First belly touch

[picksthemusic]

Yeah, you have every right to tell people to not touch you. That's your personal space.

But sometimes people think because there's a baby in your belly that it's public property.

Sorry you had to have a random hand on you!

Next time, say, "Okay, now do I get to touch your belly?" and see how they respond.

[melsamoony]

OMG they didn't even ask!?!? The only time I ever touched a pregnant woman's belly was when she grabbed my hand and put it on her belly and said "do you feel her kicking?"

Oh man idk if I am ready for this lol.

[robyn]

I find it so strange that just because you are growing a baby, people think it's okay to touch you!! On Saturday my BFF had a little too much to drink at a fundraiser we were all at and kept grabbing my belly. Except she was drunk and kept getting boob instead. I asked her to stop and she wouldn't. So the last time she did it I kicked her and told her to watch out, my baby kicks. I really don't even have a noticeable baby bump yet because I was overweight before I got pregnant. There's nothing to grab that wasn't there before! It's so inappropriate. I'm sorry your co-worker did that.

[loira]

Ugh, yeah no. I'm just hoping my look of death will stop people from doing that. My colleague is 24 and oddly interested in my pregnancy. Not in a weird way, but more in a sweet and innocent way because in his words 'you are the first pregnant woman I know'. But even HE asked if, when the time came, he could touch my belly and feel the baby move. I said so long as he asks first that I'd probably let him.

[winemaker]

Feb 21, 2014 11:57:38 GMT -5 robyn said:

So the last time she did it I kicked her and told her to watch out, my baby kicks.

This made me laugh! You are awesome!

[statlerwaldorf]

My mom is a belly toucher and it drives me nuts. The first time I was really early, so really all you are doing is jiggling my belly fat. I have no idea how I would react with a coworker.

[rbp]

Yeah, if someone touches my belly fat right now, I will be tempted to punch them in the face.

/angry pregnant lady

[blushing]

I was ok with the belly touching last time. What I was not ok with was strangers touching my baby. For some reason people think it is perfectly ok to touch my bundle of joy (either hold its hand or squeeze its cheek) when baby is in it's pram or when I was wearing him. I don't know where their hands have been, eewww!

[FastHands]

SO WEIRD. My line is hug-relationships. If we would hug and that wouldn't be odd (and I'm not the hug-a-stranger type), I'm okay with you touching my belly.

DH and I went to dinner at the hous of a friend of his and his wife. It was the first time I had met them. I was only ooooohhhh 6 weeks?, but we told them because they had bought this special international booze (DH met them while traveling to the wife's former home country for work) just for DH and for me to try, and they REALLY wanted me to have some, lol. Before we left she rubbed my belly.  ^o)  Yeah, that's wine you're fondling.

[melsamoony]

Even my MOM asked me if she could touch my belly and the only reason she was touching it was because I was saying it was really hard. She is also a nurse and has worked OB...so there is also that.

[catsarecute]

Feb 21, 2014 14:39:55 GMT -5 FastHands said:

SO WEIRD. My line is hug-relationships. If we would hug and that wouldn't be odd (and I'm not the hug-a-stranger type), I'm okay with you touching my belly.
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This is my line too. I've had people (friends, close work colleagues) ask if they can touch my belly and I don't mind at all. I see it as giving the baby love. Strange to want to touch my stomach but whatever, I don't mind it.
I have yet to have a real stranger reach out. This random lady my dad dated for a minute reached out and I moved back a little. I felt weird about that.

[centralsquare]

Feb 21, 2014 14:23:03 GMT -5 @rumpshaker said:

My MIL did this the other day and it made me extremely uncomfortable.  Next time, I am going to reach out and touch her belly too.

This is on my list of 187 reasons why I am not ready to tell my MIL.

She already touches me too much. And weirdly. Like, will hug you and rock you from side to side like you are a 3-year-old. And I've had years of back pain/back surgery, which she's well aware of, and for a while, this move hurt like hell. Which I told her.

She still does it and I HATE IT. It doesn't hurt me now, except my soul.

[andthentherewere10]

A substitute teacher asked me today if I minded, I said yes.

That probably had to do with the fact that two kids touched my belly purposefully while I was walking by/standing near them during instruction. I wanted to slap them.