Have you ever had a stranger tries to kiss your baby, how did you respond?

Question

My husband is a musician, he was playing on the deck of a local restaurant tonight. I take my 10 week old daughter to the restaurant gigs, they're not too loud, no smoke etc. I keep her in a wrap and she's snuggled against my chest, usually this keeps people away from her because they have to be in MY space as well to touch her. When I first got to the gig, I was talking to a man about the band, he asked me a few questions about the group and then about our baby. Well, later on he came back over to me, I thought he was leaning down to tell me something and he kissed my sleeping daughter on the temple. This really made my stomach turn, he had been drinking of course, not to mention germs. I guess I've got to put up a bigger wall.

Answer 1

When my baby was only a few weeks old me and my dad went to the store to pick up diapers and regular stuff and some weird looking guy reached from behind me and started rubbing my baby's head - i was so shocked at first i didn't know what to do. Then she was about 3 months and some lady kissed her hand when i was holding her ( i don't even know where the lady came from she was just standing there all of a sudden) and i said excuse me i don't mean to be rude but please don't do that. People get mad when you tell them not to touch your baby i don't know why strangers think they have every right to just come up to your kid like that. I really burns me when people do that so i just try to be as polite as possible and say Please don't. You don't know where they've been (especially with that guy drinking) Good luck because it never stops

Answer 2

Well, I have four kids and one is a four month old boy. I have to say little babies are irresistable. It is polite to ask if you can touch someone else's baby. I think it is hard for us to accept that other people think so too and want to touch the sweet little bundle of snuggliness. Babies smell good, are so smooth skinned and so precious! OK, I digress. But see how irresistable your baby is! I would be proactive and just say first thing, look at my cutie, please don't touch her, I am just a little crazy about this little girl and I don't want to see her get sick from our big people germs. Or however you would phrase it. I was like a lion about that with my first two, but then I had my third. I didn't want her having germs, but I knew living in a bubble wasn't going to happen if we were going to go out in public. That said, keeping beer reeking dudes off the baby is a good idea. It would be a good idea to keep hand sanitizer around and some wipes. I was very assertive about asking people to please wash their hands before handling the baby.

Answer 3

I feel like that is a huge invasion of space. And hello, that is your baby, who are they to be touching and kissing him/her. I have been in similar situations though, little old ladies and stuff always come up and pinch my sons cheeks and things, and weird people in walmart and things.. I am not okay with it, and just kind of back away from them. If they don't get the hint I will say something, because I don't want strangers touching my precious little baby.

Answer 4

actually today I was wearing Cade and a lady came by and rubbed his head while he was sleeping. I got frustrated but my husband calmed me down. I did not care for that.



Eta: I dont know why people feel the need to touch things that are not theirs. When I was pregnant I could not stand stangers touching my belly. It drives me nuts

Answer 5

I don't allow people to kiss my babies till after 6 months, only myself, Husband, and the other kids can. They can pass way to many germs, and sicknesses around. I want to give their immune system a head start.

As for complete strangers, I'd probably hit them. That is freaky. I'd hate to see what my Husband would have done if he did that to me.

Answer 6

I probably would have flipped out. A few months ago a waitress reached in and stroked my son's cheek and I couldn't believe she would do that. Who touches a stranger's baby?!?

Answer 7

No, and I can tell you for sure how I would... I would have decked him, drunk or not. I don't even want strangers touching my baby, let alone kissing him!

Answer 8

WHAT THE ****! I would have decked him. No, it's not ok to kiss a baby that's not yours.

Answer 9

Yah you do, i would've shrieked had that happened to me, but first of all i would've never taken my 10week old newbie out in a place like that at all, but to each it's own, but pertaining to the ques, i would let that be a lesson learned and never ever go back to that kind of place with my newborn baby again.