and why is it you HAVE to see (or touch) my baby?

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  • Jemia
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 9:02 AM

• I absolutely don't allow people to do that to me.

  

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  • imknattie
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 9:08 AM

• I've had that happen to me too!  I actually had one lady want to hold my baby while I was eating lunch with my parents at a restaurant! 

   

  I am enjoying spending time with my kids, not having to drive anywhere, why not join me? http://www.myfamilyshealthmatters.com

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  • marriedmomma3
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 9:13 AM

• I love to see babies, but they are not that amazing to me (unless they are mine of course) to actually go out of my way.  I don't mind showing people my baby at all, I will take off the blanket, or down the balanket depending on where we are.  My babies are beautiful and I know that and I consider it a compliment when they want to see them.  However if they are obviously sick I will not allow them to see them.  And if I see a baby, if I touch the baby, I always (with the back of my fingers) touch a hatted head or a socked foot.  Never any skin. 

  
  
  
  
  

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  • girlenvy
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 9:13 AM

• I think with some woman its just motherly instinct to want to see a baby I am not saying I want to see every baby I notice but if I mom is holding her baby out in public I cant help but to look and see how cute she or he is..Everyone is diff I have no problem with ppl wanting to see my baby and if I am in a hurry I have no problem saying so either... However I also make it know that unless you wash or sanitise your hands you are not aloud to touch the baby *that eliminates the touchers lol* .... If it bothers you just be more vocal about it... No one is going to know you are in a hurry or not in the mood unless you tell them..
  

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  • armywife43
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 9:39 AM

•  because they're so darn cute! lol. i never really touch the babies when i see them. if there's a blanket on them i maybe glance at the carseat but i don't bug the mom. normally that means they're asleep and in no way am i the one that's going to be responsible for waking him/her up! anyway, if i see a baby, it's normally while i'm passing by, i say "awww he/she is sooo cute! i miss my baby being that little..." smile and then head on my merry way. don't really have time to ooh and aww...my 2 kids are with me and my 2 yr old is normally getting into something :P

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  • magee19
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM

• I love babies and if me or any one in my family see's one we almost always ask about him or her. when my son was littler everyone asked about him and to see or hold him. i can see if the babies .y sick or the person who wants to touch her is sick and you dont want them to touch them just 

  say so. i was always proud to show off my beautiful blonde hair, sky dusk blue eyed son, everyone was in awed with him. it your call as a parent who sees your child but you are right people do need to ask first.

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  • nily
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 11:14 AM

• I really don't see any problem with people saying cute comments about my baby and looking at him, for the contrary it makes me very proud that I'm a mommy of a cute baby. When I go out with Joseph there is  ALWAYS someone that say '' Oh what a handsome little man'' or comments like that. People goes AWWWW with him all the time and I enjoy it and so is my son. BUT one thing I don't allow is stranger touching my son. I don't like it because I don't know if they are sick or have other intentions. I just say a firm ''Please dont'' I dont care if they like it or not.

  

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  • Lolam84
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 11:47 AM

• Yeah that really bugs me too! with all this flu and cold going around!? My husbands family is so demanding that all they think about is seeing the kids. My mother in-law is always kissing my son and I know will try and do the same to my daughter when she comes! Its so the point were they are so over baring that im not telling anyone when I have the baby! They actually say we cant wait till OUR baby comes last time I checked im the one giving birth!!!

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  • reux
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 7:28 PM

• I don't mind so much when people want to see my baby.  It bothers me when random strangers want to touch my baby (and they ALWAYS go for baby's hands--Don't they know babies spend most of their time with their hands in their mouths!!!!). 
  

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  • XOXOnBubbles
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 10:43 PM

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  Quoting reux:
  
  

  I don't mind so much when people want to see my baby.  It bothers me when random strangers want to touch my baby (and they ALWAYS go for baby's hands--Don't they know babies spend most of their time with their hands in their mouths!!!!). 
  

  Ditto!  Look, but please don't touch! 

  Also, always ask before lifting up a blanket to look, because the baby is probably sleeping.
  

  Proud wife, and mama of 2 boys.

   
   

  
  

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