1. I read that the nerve ending study was found to be completely untrue. And that they DO feel pain as infants. We chose not to do it either. If Erika wants pierced ears when she gets older, she can torture herself by choice.
2. SIL sounds nuts.
3. Do you need a listening ear re: PPD? I'm here if you want to talk to another (relatively new) mother. clangpen at gmail
I don't understand why people pierce babies' ears. Don't they require enough cleaning without an extra thing? I got my last set at 15 and I STILL had trouble with them.
I am really sorry to hear about your diagnosis. It absolutely sucks. I know we're fairly new LJ friends, but if you want to talk, I'm around a lot. There's a couple good PPD websites as well (http://www.postpartumprogress.com/ is really good) and a fairly regular Twitter chat (#ppdchat).
Exactly. Not to mention if she inherits my DNA, she is so screwed in the piercing department. I've done my nose, nipples and navels, as well as my ears. My navel was never done correctly and, in fact, I had it pierced twice but it never really healed properly. Now I have a nice, nasty skin discoloration there as a result. I also let my nose and nipple piercings close up.
I don't know, it's like my skin wasn't meant to be pierced, or something! I don't have any noticeable scars where those body parts were pierced except for my navel, as I already mentioned. If I had known it would be such a pain in the ass, I wouldn't have gone through with it. I regret even doing my ears a second time because I never even bother to put rings in them.
I appreciate you reaching out. What's so weird is I really thought PPD would be different. I thought I'd be hating my child and rejecting her, but I'm having the opposite problem. I'm hating and rejecting just about everybody else. I don't know.
Piercing a baby's ears is right up there with tattooing a dog in things i don't get. Ok I get the want for identification purposes but even then I don't get it at the same time
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I also feel like body modification ought to be a choice. I mean, what favor did my parents do me by having me get them done SO young? I don't know how old I was, because there aren't many baby pictures of me floating around, but I know it was done before I turned three. And for what purpose? So I could continually lose earrings because I wasn't old enough or responsible enough to take care of them? Great.
And yes, my sister-in-law. If only she was coherent enough to write a memoir. No telling what she'd come up with, really. Same with the in-laws.
PPD...who knows. There's a lot of stuff I haven't been telling LJ about.
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2. SIL sounds nuts.
3. Do you need a listening ear re: PPD? I'm here if you want to talk to another (relatively new) mother. clangpen at gmail
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*Ducks and curses his habit of inserting sarcasm when he has nothing of value to offer*
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I am really sorry to hear about your diagnosis. It absolutely sucks. I know we're fairly new LJ friends, but if you want to talk, I'm around a lot. There's a couple good PPD websites as well (http://www.postpartumprogress.com/ is really good) and a fairly regular Twitter chat (#ppdchat).
Good luck. It's a long haul.
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I don't know, it's like my skin wasn't meant to be pierced, or something! I don't have any noticeable scars where those body parts were pierced except for my navel, as I already mentioned. If I had known it would be such a pain in the ass, I wouldn't have gone through with it. I regret even doing my ears a second time because I never even bother to put rings in them.
I appreciate you reaching out. What's so weird is I really thought PPD would be different. I thought I'd be hating my child and rejecting her, but I'm having the opposite problem. I'm hating and rejecting just about everybody else. I don't know.
Thank you for the resources!
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And yes, my sister-in-law. If only she was coherent enough to write a memoir. No telling what she'd come up with, really. Same with the in-laws.
PPD...who knows. There's a lot of stuff I haven't been telling LJ about.
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