Posted on 06/08/2020 12:19:05 PM PDT by Morgana
Saw that one on my hubby’s back up phone. I turned them off on my phone. I hate being jarred awake at 4am for an alert that is hours away from our general area.
I wasn’t insulted at all. Sorry.
I had my girl’s ears pierced at three months.
I’m white, and had both my girls ears pierced at 3 months.
I got the amber alert too. Praying the baby will be found safe.
Piercing baby girl’s ears is common among Caucasian people of several ethnic groups, too-mine were pierced when I was 3-4 days old, and one of my aunts pierced my daughter’s ears at 3 days of age-I’m Hispanic-all the girls in our family had ears pierced a few days after birth-mostly so that everyone seeing the kid would know it is a female child because she is wearing earrings.
I had two more piercings of my ears done later as an adult when it first became fashionable-I still wear 3 earrings in each ear-but I’m not into other body parts being pierced...
Ear piercing is nothing compared to circumcising baby boys-but it is a Jewish religious custom that goes back thousands of years and is mentioned in the Bible, and I respect Jewish custom. Most of my family members do not/have not have/had their boy babies circumcised-but we are Catholic, not Jewish...
LOL! When I was little, I asked my mom why even my female cousins who were babies had pierced ears-she told me it was so everyone would know they were girl babies-it makes sense...
I hope they find this baby really fast-mental illness is a terrible thing-if this mother is suicidal, that little one is in major danger...
I was thinking about circumcision being far more painful too.
These stories have reminded me of my own quest for pierced ears, and my mother’s fury when I did it. Come to think of it, the entire story would fill a chapter in a book. LOL
It’s actually fairly common.
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