Do you get offended when people you don't know come up to you touch your belly w/o your permission?

Question

If they ask nicely do you let them?

Answer 1

I look like a serial killer when I'm deep in thought, which is most of the time.  I don't mean to, but I do.  So nobody has even tried that yet....I suppose they are afraid they'd lose an arm.

I allow my mom and sister and niece to touch my belly without permission.  It doesn't really bother me.  

Answer 2

I will kind of get offended but when people do that you know thats molestation and if they asked nicely i wouldn't let them because it's just a retarded question to ask someone

Answer 3

I loved to let people touch my belly because I understood what pregnancy means for so many people. I never had anyone do it without asking unless I knew them...it would probably just have shocked me more than anything. I would have been shocked that they wouldn't have asked but I would have let them.

Anytime anyone asked to rub my belly I let them. Pregnancy means innocence and a new beginning for so many people and I think that in today's world people are desperate for the innocence that children bring and so they want a part of that...if even for a second. You can see it in their eyes...it is truly beautiful to watch that in a person's eyes.

The best are the old women. It is as if they are telling you that this is the best part of life and you can feel the truth behind it. It always made me pause and appreciate the life growing inside me and live in the moment.

Answer 4

If they are little kids, I wouldn't be offended, but otherwise, I would be. I probably would let anyone who asked nicely touch/rub my belly though.

Answer 5

it dont bother me none.. this is my first baby and me and my husband are overly excited and i just think its soo awesome to be prego and cant wait to meet my little man! they pretty much always ask to touch my belly if they dont know me but i wouldnt say no dont bother me at all that they touch it  

Answer 6

That was my biggest pet peeve when I was pregnant, even if I knew the person, I would absolutely HATE it when people touched me!!!!  I'm a nurse, so all of my patients would touch me, but, of course, even though I wanted to scream, I had to be nice! During my pregnancy, I noticed that I developed this tone of laugh that only came out when I was irritated (usually when people touched me or asked me for the millionth time about my pregnancy), it think it was my way of secretly venting to myself! Oh, to answer your question, even if someone would have asked me, which I never got, I probably would have said no.  

Answer 7

When i was pregnant with my son i had all sorts trying to touch my belly. Random sales assistants , ladies in public toilets , younger girls in shopping centers , old men even! I just backed away and asked them politely not to , be polite because some people really are just happy for you , but if they get right in ur face and start belly groping ide tell them to back off firmly, yes u r pregant , but what about personal space eh?

Sometimes u may be in a supergood mood and wont mind who touches ur belly, so if they ask and ur okay with it , just say yeh , if ur not okay with it , just say 'ide prefer you not to' and then just say thanku and walk away. Some people dont know whats accepted and others are just rude , so i think its up to you and how they go about it.

Answer 8

ok I dont have that issue Im kind of a ***** right now so most tend to stay away I do how ever have an issue with people telling me how "big" i am and asking me if Im sure its just 1 in there dont people know that for 1 thats rude as h**l and for 2 its like me asking them if they're pregnant or if theyre just fat as h**l ..... and it seems like older women are more likely to touch/say rude comments urghh