To kiss my own baby in public?

[Mysterycat23]

New mum here. I have a habit of kissing LO on his head or cheeks every time I pick him up. I also kiss his head quite frequently while holding him. I do this at home and when out and about. In all honesty I'm addicted However at nct meet ups I've noticed I'm the only one kissing my LO.

No one has said anything to me but would like to know if it would make anyone uncomfortable or if I'm breaking some unwritten rule?

I do it constantly - if anyone said anything I would think they were odd. She loves kisses!

I kiss mine all the time. I also blow raspberry's on his cheeks and say "who did that?" Which makes him laugh. I've had funny looks with that but not with kissing.

I haven't stopped with my nearly 7 year old. It's lovely.

"I'm too gentle with him?"

I understand this, depending on exactly how gentle you're talking about. Don't be precious with them.

I still kiss my five year old on the head in public. I'd do it on the older one too if it wasn't for the fact she'd run away screaming

I kiss DS (5 months old) the time. He thinks it's hilarious at the moment. I'm enjoying it whilst it lasts!

You'll still be doing it when your little one is not so little and trying to push you away in total embarrassment (but secretly loving it). Kiss away!

and congratulations!

^ that should be "all the time"

DS is 11, still in Primary..he just allows me to kiss him when he comes out of school..

My mum told me off for kissing my baby, I'd 'make her soft', whatever that means. I ignored her and carried on.
You can't help but kiss them, their squidgy adorable cuteness is hard to resist.
She also told me off for paying them too much attention.
I ignored on that one too.
Mum was lovely but was quite repressed, almost Victorian in attitude.

I had my first baby in the early 90s
Consequently the poor mite was always covered in bright red lip prints

My 27 year old son came home last night, wrapped me up in a hug and gave me a kiss on the top of my head - he's quite a bit taller than me these days. I think that is the lovely payback for years of kissing and hugging him (and his sister) - don't stop. And I'm training my 7 year old grandson the same way!

My 27 year old son came home last night, wrapped me up in a hug and gave me a kiss on the top of my head - he's quite a bit taller than me these days. I think that is the lovely payback for years of kissing and hugging him (and his sister) - don't stop. And I'm training my 7 year old grandson the same way!

I still do it with my dcs, they are teenagers.
I've been told to stop doing that in public though

Oh for goodness sake keep doing it. Pretty soon you get to the "Don't kiss me, Mummy! Don't kiss me" Although when I stop, DD2 (3yo) giggles and then shouts "again, again, again!"

(Clearly if she didn't say again, again, again, I wouldn't!)

We're big on kissing & cuddling in our house.

The other day I was queuing to get into a museum withDD2, aged 3. Really busy, loads of people both in the queue and walking past. DD2 asked me to carry her. I picked her up, she grabbed my face in both hands and planted a huge kiss on my lips. Then she smoothed her nose into mine. So I kissed her back, on her cheek and her ear and her neck as she giggled and squirmed because it was tickling her. If anyone judged, who cares? She'll only be that small for such a little time longer, and I love her and want her to know it.

I'm the only one at baby group who kisses and cuddles their baby

MrsDV - mine was an early 90s vintage and there was a lingering Anais Anais whiff to her as well as the lipstick.

I was a total baby kisser, and also noticed that my NCT group were a lot less kissy! Now she's 3, I still kiss her as much as I can, but I have to catch her first...

I kissed mine all the time once they were past the initial newborn stage, I was a bit scared to kiss them when they were so tiny. I have a much much better memory for touch than for visuals, so I find it hard to visualise them when they were babies but I remember very clearly the feel of touching my lips to their fuzzy little hard heads. I also wondered whether I was doing it too much, but decided that wasn't possible! I still kiss and cuddle them now at 7 and 9.

Oh OP kiss away! 6 month old DS is constantly covered in lipstick and I'm covered in his slobber, so it's a fair exchange .

I was in John Lewis yesterday -waiting 1000000 years for someone to help me buy a fridge getting stink eye from a very sour looking woman because I was swooshing baby in the air and kissing him... and horror of horrors... he was laughing! Laughing loudly!

I thought she was going to call SS when, between swooooshy kisses, I (jokingly) asked DS if he'd like to live in the salad drawer.

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Chances are you may never stop- I still kiss my DC all the time and they are 8 and 5!

It drives me mad when people do it while I'm talking to them. I can't stand lip noises and it makes me want to run away screaming or get violent. Otherwise perfectly normal everyone kisses their babies.

I don't think its weird not to - I'm very cuddly with my kids but not kissy (and all mine still let me cuddle them, in fact the secondary age girl is very cuddly, 9 year old boy only sometimes, 6 year old boy insanely cuddly and also far more kissy than anyone else in the family - in fact has to be reminded almost daily not to kiss people who don't want to be kissed at that moment (his siblings).

I wore babies in slings and liked to keep them close and cuddled and snug, and had no issue breast feeding in public either, but didn't ostentatiously kiss or sniff them in public and would have felt weird doing so, even though I never really notice whether other people do or not to their own. I actively hated other people kissing my babies though - its not something you are "allowed" to say is it? It made me squirm inwardly while forcing an outward smile when anyone with strong perfume kissed one of my babies on the head, and made them stink of the other adult til I could get them home and bath them!

You are not weird to kiss your own baby, but other people are not weird either if they are cuddly with their babies but not kissing and sniffing them!

mine was an early 90s vintage and there was a lingering Anais Anais whiff to her as well as the lipstick.

Heh.

I actually stopped wearing perfume in large part because my son didn't like it. I did a KIT day when he was 4 months and I clearly smelled wrong to him when I came home, so no more perfume. I think lipstick will now have to be wiped off before I get back from work too - nothing should get in the way of kisses!