https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:15:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-790319 Fri, 17 May 2013 08:42:09 +0000 GrapeCrush 790319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>strangers? no. strange people? yes! haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-790280 Fri, 17 May 2013 08:29:46 +0000 Alivoo01 790280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: Since I'm familiar with them, I'm okay with people touching my belly. Then again, if I didn't know them, not sure I'd say no because that'd be an awkward moment. haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787847 Thu, 16 May 2013 17:07:10 +0000 Mrs. Chocolate 787847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A guy I know at the grocery store did the other day and it took me by surprise but it was so quick I didn't do anything about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787821 Thu, 16 May 2013 17:01:39 +0000 sea_bass 787821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@VEGMAMA: ah that's lovely. Must have been very special for the older lady.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787756 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:38:41 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 787756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No strangers- I dont remember. Some friends: I always ran away and told them not to touch me. They would do it anyway. Oh well...<br /> @grizz: really? Really? Who touches a pregnant lady's bb? Weird. @Alivoo01: when people ask, what can you say? I usually just don't even know how to say no? I say "I don't like it.." But they will touch me anyways! I think they ask just to be nice but they really don't care about the answer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787710 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:26:47 +0000 tysonja 787710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hehe well friends and family touched my belly a fair deal, but I didn't mind. Strangers never did, EXCEPT for this one time a complete stranger grabbed my belly with both hands and kissed it! So surprised! We hadn't even been chatting/making eye contact before it occurred. At the time I just laughed and walked away.... LOL. </p> <p>I think I would rather that not happen again, though..... Hehe </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787705 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:26:23 +0000 Running Elley 787705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With LO #1 no strangers ever touched my bump! Just DH, my MIL, my SIL and my mom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787701 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:24:42 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 787701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: Yikes. I'm not good with boundaries. Guess I'll have to learn quick! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787693 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:22:52 +0000 Boheme 787693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@redsmarties: I've heard from the wives of the two other pastors that I need to set firm boundaries for post-baby since people get very adamant about bringing meals, visiting in the hospital and at home afterward, and getting to hold the baby.... and I thought the belly touching scared me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787633 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:13:47 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 787633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: Wahoo! I'm not the only one, haha. Yeah - its pretty awful - I feel so bad that I don't know these people, but its so hard to get to know everyone! Especially because we're new to this church! But they know me...and my bump haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787617 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:09:49 +0000 Boheme 787617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@redsmarties: I didn't know that! Pastors wives unite! :) I totally get the feeling of 'people recognize me, but I don't know them' and it didn't bother me til I got pregnant and everybody wanted to touch me and ask me personal questions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787580 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:16 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 787580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, sort-of strangers. My husband is a pastor, so lots of people at church recognize me, but I have never met them. So many women come up and rub my stomach, and I have NO CLUE who they are. But they no me - so they're not quite strangers I guess? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787563 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:17 +0000 Smurfette 787563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not strangers just coworkers that I really didn't know. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787525 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:56:04 +0000 Alivoo01 787525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not complete strangers, but I've had a few of our customers that we see often rub my belly. They ask first though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787521 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:55:42 +0000 Vegmama 787521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sea_bass: I know of a friend who had an older woman (in her 80's) ask if she could sit next to her while her baby breastfed at the park. A lot of our friends thought it was creepy, but I had the 'spread the love' attitude about it. That woman was way past babies and breastfeeding, and just wanting to be in the presence of it!! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787510 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:53:58 +0000 Vegmama 787510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pepper: Haha. That's awesome (the wave). I have people wave and talk to my dogs while we're on a walk, and they don't talk or make eye-contact with me. It's really odd. </p> <p>I don't have a bump yet, but I know I would never touch a stranger's bump!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-787432 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:43:10 +0000 MrsMed 787432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not yet, but coworkers feel like it's okay to ask me really personal questions and give unsolicited advice, such as "You should get an amnio like I did because you're over 38." Or, "You better tell the boss or stop wearing clothes like that." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786955 Thu, 16 May 2013 14:23:30 +0000 Beehive 786955@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Grizz: Ew, a *coworker* does that? The horror! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786894 Thu, 16 May 2013 14:15:55 +0000 Foodnerd81 786894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: Absolutely grounds for murder. That's so bizarre! I wouldn't even want DH messing with my belly button! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786841 Thu, 16 May 2013 14:07:47 +0000 Boheme 786841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsRoo: And she accompanies it with baby talk - "Oooh, wook at your wittle bewwy button!" Grounds for murder. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786770 Thu, 16 May 2013 14:01:10 +0000 .twist. 786770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Beehive: Me too! I've totally pep talked myself to be prepared if any stranger touches my belly to do it back! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786732 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:56:19 +0000 Beehive 786732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was all ready to touch their stomach if they tried, but no one ever did! I wonder if it's a regional thing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786727 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:55:31 +0000 lovehoneybee 786727@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One stranger, one time, when I was...33 or 34 weeks pregnant. I don't think it would have bothered me all that much, except we were leaving a very crowded restaurant (with take-out), there was a huge line at the register and the person was a cashier. She came out from behind the counter, grabbed my arm to keep me from walking, slapped her hand on my belly and told me I was having a girl. </p> <p>I was in too much shock to respond, but DH wasn't. He yanked me away and growled "don't touch my wife" at the woman. We were just laughing about it the other night, though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786720 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:54:24 +0000 MrsRoo 786720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: ahhhh, I'd cut someone (even a friend) if they had messed with my weird, preggo belly button! </p> <p>I only had 2 strangers touch my belly, and both times it was a quick pat on the belly. It was over too fast for me to really react. I loved it when friends and family wanted to touch it though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786714 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:53:21 +0000 avivoca 786714@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No strangers, but plenty of church ladies and my mother/MIL. I hate it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786702 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:51:52 +0000 Foodnerd81 786702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not yet. I've only even had a couple of friends/family touch it. Even my friends and family that have touched without asking always stop and are like, Oh, wait, is that OK? Except my dad, he has no boundaries and will try to shake it to see if the baby is awake. </p> <p>I'm surprised by how much I don't mind people I know touching it though-- I'm usually really self conscious about my belly, but since it's baby, not flab, all of a sudden I don't mind. Plus, it sort of doesn't feel like me-- like it's my skin over it, but it's the baby inside. If a stranger did, though, I'd be really weirded out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786697 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:51:07 +0000 swurlygurl 786697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! I was surprised at how few of my friends and family even touched it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786689 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:50:11 +0000 yin 786689@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't have any strangers touch my stomach when I was pregnant with my first. Hoping for the same this time around. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786684 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:49:03 +0000 Boheme 786684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes and I hate it!!! I have people who I've told to stop who STILL do it, and a coworker who loves to try to poke my bellybutton back in. Thankfully only one stranger has done it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diddo-strangers-touch-your-bump#post-786682 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:48:51 +0000 sea_bass 786682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, but it wouldn't bother me at all. Spread the love :-) </p>