to not want strangers to keep touching DS without permission?

[Fruitflieslikeabanana]

OK this may turn into a rant

Why is it some people feel the need to touch / stroke / pinch the cheeks of my 10 month old DS? I've just taken him to the GP (D and V for several days but thankfully resolving today) and as I know he is probably contagious I sat as far away as possible from others and kept him sat on my knee. He's doing a lot of babbling at the moment so sat there making bits of noise and blowing a few raspberries which lead not one but two people to come over and put their hands on his face and coo at him.

I'm not particularly confrontational so I don't like just telling people to just go away or snatch DS away. AIBU to expect people not to do this to a child they do not know? It used to happen a lot when he was a small baby but I thought it would stop now he's bigger.

I need a titchy to small size im under 5 ft those feet in onsies are a bugger folkgirl

i can see your point op but its never bothered me tbh and the more kids i have the happier i have been to just hand them over to any random stranger so i can stop a toddler running off or pack my bags in a supermarket.

once in a clothes shop when i had a baby in a sling ds4? i asked an assistant (the one that stands by the changing rooms and counts how many items you take in) if she would mind holding the baby whilst i tried on a top, she did so happily and was merrily cooing away over ds4. i was a metre away, behind a curtain and could see/hear her through the gap and kept popping my head round to see him, was only a few mins anway adn then another shopper told me off for letting her hold my baby and went on about how she may have abducted him?! i mean seriously get a grip i was right there and had she even started to walk/run away with him i would have run out of the cupbicle in my underwear if necessary to stop her, its not like she would have got very far!

my kids have all been happy, smiley and loved the interaction, dd especially gets cuddles from lots of mums in the school playground if i have to take ds4 to the toilet etc and she loves it! infact the last time i went to london on the train an old couple sat near me were cooing over her and stroked her hair etc and they held her whilst i hada drink and went to the toilet on the train, i had ds1 with me as well but he was engrossed in his book so it was easier to let them hold her and they thoroughly enjoyed it and gave her a £1. that is still a fairly common thing to do i have found, especially with a newborn in a pram.

anyone else wondering if they accidentally washed money tucked into their baby's clothes by kind passersby?

So I could become a pick pocket and stuff the cash in mindees nappy and say a total stranger put it there!!! Fantastic side line to childminding!!

well not sure if a nappy is the best place but as a nanny you will know. They say money doesn't stink

OP I completely feel the same as you and it's a constant annoyance. I have no problem with people I know giving DDs cheeks a good tickle, but I just don't feel comfortable with strangers doing it tbh as I don't know where their hands have been and I'm a bit of a germ phobe. If anyone wishes to throw a bit of money in the buggy though I wouldn't be adverse

YANBU. This happened to me in Morrisons last week, some old dear touched 6 mth old DS hand before I could move him away in his pram. Whilst it is nice to know she thinks he's lovely, she then proceeded to walk around the store coughing (hacking germy cough) into her hands. I wiped his hands with the baby wipes. If a child talks/smiles at me, I will happily talk/smile back, but never ever touch them.

Look but don't touch?