I was 7 when I got mine done & had nothing but problems with them (but that is still the case & just my ears I think). Panda was about 6 I think when she got hers done. I'm not a huge fan of pierced ears on babies but that's JMO. I do agree with everyone else about not going behind your DH's back though - as one PP put it, you have to think about if the situation were reversed, how would you feel.

I have a gf who said she wasn't going to get it done because she wanted to take her to get it done when she was old enough to feel and remember the pain so she wouldn't go nuts and get herself pierced all over in her teens.
Had to laugh at that, if only it were that easy! I have a daughter who is so bad with any kind of pain - that is apart from that which she chooses to inflict on herself - she has pierced her own ears 6 times now, by herself and is continually nagging for more piercings - this is the same girl that it takes me weeks to get her in for a blood test because she "doesn't like needles"...