
“Ear piercing is essentially a medical procedure, and we pride ourselves in hiring our nurses, who are the experts, when it comes to skin integrity, infection prevention and keeping patients calm in unfamiliar situations.

The dad said their two-week-old baby was "fine with needles".“We could not be more thrilled to open Rowan’s very first Texas studio to provide Texans with a celebratory and safe piercing experience,” says Rowan founder and CEO Louisa Serene Schneider in a release. Staying calm and collected, the piercing expert explained to the customers that they would never go younger than eight years old and even then "it's a case of informed consent", adding: "You kind of have to have a conversation with your kid and find out whether it's something they want to go through with, whether they are comfortable having them pierced and whether they are alright with us using needles". The body piercer replied: "I'm sorry sir, how old is your baby?," to which the person had replied that their baby was two weeks old.Īdhum says the focus then was: "heavily on not letting my inside voice pop off, exuding expletives I never realised I knew", but actually replied: "No I'm sorry, we wouldn't pierce your baby's ears at two weeks old". The parent had come in and asked if they did piercings, to which Adhum replied: "Yes, we are a piercing studio."Īdhum claims the customer asked: "Can I please get my baby's ears pierced?" reports The Mirror. Adhum Price, a Professional Cosmetic Body Piercer at Blue Banana, took to TikTok to share the interaction he had with the dad.

A piercer has said they had to explain to a parent why they wouldn't pierce a two-week-old baby's ears.
