My daughter is 6 months old and I don't know how just yet but my mother-in-law managed to get her ears pierced. It was done in a salon.

We're dealing with the obvious breach of trust and all that because she pierced my daughter's ears after knowing we were waiting to do it when she's older as a rite of passage. She's obviously not going to have my daughter visiting unsupervised for a long time.

Anyway, we are torn between taking the earrings out and letting the holes grow in or just leaving the earrings in. My daughter has been grabbing her ears and I'm worried she's going to rip the earrings out, but it's also like ... What's done is done and she went through the pain already 🤷🏼‍♀️ if she keeps grabbing her ears we're going to take them out. But like does it make sense to take out the earrings otherwise?

Feb 24: we decided to take them out. My daughter kept grabbing her ears and was screaming because she was pulling on the earrings. I was terrified she was going to pull them out and either rip her ear or accidentally swallow an earring.

We talked to the salon and they said my mother-in-law gave them a written note giving parental consent for the piercing. There's not much we can do with them but they were apologetic.

I cleaned everything really well with saline and will continue to keep the area clean as it heals. I talked with an actual piercing artist on the phone and he said that the area should heal without any scars since she had the piercings for less than two days. Essentially it's a cut at this point. He gave us some tips for optimizing healing.

Once I took the earrings out my daughter stopped grabbing her ears and screaming. Now she just grabs her ears like she used to do pre-piercing. I'm going to be washing her little hands often with Aveeno baby body wash in addition to following her piercing care routine.