I held off when Brook was a baby with the whole ear piercing task. I knew one day she would ask why I've never got her ears pierced and I'd cave, take her down to the local Wal Mart or wherever they pierced little ears...
Now for the confession. I took advantage of her not being able to hear that loud clicking (which is the scariest part of getting them pierced!) and I fibbed, which I fully apologized for after the fact. I told her the lady would mark the spot with a pen (true) and then put the thing up to her ear which would squeeze her ear (all true and I demonstrated the squeeze)...but I didn't tell her a hole would be made and an earring shot through her earlobe...instead I told her it would squeeze her ear and measure it...(fib) When all was said and done, she took off her processors, the piercer squeezed her ears, a couple of dirty looks thrown in my direction from the tot, only a couple of tears shed...and she was fine. I apologized for not telling her the full truth but she understands why I did that...and she agreed that she would have not done it had I told her what that thing really was doing...but she is so happy and so glad she did it! She can't stop looking in the mirror!
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My little girl got her ears pierced a few weeks ago too! And she has almost the same earrings as Brooke. I was afraid to get her ears pierced because I didn't want it to hurt when she took her hearing aids off or put them in but it never seemed to bother her. :)
I'm a random viewer of your blog but also have a daughter with CI. I too decided to wait until she asked me to get her ears pierced, and she did this last week. I am wondering what your daughter has thought about her ear piercing after the fact. Does she still like them? Do they bother her processer at all? Has she had any complaints? Thanks for you help! Tami
Tami, she still loves them. She had a tough time at first keeping them from getting infected (but so did my niece) which had nothing to do w/her implants but we were consistant and kept them clean...finally after a year of wearing them persistantly she never had any more signs of trouble. She loves them and second grade was a big year for matching them, or putting in ice cream cones or whatever the other girls were wearing....
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