Baby Zone offers opinions from parents on both sides of the aisle and then provides helpful information on avoiding infections, as well as discussing concerns regarding keloid formations and allergic reactions. “If you think your daughter may have an allergic reaction to nickel,” the article’s expert adds, “choose nickel-free earrings, 14 karat gold, surgical steel, or earrings labeled for sensitive ears.”
The BabyCenter features a forum of parents offering personal stories from both sides. Where some feel it should be up to the child when she is old enough to decide for herself, others feel that the pain is easier to get over if inflicted as an infant.
In this Babies Online blog, the author gives multiple reasons why she would put earrings on babies. She also includes a link to a visual of a child getting her ears pierced. To those who look to piercing to confirm a baby’s gender, she states, “…if you don’t like strangers thinking your baby is a boy, isn’t that what pink outfits, dresses, hair bows and barrettes are for?”
Steady Health reviews the pros and cons of infant ear piercing, as well as issues toward infections; more specifically the concern regarding piercing guns. “There is no reason to risk a serious health problem for a cosmetic effect,” the author states, and later adds, “If you wish to have your infant’s ears pierced, it is probably safer to ask you pediatrician if she would do it for you with a needle.”
Pregnancy and Baby features a question and answer forum about earrings on babies with an MD. “Ear piercing is a safe procedure for your infant,” the doctor states, “Obviously it is a personal choice whether you want to have your baby's ears pierced before she (or he) decides on their own.” Following a question on piercing the ears of a three month old, the MD continues with the medical considerations every parent should consider.
Associated Content provides information on how to take care of your infant’s ears once you have had them pierced. “Since an infant (and some toddlers) cannot vocalize that their ear is itchy, sore, or tender, you will have to watch out for them,” the author insists.
Mamashares on the earrings on babies debate
The concept behind earrings is to add beauty or enhance beauty, so with this in mind, I would refrain from piercing my baby girl's ears. I personally don't think that it is worth the anguish, no matter how brief it may be, for the sake of beauty. When my child is at an age where I feel it is appropriate for her to "enhance her beauty," I will allow her to pierce her ears. My guess is that she will be older than ten years old. I think that this would be something to look forward to.
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Baby Ear Piercing 
Walking past a jewelry store and seeing a baby crying as she gets her ears pierced with baby earrings brings up the controversial question regarding earrings on babies. Some parents feel that baby ear piercing is easier than dealing with an older child who is aware of the forthcoming pain, and therefore makes it more difficult when the time comes. Other parents consider baby piercing with cultural or religious reasoning.
Clarifying a baby’s identity is also a justification for some parents. However, there are just as many parents who would not conceive of inflicting the pain for grounds of the pain, while others would rather leave the decision to the child.
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