A MUM has divided opinion on social media after revealing she pierced her daughter’s ears when she was just one day old.
The woman took to TikTok, where she posts under her daughter Lara’s name, to share a video of the tot shortly after her birth compared to at three months old.
But people were quick to notice that the newborn was sporting tiny daisy earrings in her ear as she lay in the hospital bassinet – with hundreds taking to the comments section to weigh in on the controversial accessories.
“Wow, this is another level for me… I just can’t understand,” one person wrote.
“And it hurts the same as when they are older! Don’t fool yourself.”
As another added: “Why shouldn’t they get a choice if they want their ears pierced or not?
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“I am going to let my babies decide when they understand these things.”
And a third wrote: “Maybe it’s just me but on the day my children were born getting their ears pierced was very far down my list of concerns.”
However, hitting back, the mum insisted that her daughter barely felt a thing when she had her ears pierced.
She also revealed that the piercings were done by newborn doctors in the hospital where she was born.
“When they are 2-3 days old, they don’t feel pain like a year or two!” she wrote.
“The holes are given to them by neonatologists in the hospital at birth.”
And others also said that having piercings so young is often down to the person’s culture.
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“In my country they pierce the baby girls on the first day they are born,” one person wrote.
As another added: “In some cultures it is normal and also we could say the same thing about circumcision on babies.”
