“Please, Don’t Touch My Baby”: For those who were unaware that they shouldn’t touch children they don’t know…

This is a rant, but it needs to be said.

Picture it: you are at brunch with family or out and about with your child. You’re enjoying the company when a person, a relative stranger, reaches over to touch your baby. You freeze up, everything seemingly goes into slow motion. You look at the person, bristling. You even pull your baby away from the person. They persist. You glare at them, still putting your body between them and your little one. The mood changes and you feel like it’s your fault. You may feel guilt: for not doing more, or for doing too much.

This happened to me. Twice. With two different people. And I am pissed.

I don’t understand why people who don’t know me or my baby do not know not to just go around touching babies they don’t know.

Do you just walk up to strangers you don’t know and touch them?

How would you feel if someone you didn’t know came up to you and felt entitled to touch you?

Not just that, but why are you touching my baby’s hands? The same hands that she will rub her eye with or stick into her mouth. Why do you think it’s a good idea to place your adult hand, that has touched doorknobs and handles, elevator…