To be fed up with being touched?

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And climbed on, sat on, tweaked, jumped on and generally interfered with?

I have three year old twins and a four year old. One of the twins has a rotten cold and has recently worked out how to blow his nose, but doesn't always get a tissue, and so fires out snot like ectoplasm. He goes a bit hyper when he's not well and he has not stopped jumping and fidgeting since 5am.

Both he and his brothers seem to need to be in physical contact with me ALL the fucking time. I'm feeling fluey and achey and much as I love them, I just want them to get off me!

DH is in bed with a life-threatening hangover, and all he can grunt is "they just want to cuddle you." Well I wish they'd bloody stop!

Tell them Daddy needs cuddles, go snuggle in next to him

Yes I understand, I sometimes have a child cuddling me from either side shouting my mummy. I have also lost count of how many times I say I am not a climbing frame!

It's so annoying isn't it? The 4 year old is still asleep with Daddy but he's just as bad, and bigger! I wonder if it's a developmental phase or something?

YANBU. I came across a great term for this feeling not too long ago - "touched out". I've been there and it's not nice, especially as I also feel guilty for wanting DD to just leave me alone at the same time.

Can you make your DH get up with them, maybe stick a DVD or something on in the bedroom and get them all snuggled up in bed, then lock yourself in the bathroom with a cup of tea and a nice hot bubble bath or something? I find just a bit of ttimealone and not being touched helps me cope a lot better.

Hope you feel better soon!

We take it in turns to have a lie in and mine is tomorrow.
Have stuck cbeebies on and keep quietly sneaking away from them. They're watching nicely now but both keep creeping up and draping over me and fidgeting!

Yes! Touched out!

I so understand! By the end of mist days I want my body back. I want space and the luxury of being able to just sit down and not be hemmed in is amazing.

I thought it was just me! :)

All my friends seem rather envious of my cuddly dc. Cuddles are lovely but I do not want to be touched all the time!
Some nights I get into be and then dh tries to cuddle me and I quietly seethe with resentment that no one will leave me alone!
I try to remind myself that no cuddles would be just as bad!

This drives me crazy too! Every time I sit down there's about 3 seconds before a child is sitting on me, pawing at me, wiping snot on me etc

The only way to escape is to take them out and keep them moving OP. Lots of long walks.

My eldest is 15, he looks away in disdain & allows his arms to hang limp if I dare try to put my arm round him. He does occasionally grunt at me when he wants feeding. I'd love one of his snotty 3 year-old kisses!

OMG....!

I only have singletons, but they're also 3 and 4. And yes! They're just on me all the time...! And then the minute I attempt to slink upright and sidle out if the room, they're there, whooping and hollering and shadowing me, Pied Piper like.

The clinging...! I adore them, but I just want them not on me all the time.

I draw the line when they start fighting with each other on me. Guaranteed to have me roaring. Just no...!

My nearly 6ft DD has been ill for a long time ( thankfully now recovering) try one of those doing a limpet impression !!!

Oh mine do this too, especially the two year old.

Very often I will be sat on the sofa with two wriggling children draped over me, while DH sits in splendid isolation on the other sofa.

I long to be able to sit down without immediately being used as a chair/hot water bottle/climbing frame etc.

I do adore my boys and we have lots of lovely cuddles, but the need they have to be touching me 90% of the time drives me mad.