piercing ears ??

If you did this to your dd, did she scream, and if so for how long? and when you got home and had to clean them did it bother her?

i am thinking about taking Madison today, DH finally said yes after saying no for sooooooooooo long, but i really don't know what i am in for!!

TIA

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Hayley cried for a few seconds, we gave her the pacifier and she calmed down instantly. That was it!!! I cleaned them with the solution they gave me when I changed her diaper. I think I had to do it 2 times a day? Hayley was 5 months old.

eta: They did both ears at the same time. I went to the booth outside of Build a Bear in Smithaven Mall. I was with my friend when she got her DD's done. They did 1 at a time and she screamed!!!! Don't recommend that way.

Message edited 7/26/2007 9:27:20 AM.

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lauren cried while they started to mark her ears and then while it wa being done ( think just bc she had no clue why everyone was around her).once it was done, she cried for not even a minute and then she was all happy looking around..she still has no clue that they are in lol

eta - it is really easy to take care of the earrings and she lets me w/out a problem..she was i think 9 weeks when we got them done

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i'm taking Chelsea on Sat. I got some numbing cream-the ped ok'd it

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Ella cried when they were marking her ears - that was the hardest part. Then the Dr. numbed her ears. She cried for a second when they actually pierced them. It was easy to take care of, we just had to put bacitracin on 2x's a day for 3 days and turn them everyday.

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Thanks girls ok i guess i am going to take her today!!

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DD got hers done at the ped's office on the same day as she got her 3 month shots (I know, I'm a mean mommy!). She cried for 30 seconds maybe...I fed her a bottle while they did them. To clean them...I got alcohol swaps and q-tips. I put some neosporin on the q-tips and cleaned them with the swabs 2x a day.

Now that she is older (10.5 months), it's more challenging to get her to stay still so I can take out the earrings and put in new ones. Sometimes I have DH try ti distract her while I do it.

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DD cried for a tad...I stuck a bottle in after she was done.

She was actually really good, better than I thought she would be.

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Yes, Julia did cry but only for a few seconds, all I had to do was walk her around the store and show her things to get her mind off it and she stopped.

She was 3 months when we got them done!

I had to clean them with a q-tip and alcohol 3 times a day for a few weeks.

Never had any problems with them.

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Kaitee got them done the same day she got her shots done. So she was already grumpy. She cried for less than a minute. They did it one ear at a time and she didn't start to cry untill they did the second ear. She never seemed to notice when I cleaned them so I am assumeing they never bugged her.

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