Am I being unreasonable: I get annoyed when people think they can put their grubby hands in my pram and touch my DS!

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Does this happy to anyone else? You are out/on the bus/walking in the park. Someone comes to chat or starts talking to DS, he smiles being the lovely sociable baby...and they stick their hands in/stroke his hand/touch his face/put his dummy in!!!

Has anyone said anything? It usually happens so fast, I'm not quick enough.....

anyone?

I've never been told too bog off ...I work in a cafe and always talk and coo and touch babies ..I've even been asked to hold them when their mums pop to the loo ...its a sad world when you cant stoke a lovely chubby cheek

Oooh the new baby is a "her" according to my previous post....

A sign maybe!

LOL ...I would LOVE to see that cartoon!!!

Of course babies don't have a sense of personal space.

But their mothers do from before they had babies and it's that automatic defensiveness kicking in when they feel someone is getting too close or is not clean enough near their baby.

I'd call it instinctive behaviour more than anything.

Some feel it and others don't though.

Yes, that's what it feels like. Instinctive behaviour. Cave woman in me doing her thing.

Found it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc2JatiDKQM&feature=related

It's about four minutes in. A cautionary tale, perhaps - the pram eventually turns on the person pushing it!

hilarious!!!

Piscesmum You could have been referring to my post in March last year. I did ban my parents for 3wks post birth because they are bloody useless and I didn't need 2 more children as well as the newborn

It certainly wasn't a PFB thing, more a don't come if you won't help and want waiting on thing