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"There is a fine line between a princess and a witch...thinking you're one does NOT give you the right to act like the other." my grandmother
What do you think of those signs....
.....that say "don't touch my hands without washing yours" or whatever that you sometimes see on strollers or carriers? In looking online for a cute saying to put on the hand sanitizer at my house, I ran across quite a bit of controversy about them that surprised me. Anyone here offended by them?
"There is a fine line between a princess and a witch...thinking you're one does NOT give you the right to act like the other." my grandmother
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Re: What do you think of those signs....
Nope. But then again, I don't go around touching other people's babies without them giving the ok. I would hope that would be the case for EVERYONE, but having had babies...that is most certainly NOT the case.
We usually just put light blankets over their car seats when we were out and about and didn't want people touching them. We were at Spence's nephrologist's office when he was 3 months old and a couple came up, put their hands into his car seat (under the blanket) and then asked if they could hold him! I was like, "uhh, get the eff away from my baby!"
No kidding. The more I work with the general public, the more I realize that a lot of people are lacking common sense.
"There is a fine line between a princess and a witch...thinking you're one does NOT give you the right to act like the other." my grandmother
I don't touch other people's babies and I don't like mine being touched. I have no problem with those signs. Some people have no clue. I wish I could put one on my belly.
ETA: I, personally, wouldn't use the sign, but I'm not bothered if others do.
I think they're a little obnoxious. I don't touch babies without permission, either, but I just wouldn't feel comfortable putting that on my kiddo's stroller or carrier. Unless I saw somebody hacking coughing on their hands before touching my kid or unless my kid had a compromised immune system, I'm OK with strangers taking a peek at my baby.
That being said, I think it's perfectly acceptable to have hand sanitizer out at your house and ask folks to use it before holding the baby. That's what we did and no one had a problem with it.
I wouldn't be offended, but I would roll my eyes. And probably post on the board about it in a lol-way. Sorry.
When we were out and about with a baby, we covered him/her with a blanket. If anyone got too close, I'd just politely move away. I never had an unwanted baby touching incident. I did have some old lady sneak up and rub Vivi's hands while I was using the ATM at the store TODAY, which was kind of bizarre ..... but she's almost 2 and old enough to give the lady the side-eye all by herself.
(read it. you know you want to.)
anderson . september 2008
vivian . february 2010
mabel . august 2012
Nothing to be sorry about - I'm not considering it (at least not unless strangers touching the baby turns out to be a huge problem), but even if I were I wouldn't be upset. I was just surprised that so many people took offense at them.
"There is a fine line between a princess and a witch...thinking you're one does NOT give you the right to act like the other." my grandmother
We had a sign on our carrier, and kept sanitizer in the diaper bag for times we were visiting friends or family. We also kept a giant sanitizer near the bassinet, one near the changing area and one in our living room. We also wouldn't allow anyone to hold/touch her without sanitizing up to their elbows.
While I feel like it was overkill, DD was a preemie, and was not allowed out in public for the first 12 weeks of her life, so when people came over with their outside world germs we wanted to protect her as much as possible.
Side note - we also made smokers change their shirts upon entering our home and kept t-shirts in the laundry room for them to use.
This. I totally get it with preemies or other immunocompromised people, but other than that it gets a big eye roll from me. I also refuse to use antibacterial cleaning stuff in my house though. A few germs are good for developing your immune system (in my opinion.)