Tongue Piercing

First off, I'm opposed to tongue piercings. I will allow my daughters to get their ears pierced once, but if they want to defile their body they will have to wait until they are out of my house to do it. Well, parents aren't always able to enforce the rules that they set, no matter how hard they try.

We've had a little rebellion in our house lately. In the last 2 months Evie has tried to pierce her tongue twice. And, this time she may have succeeded. I'll post pictures when I can get them. After all she doesn't exactly stick her tongue out on command. We don't even know what happened this time. Last time she was walking with her tongue and fell flat on her chin. This time she was in the other room alone when Trish heard screaming. No other children were around so this must have been self inflicted.

Perhaps she thinks that this is the easiest way to get a Popsicle to suck on in the winter. Or she really wants a tongue stud. What ever the reason, I drove up and Holly came running out to the car to tell me, "I have to come get you! Evie's tongue is all bleeding! Hurry!" When I get in there she is happily sucking on her otter pop in Mommy's lap. Since we don't normally stitch tongues in the medical world unless they are dangling we didn't go to the emergency room. We'll just use q-tips dipped in Hydrogen Peroxide, which it turns out Evie likes to suck on too. So it's a nice clean bite with a hole about the size of a pencil.

We'll watch it, but don't be surprised if she grows up with a divot in her tongue if she tries this too many more times.