Am I being unreasonable to want people to keep their hands to themselves?

[MrsHelenBee]

Just need to vent a bit after being stopped by 2 more UTP's (unidentified tummy patters) today.
Is it just me being over-sensitive when I say they shouldn't do it? I hate it, it makes me feel so uncomfortable and, in a way, slightly violated.
I appreciate people only mean well, but a checkout assistant and passer by in the street are total strangers and it feels so wrong!
I'd never dream of doing it to anyone, whether I'd been pregnant myself or not, so I find it really hard to understand why people think my bump is public property.
It keeps happening, and I get so angry with myself afterwards that I never say anything. I wouldn't be rude - I'm not the aggressive, confrontational type - but I desperatley want to say how awful it is. Maybe there are other mums2B out there who love it, but surely when it's a total stranger, it would be better that they ask first if it's ok, rather than assume, or even say afterwards "You don't mind me doing that, do you?" Actually, I do mind. A LOT!!!

ohthegoat I don't think anyones suggested or stated that someone bigger than a size 10 is fine with the change of body. It was merely mentioned that if you are usually slim then yes it is a huge change and I'd say it is more of a change than if you are a size 20 who already has a huge belly....sorry if that offends but you put the words in mouth so I will have to agree!

That doesn't mean its any more comfortable for a larger lady, just that if you have a flat wash board stomach previously then it goes big and round, its more of a change than if your stomach was already big and round, and then...ahem...stays like that :S ?

Agree with what RaRa said, and why are things taken so literally and then twisted to mean something else on here? It wasn't a dig at anyone who isn't slim, just stating the obvious?

If strangers start trying to rub my stomach I'll slap their hand out of the way.... Family and friends is acceptable but total strangers?? Ermm nooo!!!

ohthegoat as others have said, it's surely just stating the obvious? For example, I'm 33 weeks and I have a friend who is also 33 weeks. Pre-pregnancy I was a size 10 and 5'9 whereas she was a size 22 and 5'4, you still genuinely cannot tell that she is pregnant, she doesn't look much different at all, and she says the same herself. On the other hand I look like a whale heavily pregnant, and people have been noticing I'm pregnant since I was about 12 weeks.
I'm not being mean, I'm not criticising and I'm certainly not saying that she doesn't feel pregnant, or have to adjust to the changes, but isn't it just fact that the slimmer you were before, the more obvious the difference will be, and so the more dramatic the change to adjust to.