I love clothes shopping for women in general. I am glad I don't have a boy! Though I understand the inappropriate kids clothes these days - it is getting pretty silly. We dress Smallsteps like a kid. Her "good clothes" are still demure.
In Ecuador, ears get pierced almost directly after birth.
I think a lot of cultures are the same. I wonder if doing it young means that they are less likely to be level or straight?
I'm not sure, I haven't paid much attention to that. As long as the holes a re centered, I doubt it makes much of a difference. The first years it's just a little spot earring anyway, the bigger stuff comes later.