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Tips to Avoid Hospital Visits with Regard to Ear Piercing

If you decide to get your daughter’s ears pierced. Print out the following list of tips and keep it somewhere handy. Make sure that you, the baby’s father and any caregivers that take care of the baby are aware of these tips. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 1. Apply ear antiseptic or solution (such as alcohol) as approved by your doctor to clean the site of the ear piercing. 2. Be sure to keep the infant’s ears cleaned thoroughly to provide a sterile environment during the first six weeks after an ear piercing. This will … Continue reading →

Health Concerns With Regard to Ear Piercing

Okay, you’ve decided to go ahead and get your daughter’s ears pierced. Medical experts agree that you should: Wait till after the second set of immunizations Be sure the piercing instruments are sterile Once the ears are pierced, you need to make sure that the earrings are kept in a sterile environment. That means you should twist the earrings once or a twice a day during the first few weeks after the piercing. Be sure to clean the back and front of the ear with a q-tip and some alcohol. You should remove the earrings once a week, at least … Continue reading →

Piercing Your Baby’s Ears

When my daughter was born, a lot of people asked me if I was going to get her ears pierced. After all, my ears are pierced and my husband has one pierced ear. Everyone in the family has pierced ears and several old friends pierced their children’s ears when they were infants. I elected to not pierce my daughter’s ears as an infant primarily because that’s a choice she should be able to make for herself when she is older. I felt this way for any number of reasons, but the largest was that such a change to her body … Continue reading →