Annoying People in the Shops!!!

Its the same when you are pregnant and total strangers just wander over in Woolies and start stroking your stomach and smiling at you ... and you are staring at them thinking ... freak, stop touching me.

It would be really funny to reach over and start rubbing thier breast gently and smiling back at them .... oh I just want to be pregnant now to try it!!

can just imagine that RM
But yes, you have the right to decide who can touch your baby and who cant.

I think I would start stroking the person like they are stroking the baby, and see how they like to be touched!!

People instictively want to reach out and touch your baby - but my last two kids were winter babies so I just realised that every time someone touches them they are getting exposed to what ever germs they last sneezed/coughed on to thier hands.

I would either put my hand out as they reached and say "please don't" - most people would react like I slapped them through thier face and kicked them in the groin!!

But I would explain that I spent one week in the paed section with baby number 2 when she was 14 days old, as she picked up a cold that she just could not fight off and got so ill it was very disturbing.

I learnt my lesson there.

When anyone reaches for my child I flash back to the week of not sleeping, sitting in that ridiculous lazy boy chair which does not recline enough, at Milnerton Medi-Clinic whilst they keep the flourescent lights on 24/7 days and you are so sleep deprived and worried about your tiny baby who has a tube coming out of thier forehead as it is the only place they could get an intravenous line.

So that is how I logic it out, and that is why I say "no please don't touch" or stop thier hand mid-air.

We are way too polite and let total strangers do things that we do not want them to do, because we are too scared of being rude of making them uncomfortable.

A week in the paed unit cured me of that problem.

I also have that problem but I just wipe her down if someone got too close. Think it's just one of those things!

How do you all feel about people touching your babies - I really cant stand it!!! I am a regular and my local Spar and the staff there always fuss him, which I dont mind because they know me and they know him but that is not a license for everyone else to play with him... get your grubby paws off my child!!!

I must admit that I do get proud when people stop and tell me I have a beautiful child - still doesnt give them the right to touch him