Ears Pierced?

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Just asking this on behalf of my mum...

The twins are now almost five months old.

She's really struggling to tell them apart on the best of days and has been thinking about getting their ears pierced so she can do something with earrings to tell them apart.

We both think it is maybe a little too young, but that said we both know a lot of European families who have had their girls done at birth.

Her rational is that at the moment they both sleep on their backs and will continue to while their ears heal - whereas were she to wait until eighteen months like with me it will be difficult for them to sleep etc while they're healing.

What are your opinions?
Any other ideas?

They have bracelets which are obviously nearly always not visible and lockets is out of the question as they will choke. They're too small for headbands so it seemed like a feasible idea?

[Olive]

what about nail polish?

[Erin_25]

I don't see a problem with it, though it's really personal choice. Many babies have it done & I've known many that have had no probs at all with them & bubs has not played with them or anything like that. I know several parents who have had it done just to save people asking "boy or girl".....I will admitt I prob would get my daughter done around that age if I had one.

[paradise lost]

I'd do something else - even just buy different colours for them (so pink for one, yellow for the other) until they were bigger, or use the nail polish idea. To me ear piercing is so permanent. It's like getting a tattoo put on them! I'd not want to do that to anyone unless they WANTED it done. And yes, i'm in the UK where there are 3 week old babies pierced already, but i REALLY don't like that! I know at least 2 babies (one boy, one girl) who have had their studs ripped out in exuberant play as toddlers. Not nice at all!

By the time they are 18mos she'll be able to tell them apart by the way they move, talk, act - their personalities come out alot more once they get a bit bigger.

Bx

[Nadine216]

Why not try the following:

Get them brooches with their names on
Use different colour ribbons for their hair (if there are enough) or hairclips
Write their names in marker on the bottom of their shoes.
I love the nail polish idea and also dressing them in different colours.

I think that pierced ears are a personal choice, like getting a tattoo. Although if you feel like getting their ears pierced so early, that is entirly up to you. I am just giving my opinion.

[Shellbelle]

I had both my daughter's ears pierced at 5mths. I don't see a problem with it - so if she thinks it is a solution for her then why not!!!!

[~breeze~]

I don't think it's a problem either. I had DD's ears pierced for her first birthday but a friend of mine had her daughter ears pierced around the age of 2 months (or earlier?)
I say if thats what you want go for it