It is also common in Italian families to do the baby's ears quite young.
My mom was British, however, and refused.
When I was to start school (age 6), I had to get all those shots. And one was the polio vaccine. I get keloids. This is common in people of Mediterranean cultures. Lucky I didn't have pierced ears, as I'd have 4, one on each side of each ear lobe! (I've attached a pic of what it looks like on an ear for someone who gets these.)
I drove my mum crazy as a 14 year old when many of my friends were getting pierced ears. I wanted them SO badly! Even though I understood I couldn't do it medically, I was a kid and still WANTED it! (My poor mum!) So it was a good thing mine weren't done as an infant, and we waited until we knew more about my body.
No one in my family on either side had EVER had keloids, it was a totally new thing to everyone. Not sure HOW I happen to develop them; although they are hereitary.
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