I'm curious about it getting infected - as I said in a previous post, I had mine done at 8 and they were infected for a very long time, as a PP said - I could only wear sleepers to stop it being infected and even now - 21 years later, if I wear studs, they still get infected. I have also got a nose piercing which I have had for about 10 years - it got badly infected for the first 3 or 4 years as well. I thought I must just be a person likely to get infections with my piercings but all my piercings were done with a gun (I also have 7 other piercings in my ears also done with a gun but none of them were infected like my lobes and nose). So guns are more likely to cause infection? and playing with the earrings? I never knew that. I don't remember the piercing itself being painful, I remember the weeks following being quite horrendous painwise - that it what turns me off having my baby's ears done the most. I also didn't realise peircings were permanant because if I take mine out for more than a few days, my holes all close over ...
I think we have the same ears

As I said before, I put it down to, that's just my ears... being that they are the same now as they were then. Panda has the same problems if she wears cheap earrings for too long, she can only wear them for a few hours.
On a side note, this means that I have had to buy her surgical sleepers for all the holes SHE has inflicted on her ears without our permission. What a stink when I suggested that since she had done it, she could pay for the earrings....