Back the fuck off! It was bad enough when random strangers rubbed my pregnant belly without asking, now they go for my baby! Yes, pregnancy is fascinating. Yes, babies are adorable. This does not give you the right to touch a strangers baby. You don’t touch random people, so why their babies? And don’t tell me you have three grandchildren as if that makes it okay that you are sticking your finger in my babies mouth… When was the last time you washed your hands? Cold season is here. Feel free to admire her from a distance, and if you really feel like you need to say hello, ASK MY PERMISSION FIRST!!!
—Mom
This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2009.
If I were to ever get pregnant the weirdness of having a creature growing inside my belly would consume me and I would go insane.
No worries, PAS. If your body is built for it then instinct also comes with it. Feeling baby move would give you a thrill like no other. It’s not yucky when it’s you.
As if people actually try to touch a strangers’ baby without permission. What is wrong with some people?
AMEN Mom..
I posted a bitch a while back about a drunken stinky man trying to touch mine!…
Yuck. I would never touch a pregnant woman’s stomach. What if one of those critters from Alien popped out of there! Oh wait, that’s called a baby now.
I once had a complete stranger come up to my baby and try to pick him up from his stroller. I slapped that prick right in the face and told him if he touched my child again I would kick him sqwa in the Nootz. I probably should have been charged with assault but any other mother would know what I was talking about.
Expatriot, I’m sure that would be one of the many crazy thoughts on my mind.
I hated that when I was pregnant and my was an infant. You couldn’t walk through the mall without people doing that!!
I wonder what these same people would do if they happened upon a bear cub in the woods. All I know is I would buy tickets to see it.
While I can’t deny that when I see an infant (newborn especially) I just want to grab his/her tiny little fingers, YOU DO NOT TOUCH SOMEONE ELSE’S KID UNLESS INVITED. Period. For all this poor baby’s parents know you could’ve just shoved your hand down your pants to scratch your ass.
I really don’t understand why people think a preggo belly or a new baby is community property. I mean, I’ve seen women in this city who…well weren’t pregnant, but you could easily make that assumption…if I was in that situation and looked like I was preggers when i wasn’t I’d drop kick the motherfucker who placed their hands on my fat gut.
When I was pregnant, like 7 mths or so, I had a taxi driver ask me how far along I was and as a joke I, in the most offended voice I could muster, told him I wasn’t pregnant. He turned bright red and started stuttering. We both had a great laugh. Then he told me that he asked a lady how far along she was once and she actually wasn’t pregnant and got quite pissed off at him. He said he rarely asks woman anymore.
I don’t understand why people think its okay to touch strangers and their kids. I really would love to be in their heads when they did that. And there’s always the unsolicited “advice” that strangers find necessary to bestow on pregnant woman and new parents.
Maybe people think it’s okay to touch strangers because people around here think it’s okay to solve problems with their fists. A nice stroking must be some kind of gift if that’s how you think.
I know I would feel like punching someone if they touched my baby without asking. It’s the whole tiger/mama bear instinct thing… But that doesn’t mean I actually would “solve the problem with my fists” as Kay would put it. More likely I would tell the stranger to back off and explain to them how rude and indecent it is to touch the baby without consent of the parent… if it was my body I could slap you with harassment, why not when it’s my baby?
EVERY DAY at least two or three, sometimes more people touch or try to touch my baby while we are out and about. It’s driving me CRAZY! I dont even touch her hands while we are out on the bus without cleaning them because it is just gross. Why can’t they go for the feet? I mean feet are cute-and COVERED. Yuck. Sorry-I was just about to bitch about this when I saw this post!!! It’s like preggers bellies and wee bebe hands are public property-please share in the joy of life with me but for gods sakes keep your fucking hands to yourself. I am constantly smiling and asking people to not touch her-and they seriously get offended! Like I am the one being rude. It makes me want to hit them-even the sweet little old ladies (with their nasty bus fingers!).
NtotheAdine-some terrible hag tried to pick up my first daughter in the grocery store. I was 21-brand new mom and the baby started crying as we were checking out and I was rushing to get to the car to feed her-she was about 7 days old. This lady went to UNBUCKLE her from the carseat while cooing “Is your mom a bad mom, what a bad mom!” Stupid #@$%-I withheld from hitting but I looked so fierce she ran away. Stupid people.
Who the hell goes around randomly touching people? Are these the same people with no concept of personal space who get right up in your grill and just keep on coming as you continue to back away? How do people get like that, anyway?
Given the fact that babies tend to put their tiny little hands in their mouthes, people with half a brain should figure that it’s probably a bad idea to touch a baby’s hands. I mean, maybe it’s just because I’m a bit obsessive with the hand washing, but even I wouldn’t touch my own baby’s hands without making sure they were clean. Like I said, how do we know you didn’t just have your hand down your pants scratching your ass?
That’s it, I’m purchasing a bubble for my children to live in 😛 People have no fucking common sense these days.
I agree with you on every level. I have a three month old who I carry around in a sling and people try to peer in when she’s sleeping or talk to right to her as if I’m not even there.
I understand babies are cute but they are new and belong to the mother so give us some space.
Thank you for bitching about it.
Once an elderly lady stroked my wife’s 8-month pregnant belly saying “Well it won’t be long now.” Unimpressed and without a pause, my wife reached out and pointed at the old lady’s chest near her heart and said the same thing. That pretty much ended the interaction.
How rude.
I would always be worried that the child would grow up to become…..a hare krishna!
I could never understand this. I was pregnant once and I never had ANYONE EVER try to rub my belly. Maybe I give off a “Fuck Off” aura. This is something I hear happens to all pregnant women, but it never happened to me. If someone did try to rub my belly, I would probably pull a fake and get out of the way before they touched me.