot.

Gee, thanks parnell.

who would have thought that getting your kid's ears pierced would be a "moral" issue

Re when to get them pierced - ...here in Germany I had mine pierced when I was about 4. In Portugal it's common practice to pierce babies ears...it depends on the culture I guess, but I'm not sure if there is actually a law or something similar that decides this for you, I don't believe there is.

I most definitly do want to see you today, and am well looking forward to it. In the same way I don't eat meat but will ne be upset by your chewing into dead animal vindaloo. BTW the girlfriend has quite a few piercings, but none on her ears.

My views on piercing/causing bodily injury to other persons , without their informed consent are clear from other topics. "Culture" or even "religion" doesn't wash with me when it comes to this.

My biggest objection to this is on safety grounds. Children do the daftest things and having bits of metal, especially rings, sticking out of their bodies, just asking to get caught on something has always struck me as stupid. That's why neither of my girls had their ears pieced until they were about 10 years old, which is when they asked for it to be done.

Piercing earrings are generally small posts that are pretty much flush with your earlobes, the risk of injury is very small.
*sticking to facts*

Now I grant you it's a long time since I had anything pierced, but I thought piercing studs were huge great gold things that sat flush with bugger all.

I think you can get tiny 'sleepers' earrings for babies, little tiny hoops. have seen babies with studs in though which must be really dangerous cuz they catch on everything.
I'd never pierce my babies' ears. when I got my ears done (at age 16 I think) there was a baby getting her ears pierced too and she was so distressed and screaming poor thing.
to me it just looks wrong on a baby, like make-up on those little pageant girls.

anyway what's wrong with clip-ons?!

If you're worried about people mistaking your baby girl for a boy, get her one of these head garters.
I find them ridiculously funny.

I don't have a problem with people having their babies' ears pierced. I'd argue that it's easier for a parent to keep the area clean and therefore less likely to get infected when the child is an infant. I had my ears pierced when I was 13 and didn't do the best job of cleaning the area, but at that age, I'd never have let my mom do it.

I don't understand the argument that it's not OK to pierce their ears until they ask for it. A child who wants her ears pierced at 10 is just as likely to regret it later as a child whose ears were pierced in babyhood. I remember being very afraid of the pain in advance of getting my ears pierced, which an infant or small child would not experience. Most of the adult women I know have at least one hole in each ear and wear earrings, so why does it matter when they have it done?

I would think clip-ons on a baby would be more dangerous b/c they can easily pull them off and swallow them, no?

And if the kid decides she doesn't like earrings, I've always found them to be pretty easy to remove.

As for places, most doctors can pierce ears if you bring the studs.

"Do-it-Yourself" piercing kits (incl. studs) are available in karstadt/kaufhof (don't remember which one) for approx. € 15-20.

this is just getting funny now ...

Why buy a kit when all you need is a needle, a cork and ice?

That's much cheaper...

And a hammer!! Otherwise you might struggle a little bit until you manage to put the needle through.

Obviously the needle should be sharp...

Where the hell did you get yours done! cartilage piercing is normally forbidden under the age of 16 and the ear should never draw blood. I should know i have a liecense in the UK to pierce ears.

On the whole baby getting ear pierced argument. I had my first set done when i was about three at the same time as my older sister who was 10 at the time. according to my mum mine healed a lot quicker than my sisters as she had more control over mine. Plus i didn't cry as much as my older sis

Seeing a ripped ear lob makes me shutter.

Licensed to pierce ears. Bet that stops conversations dead at parties!

Only in UK though. Probably much higher standards required over here to pierce ears.