Member of staff stroked my child's face

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Aibu to be annoyed that a member of staff in John Lewis touched my babies face today?!

With coronovirus at large, this does annoy me but it's not ok to just touch random babies. Why do people do this?!

If you were worried about CV what were you doing in John Lewis?

Lol precious first born syndrome

I would sneer, but I remember when my baby was wee, there was an epidemic of either swine flu or bird flu and I remember a lady peering in the pram stroking him and I was really annoyed.

Bassinet?

@NoSauce the lie flat part of the pushchair.

had a toddler randomly grab/ touch me with their germ infested little claws
quite accurate description of toddler hands though. (i have 2 kids - they are not allowed to touch random strangers, and i would apologise if they dud)

Yabu. Get a grip!

I can’t believe people are so rude as to touch people’s babies. Modern day nonsense some of you may find it but one should still move with the times and accept not everyone wants your coldsores or to be touched generally.

OFFFS 🙄 it’s a normal human reaction - I’ll be far more worried when humans become so insular that we no longer have the instinct to feel delight at babies
Also y’all those who are saying it’s not ok to touch but then saying how mean the poster is regarding the grubby toddler - hypocrites

bassinet - the pram part that looks like a moses basket.

I won't sneer, a few weeks ago a staff member at the supermarket stroked newborn DS2 and then got out a tissue and blew his nose. I waited till he was out of sight then babywiped the babys hands and face while thinking 'whyyyy would you stroke random babys when you have a cold?'

Maybe you could get her fired.

We can delight at babies without bloody touching random strangers’ babies! It’s rude and totally disrespectful. Babies and pregnancy bumps are not public property!

And it’s nothing to do with PFB syndrome 🙄 I hated it when I had my first child some years ago and I still hated it with my second and third.

Please could all those posters thinking it’s fine, post pics of themselves so that I can randomly stroke their hair or face when I pass them in the street or in shops? Yeah....no. Stop it! Being young and/or being pregnant doesn’t make you an object to be touched by strangers.

Agree with this 'don't touch my child' nonsense. This ownership of children of this generation is totally ridiculous. Most children love to get attention and affection from not just their parents, but strangers too.

Talk about bringing insular, self-centred and anxious children with this attitude.

Get a grip OP, FFS

It's automatic behaviour. Fine to tell them to stop but there's no need to get yourself in a tizzy - I bet she didn't even think

People generally loves babies. If you don't want them to, you can keep them away out of their reach, or keep protective cover like rain cover while out.That's what I would do. And I think talking over them is more likely to spread than actual touching, I think.

In John Lewis?

Well at least the staff member had middle class germs, it's not like you were in ASDA.

OP I agree with you.

I don't like people touching me never mind my children!
You wouldn't stroke someone's dog in the street without asking so why someone's child!
It's about respecting other people's personal space and I think everyone deserves that regardless of their age.
I also don't insist my kids kiss family members if they don't want to because that's not on in my eyes either!

YANBU.

@Mummyoflittledragon surely even you can see the contradiction in what you posted. If you don’t want people touching your children, then it’s only reasonable to keep an eye on your children and make sure they don’t touch other people.

2 elderly neighbor ladies stroked DS today on our way home from the supermarket and I haven’t even thought of corona virus. And I live in a very high risk area in Asia.

I wouldn’t worry so much about it OP, appearently it doesn’t affect young people under 20 so easily.
I do agree with you that touching stranger’s babies isn’t something that people should do but they have no malicious intentions.

*In John Lewis?

Well at least the staff member had middle class germs, it's not like you were in ASDA.*

@TeaandDarkToast

Why not just write pram?

Anyway yabu OP.

You are being ridiculous

With coronovirus at large, this does annoy me but it's not ok to just touch random babies. Why do people do this

Humans are a tactile species. It's in our DNA.