In September of last year, I
took a break from my pregnancy complications to discuss ear piercing in
"Life is full of barbaric customs." --Vada Sultanfuss. My husband was
opposed to doing something permanent to my daughter’s body without giving her a
say and I wanted to go with tradition.
In our family baby girls get their ears pierced as newborns. My husband’s view was much more feminist than
my traditional view.
My daughter did get her ears pierced recently and my husband held her as it happened. We decided to go with tradition, and I have
to say the moment though petrifying for me, as a mother, could not have been
more meaningful.  |
| Recovering |
On my birthday we took my
daughter to get her ears pierced and in attendance, besides her father and me,
were two aunts and her three older girl cousins. We stood by her as she had this permanent
change made to her body, one that all of us ladies had also endured as babies. We winced. We worried. We smiled. My daughter cried, but was over it in
minutes. I hope the spirit of that
day will live on. She will have many permanent life-altering moments in her future, but she will get through them with
the support of some of the most amazing females in her life, and her feminist father.
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| Team get Catalina's Ear's Pierced |
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