September 2014 Moms

Belly Rub or Belly Snub?

edited February 2014 in September 2014 Moms
Just for shits and giggles. Are you in the 'you can rub my belly' camp or the 'don't even think about it' camp?
Pregnancy Ticker
Image and video hosting by TinyPicimage

S14 August Siggy Challenge.....ALL OF THE ALCOHOLS
image

Belly Rub or Belly Snub? 161 votes

Belly Rubber
22% 37 votes
Belly Snubber
52% 84 votes
SS
24% 40 votes

Re: Belly Rub or Belly Snub?

  • Loading the player...
  • Husband only for me. I just ....can't.
    Pregnancy Ticker
    Image and video hosting by TinyPicimage

    S14 August Siggy Challenge.....ALL OF THE ALCOHOLS
    image

  • I don't mind. I think it's because I just love my oregnancy body and if someone wants to feel the belly, no worries. I don't think more than one person ever touched without asking though.
    About to be 2 under 2 up in here!

    BabyFetus Ticker


    Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
  • SS- depends on the person. Hubby yes he can touch it.. I'm on the fence about other family members and friends.. I'll decide later on. Strangers.. .no effing way



    Lilypie Premature Baby tickers image
  • I think it depends on the person. I did get my first unwanted belly attention this afternoon at work. My coworkers wife came in & came right over to my desk where I was typing away & she went right for the belly. Freaked me the fuck out. 

       Me: IR-PCOS, elevated DHEAs, low progesterone, weak ovulation  DH: low volume, low T
    SHG 5/10/13: both tubes blocked; HSG 6/28 = Left tube cleared! Right blocked.
    BFP#1 7/20/13 EDD 3/30/14, m/c 8/19/13, D&E 8/21/13, Chromosomal results = normal, female
    Lap & hysteroscopy scheduled for 10/31, right tube cleared, no endo found! ...Happy Halloween!
    Cycle 14: Clomid (50)+ IUI = BFP! EDD 9/16/14~ Rowan Elizabeth born sleeping at 17w4d on 4/12/14 due to IC.
    ~There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world~
    New RE June 2014. RPL b/w - negative. SIS looking for uterine/cervical abnormalities & Asherman's 6/10/14 - ALL CLEAR!  
    Cycle 16: Natural IUI = CP, Cycle 17: Femara (2.5) + IUI = BFN, Cycle 18 Femara (5) + IUI = BFFN, Cycle 19: Break
    Cycle 20: Clomid (50)+ IUI = BFP EDD 6/20, transvaginal cerclage 12/19, Carson Quinn born sleeping at 16w3d on 1/6/15 due to IC
    Phone consult with Dr. Haney (Univ of Chicago) for transabdominal cercalge scheduled for 2/9/15.
    "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
    image image imageimage 
  • No effing touchy. Except for medical personel and my husband....just creeps me out.
    {Me:27, Dx:PCOS, LPD, & rob(14;15)}
    {DH:31 all clear, "super sperm"}
    Ecstatically married July 30, 2011--TTC since Jan 2013:::Baby #1 due 9/11, Conceived on cycle #5 of Femara + Hcg + IUI
    ~Love and Light to everyone~ 
    image image
    My furbabies--Mr. Bubbles and Miss Kitty <3
    imageBaby Birthday Ticker Ticker  

    image image
  • I think I must give off a bad vibe or have bitchy resting face. I've never had someone come after my belly or my newborn and try to touch. 

    I honestly don't care. I mean, not now, don't rub my chub, but an actual baby bump, sure. 
    image
    image        image
    image
  • kirstynikolekirstynikole member
    edited February 2014
    I won't know until I'm in the actual situation but I think I'll mostly allow it. Growing up as a redhead people asked all the time if they could touch my hair, and being Hispanic my grandma always let some one touch my hair if they asked. I know it's odd but it's an old superstition to avoid Ojo or "the evil eye". As much as I hate to admit it, that weird superstition has rubbed off on me.

    https://www.rice.edu/projects/HispanicHealth/Courses/mod7/ojo.html
  • I don't like people rubbing my belly (husband can if he wants), it feels condescending if anyone aside from my husband does it.

    On a side note I get kind of annoyed by pregnant women that constantly rub their own bellies especially when they don't even really have a belly! Like they are trying to get people to ask if they are pregnant. I don't even run my own belly, unless it's by accident.

    image
    Married August 9, 2008
    TTC Since September 2009

    1st   BFP | EDD 10/23/10 | Natural M/C 03/27/10 | 10w 0d
    2nd BFP 06/26/10 | EDD 02/25/11 | Natural  M/C 07/17/10 | 8w 1d
    3rd  BFP 12/17/10 | EDD 08/24/11 | Natural M/C 12/31/10 | 7w 4d
    4th  BFP 06/22/11 | EDD 02/25/12 | M/C D&C on 07/27/11 | 9w4d
    5th  BFP 09/17/11 | DD Paige Lily born 05/16/12
    6th  BFP 08/11/12 | EDD 04/11/13 | CP
    7th  BFP 09/29/13 | EDD 06/04/14 | Natural M/C 10/27/13 | 8w1d
    8th  BFP 12/16/13 | EDD 09/01/14

    DX: Pericentric Inversion of Chromosome 8 & compound heterozygous for MTHFR mutations
    RX: Lovenox/Heparin & Folgard

    image

  • I voted SS because I am not certain on if/who I will let touch my belly. DH for sure. Maybe friends. Only time will tell.

    BFP#1 4/17/2013 EDD 12/25/2013, MC 5/17/2013 8 weeks 3 days D&C 5/18/2013

    BFP#2 1/20/2014 EDD 9/28/2014, Baby Evie born on 9/23/2014 at 8:50pm.  6 lbs 15 oz!

    Lilypie Angel and Memorial tickers

  • I won't care if friends and family touch my belly but strangers are a definite no.
    BabyFruit Ticker
    Baby boy Files due 9.13.14!

    image

  • Totally ok with family doing it. They get SO excited it makes me even more excited. Strangers...no clue. I must have a "don't come the heck near me" face because no one has ever even tried lol.
    image 
    BFP #2 - MC Aug 2012 - D&C w/ complications
    image
    imageimage
  • Am I the only one who isn't bothered by it?? Lol

    But when strangers touch my *out of belly* kids?!?? Arghhhhh!!! That's so weird to me!!!

    I'm with ya!! I don't really care! I lost my modesty and any sense of privacy a long time ago!
    But hands off the newborn babes!
    Pregnancy Ticker 
    DS1: 8/26/09    |    DS2: 11/1/11

    May Siggy, Favorite Onscreen Mom - Sophia, Golden Girls                                                                          
    image image
  • SS here. In general, Dont touch me. But if you are my mom or someone I'm close to you can touch, but I prefer you ask first. If you are a stranger and you try to touch me (I've never had this happen, but I've read a lot of stories) you better watch yourself, I may throat punch you.


       
    photo Untitled-1_zps25768757.jpg BabyFetus TickerLilypie Second Birthday tickers Image and video hosting by TinyPic
  • There is a guy at work that has tried to touch my belly twice since I announced. Hell no.

    But if my best friend or someone else I'm really close with tried to, I wouldn't mind.
    Me: 31 DH: 31
    Married 08/11/12 & TTC Since 10/13
    Previous Endo and Ovarian Cyst DX 
    March 2010: Lap. Surgery & D&C--removed 2 cysts 
    BFP: 12/20/2013 EDD: 09/03/2014 
    Travis Karel arrived on 08/21/2014 at 38w1d.
    BFP #2!  Travis is getting a sibling!
    EDD: 1/24/2017

    Mama to my two furbabies Sam and Phoenix
     
    Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
  • Totally depends on the person. Random stranger at target = no.

    MIL = yes
    Daisypath Anniversary tickers

    Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
    Pregnancy Ticker

  • Ftm but I don't think I'll mind.

    Of course in PA, it's illegal to touch a pregnant woman's belly without permission.

    Eliza Mae - September 16th, 2014
    Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPic
  • If anyone besides my husband try to run my belly I will throat punch them. WTF do people think it isnokay to invade my personal space and touch me just because I'm pregnant is mind baffling to me.
    Me: 30 Him: 33
    Married: August 2012
    BFP #1 9/2013 -- MC 10/2013
    DD: 9/22/2014
           
  • Am I the only one who isn't bothered by it?? Lol

    But when strangers touch my *out of belly* kids?!?? Arghhhhh!!! That's so weird to me!!!

    I'm with ya!! I don't really care! I lost my modesty and any sense of privacy a long time ago!
    But hands off the newborn babes!
    This.
    Me - J.R. - 05/1986
    DH - J.I. - 08/1986
    Married - 09/22/2006
    DD#1 - A.E. - 12/15/2009
    DD#2 - N.R. - 11/07/2011
    DD#3 - S.R. - 05/20/2013
      DS - R.E. - 10/03/2014

    Absolutely in love with our 'big' family!

    I'm also a proud Auntie to a crazy little girl, her brand new baby sister, a little man on his way in the next month, and a sweet little mister we will miss forever!!!
  • I originally picked SS because I couldn't figure out what the hell you were talking about.

    Then I read some posts...no way strangers can rub my belly. Yuck. My DH and my mom were the only ones who touched me last time.

                                                                            
                                                          
                                 image

                                       Katherine Quinn | 9.16.2012 | 38w4d

    image


    Ryan Lanman | 9.12.2014 | 40w

    image 

     

    2 Losses | 10/2010 @ 5w | 9/2013 @ 10w4d
    Little Sprout Blog

  • SS- depends on the person. Hubby yes he can touch it.. I'm on the fence about other family members and friends.. I'll decide later on. Strangers.. .no effing way

    This exactly.  
    BabyFruit Ticker

    image
  • Like many said, it totally depends on the person. DH? Yes. Family? Ok. Friends? Maybe. Co-workers? Getting weird. Strangers? Oh hell no! 

    ~*~
    Together since 03/27/2007
    Married 07/20/2013

    BFP #1 01/18/2014, EDD 09/26/2014, Team Green
    DD born 09/21/2014


     image image 
  • I don't even have a baby bump (i must have a glow or something that old people see, or maybe it's an "I'm pregnant" sign on my back) but twice on two different occasions (once before I even knew I was pregnant) old women came and asked me to rub my belly for good luck, and I let them though I was very hesitant with the first one because like I said I had no clue I was pregnant. But I don't mind as long as they ask first. Once the baby is born though, there will be NO touching!
    ECat504
    SO
    SD (11/2010)
    DD1 (09/2014)
    DD2 (10/2015)
    Baby Girl #4 (11/2020)
  • During my first pregnancy I thought I would hate it if anyone touched my belly, but  1) very few people actually did and 2) it didn't bother me when they did.

    Now, if it were a stranger - that's another story. If you wouldn't touch my arm while we're talking, there's no way you're touching my belly. But this is still a few months down the road. There's no bump yet.

  • Special snowflake: totally depends on the person. Husband, mom, sister = yes. Anyone else = a big fat no.
    This.
    image
    BabyFruit Ticker
     
    imageimage
    August Siggy Challange: Alcohol Porn - Get yer' drank on! 
    image
  • The idea totally weirded me out during my first pregnancy, but once it actually started happening, it didn't bother me when friends or family touched my bump.  Coworkers?  Um no.  Basically if we hug etc each other under normal circumstances, I don't mind belly touching if you ask first. 

    TOTALLY weirded out about people touching DD when she was a baby, though, esp because she was a preemie and I was very diligent about making people wash hands/use sanitizer/throw a burp cloth over their outside clothes before they touched her. 
    image

    DD1, born 4/10/11 at 32 weeks
    Cooking #2 :)  Due 9/18/2014

    BabyFruit Ticker
  • I do like my personal space, but if someone asks I don't care...as long as I know them.  I never had a stranger ask before.  And defintely not right now when I'm not showing. 

    Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker

                                      

           

     

  • I live in a place where a large part of the population is white female christians (the south), and have heard/seen many horror stories regarding this very subject. I'm a little irked when I am obviously pregnant as to how I'll handle the situation, b/c I do NOT like people touching me. at all. I'm not even a girlfriend hugger. and I work the sales floor in a grocery store every saturday, so .... that's going to be a nightmare.

    for those of you who have already been through this, how would you guard your bubble w/o offending people? 


    I live in the same type of environment.  When I told my ILs and my family that I didn't want to be rubbed, they cried. I'm not sure how I'm going to manage this one.
    Pregnancy Ticker
    Image and video hosting by TinyPicimage

    S14 August Siggy Challenge.....ALL OF THE ALCOHOLS
    image

  • @riveradove Also, here in MY south we have a couple of boys, even an African American or two and someone isn't a Christian, I'm sure of it. 

    Just wait until the black, male atheist wants to touch your belly. They are the ooey gooeyest about babies.


    Pregnancy Ticker
    Image and video hosting by TinyPicimage

    S14 August Siggy Challenge.....ALL OF THE ALCOHOLS
    image

  • I'm worried about the older ladies at church touching without asking, but I don't have much of a bubble with people I speak or hang out with regularly. Maybe its because I'm a hugger. We have a group of friends at church who are all around the same age/phase of life so I actually have a bunch of pregnant friends right now. I would not mind any of these people touching or rubbing once I have a baby belly (can I just say that I'm so looking forward to the baby belly taking over this bloat belly?). Family, even extended family, I wouldn't mind too much, even if they don't ask, although I would prefer extended family ask. I really don't have much of a bubble, except with strangers. Absolutely no strangers can touch or rub the belly. I think I'll be the type to offer to let friends touch when baby is kicking because I always want to feel other's babies kicking but never ask because I don't want to offend or have things get weird.

    image Baby Girl born September 23, 2014

    image

  • meh, i don't know who gets the most excited, but no one is laying a finger on my butterfinger
    Pregnancy Ticker
    Image and video hosting by TinyPicimage

    S14 August Siggy Challenge.....ALL OF THE ALCOHOLS
    image

This discussion has been closed.
Choose Another Board
Search Boards
"
"