3rd Trimester

Belly Touching?

I keep getting articles in my email about how offended people are when strangers, friends, family, etc want to touch their pregnant belly.  I guess I'm strange in thinking that its only offensive if you're not pregnant.  I feel my bump is a badge of honor.  you want to touch it, go ahead. am i the only one who's proud of my belly?  also-  am i the only one who doesn't have strangers walking up to me begging to touch my belly?   I've walked around malls, zoos, stores, parks, etc and not once have i ever been stopped.  [Poll]
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  • The only weird part for me is that I'm not really a super "touchy-feely" kind of person to begin with. I honestly don't mind my family and close friends touching my belly, and they don't even do it that often anyhow. I would feel awkward if a stranger or someone I barely knew did it, but that hasn't happened to me.

     

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  • It doesn't bother me at all when people touch my belly, in fact I encourage people to touch it.  But things like that don't bother me, I'm also very proud of my bump! LOL
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  • I started my pregnancy overweight so it has taken a while for my bump to emerge. I like that people can now tell I have a bump and like when they touch it because it reminds me that I no longer just look fat.
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  • Yeah I don't care if someone touches my belly, I get that they're not trying to feel me up.

    Funny story: One of my good guy friends who touches my belly each time I see him asked me the other day if I can still feel it when he touches my belly....haha ummm yes, the nerve endings are still all there and working buddy!  People don't even clue in that they're touching someone's stomach, they only think "BABY!" 

    I think that's why I don't mind them touching my bump, I know they're just excited about the baby.  The best are the friends who kiss the bump, haha awkward! (but still somehow okay with me). 

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    I think that's why I don't mind them touching my bump, I know they're just excited about the baby.  The best are the friends who kiss the bump, haha awkward! (but still somehow okay with me). 

    My mom barely lets me get into the front door before she's grabbed me with her face on my belly screaming "HI OLIVIA!!! ITS NONA!!!" I know she's excited since this is her first granddaughter.  my oldest is a boy, so she's ready to spoil this one.   my MIL lives 8 hours away, otherwise i'm positive she'd do the same.

     

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    I think that's why I don't mind them touching my bump, I know they're just excited about the baby.  The best are the friends who kiss the bump, haha awkward! (but still somehow okay with me). 

    My mom barely lets me get into the front door before she's grabbed me with her face on my belly screaming "HI OLIVIA!!! ITS NONA!!!" I know she's excited since this is her first granddaughter.  my oldest is a boy, so she's ready to spoil this one.   my MIL lives 8 hours away, otherwise i'm positive she'd do the same.

     

    haha mothers are the worst/best with this! LOL so funny! 

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  • I only don't mind if it is family and close friends. I don't think strangers should have the right to invade my personal space just because I am pregnant. I am proud of my belly. But I'm also proud of my boobs...



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    I only don't mind if it is family and close friends. I don't think strangers should have the right to invade my personal space just because I am pregnant. I am proud of my belly. But I'm also proud of my boobs...

    Same here!  The only people that would bother me would be strangers on the street.  I have never had that happen though, this pregnancy or last! 

  • Personally I don't mind too much if it's a close friend or family member, basically someone I know and who knows what I've been through. Random strangers just touching me kinda irks me. I've been sensitive around this pregnancy so people touching my bump just bugs me if I don't know the person.
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  • i only hate it when strangers touch me! it's just weird! i never thought i'd have random people just come up to me and rub my tummy.......... especially those that didn't even ask first, they just come up to you and start patting your stomach...... SO STRANGE.
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  • No random strangers have touched my belleh, but I'm perfectly okay with family and friends doing it. Doesn't bother me at all, if I know them
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  • I've been touched by random strangers and I hate it. I have a hard time saying anything, but I'm sure the look on my face is enough. Most people have been thoughtful enough to ask first. 
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  • "Yes, as long as you ask!" Many people are just curious and I am more than excited to let them feel it. As long as I feel comfortable it's fine with me. Also only twice have complete strangers touched without asking (one being in the Target restroom..  haha) usually it's just coworkers, friends, family members, etc.
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  • No strangers have touched my belly without asking - Thank Goodness!  But my autistic student at school thinks it's funny to stick her belly out and run into mine...this I am not cool with.

    I don't mind if my friends/family touch my belly.  Mostly it's just my sis, SIL and grandma that do it.  A few of the older ladies at church have touched my belly, but that doesn't bother me either.

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  • I'm ok with it as long as I'm asked first.  I think the most caught off guard I was was when I was working with special needs students this summer and one girl just ran up and grabbed my belly, yelling "BABY!!!!!!!"  I don't mind close friends and my close relatives doing it without asking, but it really irks me when others just latch on.  My MIL will stare at it (not me, just the bump) from across the room for a few seconds, like she's trying to decide if it's ok, then pounce like a cat or something.  It's kind of bizarre.

    Plus, I just feel awkward when someone is holding my belly and I'm just kind of there, like they have no interest in me, just my bump.  But I guess that's actually the case, so I shouldn't really be surprised.  

    I agree that it's like a badge of honor, and I'm all about dressing up the bump to show it off.  But, I like having my personal space, so I only want people in my bubble if they're invited there.   

     

     

  • I've never been approached by a stranger asking to touch my belly. As far as friends and family goes they can touch as much as they want but its nice when they ask before hand.
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  • I'm big on personal space.  I don't mind too much for family to touch, but strangers are a no-go.  When I was pg with my twins some crazy crack-head looking dude went for a feel in a gas station before a dr. appt, I baked up quickly and said, "please don't touch me", for some reason he was very startled by that.  In the grand scheme of things it wouldn't have hurt anything, but I don't feel it's appropriate to touch people you don't know in general, so why's it ok during pg.  I feel the same way about babies being touchd (what's so neat about touching a baby).  With this pg I'm a gestational carrier, the IP's (intended parents) and their family touched my belly before our first u/s and that didn't weird me, but their baby is already inside me, so what's the big deal if their hands touch the outside.

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