Don't touch my bump!!!

[Dede124]

Does anyone else hate it when people touch your bump??

I really don't like it even close family and friends it makes me cringe and feel uncomfortable the only one person I like touching my bump is OH anyone else I really can't stand it 😱 but how can you say??

Anyone else? Or am I weird?

I hate it, only my mil and sils tried it, I basically fought them off. Possibly don't say what I did as it caused a mini war, "if you didn't put it in there or will be helping to get it out don't touch". Apparently I'm weird for not wanting to be touched...I didn't like being touched randomly during conversation when not pregnant so I don't see how it's weird to be the same when pregnant but whatever!

Hands on bump. Slap incoming hands.

Yeah, I just put my hand on their belly. They soon learn!

Altho I confess I loved it (with people I liked) and love to bump touch. Its just so amazing and you and your body are frikking awesome

I don't think anyone would dare touch mine, if they did uninvited I'd have no problems giving their nipple a good tweak. I like my personal space.

(Also DS, age 2, has now taken to asking to see my nipples as well as 'baby tummy', but he's allowed as he's mine and he's cute!)

Big smile, point out that they're giving you carte blanche to grab any part of them you choose and squeeze as hard as you like for as long as you can.

This annoyed me. Random stranger touched my bump in a shop once. I was horrified.

Never mind bump @Dede124

I'm getting friends and family grabbing my boobs to comment on the size - there are literally no words!!!!!!!!!

When I was pregnant and working as a junior doctor I would have the odd patient with no boundaries. I had a lovely old gent with heart failure and lots of fluid retained round his belly, so I went in one morning on my ward round and said, "Morning Hugh, how is this belly of yours doing today?", as I did my usual palpating of it. He bellowed, "Ah, just grand thanks: how's yours!?" and grabbed my bump!
It was quite funny really, and I didn't mind, as he was lovely and slightly dottled. One of the night nurses gave my bump a proper grope without asking, which I was taken aback by and didn't quite know how to respond to. Since then, I must be giving off 'don't mess with me' vibes, as I have avoided unsolicited grabbing since.

I used to slap hands awsy. Not on purpose but it was an involuntary response.

to boob grabbing though! (DH can't keep his hands off them when I'm pregnant, mind you)

I'm another one who touches their belly back! 😂

I think it's annoying too! Other than OH of course! They can touch baby when it's born, I hate being touched by other people!

I had a complete stranger gypsy lady full on bless my bump with lucky Heather on a tram in sheffield.....it freaked me out and left a mess on my dress. She was whacking my tummy with the branch/twig thing. I dont like anyone invading my personal space at the best of times.

I can't imagine doing this to anybody - it seems like such an invasion of space!

I have asked my closest friend - so, family - if I can feel her unborn baby kick (when it's 'feelable' from outside), as I've never felt a baby kicking, but I wouldn't dream of just touching anybody, pregnant or not!!

Ahhh. Me and my husband were looking at baby clothes the other day. Having a home with each other but obviously a conversation that didn't warrant another person joining in and a lady that worked there joined in and started rubbing me(my belly that is.) Omg! I just froze and me and my husband gave each other "the look." The look that from us both saod WTF. A lady at work did it at the coffee machine and I just jumped away. She looked so embarrassed, and rightly so. No one did this to me when I was pregnant with DS1 and I wouldn't dream touching someone else's bump! Boundaries anyone?

Have a joke**

Having a joke!* grr.

So glad I'm not the only one and it's more normal than I thought. I even told my mum I don't like it and I think she was a bit offended but it just freaks me out . Iv never liked my personal space being invaded but this is just something else... !

One woman at work does it insistently to me. Apparently all pregnant women like it. not all this one doesn't

She is super conscious about her weight.
She rubs my belly I jiggle hers. She still hasn't got the message.

I've told her I'm not a lucky Buddha.

No one has touched mine other than my sister who asked first.
Only 2 strangers/customers at work have made any comment.
I had a window man come out and fix my windows last week, he asked for my help passing a ladder over the fence, I don't think he even noticed!
I'm clearly pregnant. 34 weeks in fact.
I've got the opposite problem, I want people to notice/touch it/be excited!

My sister and mother touch it, it melts me to see my baby sister caress my bump! At first I was a bit weirded out by being touched but now it's fine, and they're both perfectly respectful if I say not right now.

I did have one other person, not a stranger but not a friend, go right for it and that made me uncomfortable, more than I even thought it would.

Luckily everyone else keeps their distance.

I just find it odd. Im ok with dh doing it.

The lady at work does it and can't see that I don't like it. Despite me telling her. I upset her apparently when I told her not to. Our hr person came to let me know that she's complained I'd upset her by telling her no and he rolled his eyes. He's told her not to.

She insists that it's "what she does" and I "love it". So now I just do it back. She doesn't like it but just won't get the message.

She's also taken it upon herself to police my food. So that's fun....

I hate it. The only exceptions are DH and my immediate family, but my MiL not only went through a phase of touching my bump in the first trimester (so not even much of a bump!) but would actually lift up my jumpers/outer layers of clothes to get to my naked belly- both in private and literally out and and about in public. She's a bit sensitive and I didn't want to cause conflict so I found it really hard when she did this. I spoke to SiL who I believe had a word as she's stopped doing it but both of DH's aunts also touch- one even commented "I used to hate it when others touched my bump but then you've got to touch a bump haven't you?" 😡 Receptionist who I've met twice did it to me at work the other day too... I just want to scream at what point did my body stop being my body?!? I don't think DH understood my objection so much in the beginning so I started rubbing his belly and he soon understood!