Don't Touch signs for babies WDYT?

[gctattoo]

TODAYMoms - Keep your filthy paws off my baby, please!

Personally, I would never be touching a stranger's baby. Who really does that? And maybe my surly demeanor staved off the touchers when DD was an infant? So I didn't have a need for a sign like this nor would I have used one.

What do you think about these signs?

[saylormama]

I think some people are too timid to ask and this would really come in handy. I know that people ARE that bold and will do that, even cashiers at places I shopped, strangers, etc. It's hard to know when you might encounter this so I think the sign is appropriate especially if you think you might not be bold enough to tell them to keep their hands off. (although some of THOSE kind of people may overlook the sign and then you'll still be in the situation where you have to tell them to beat it! ) haha

[kschick96]

I have a 7 month old with chubby cheeks and people(who I do not know) are constantly coming up and pinching his cheeks-saying what cute chubby cheeks. I find it upsetting-because who are these people and why do they think they can just come up and grab my son's face?! I usually give a little laugh and move my cart, so they get the hint to step back and say-yep he is a little butterball.

I would not use a sign personally, but if a person kept trying again and again to touch my baby-I'd tell them to back off!

[CW&M Mom]

One of the most common ways for a baby to get sick...outside of direct family members is for random people to touch the babies hands...who of course...put there hands in there mouth constantly.

As a mom with a young son on oxygen....we are constantly trying to keep him far away from everyone and anyone. I don't want him touched, sneezed on, or hacked on and most people are inconsiderate beasts when it comes to what they are willing to spread.

Most people that I meet...find it perfectly acceptable to go to the store, church, school, work ect sick.

How many times have I been walking the isles of a store and wonder "why on earth is that person hacking up a lung here". I understand needing to go to the pharmacy...or having to make a run for milk...but hacking through walmart for 2 hours is inconsiderate in the least. No one gives a flip what they spread to someone who has there own health problems...and could care less that it could kill that person or land them in the hospital.

Sorry to rant...this is why we live like hermits in our own home. I didn't have a sign like that for my child...as I didn't know they existed...but I asked everyone to not touch him please. I have friends that have that exact sign...because there child is on oxygen, or was a preemie, or has a trach and I don't blame them one bit.

It's RSV time. So that cold that everyone gets that they don't think is a big deal.....lands thousands and thousands of babies in the hospital each year and they don't all survive.

My son got parainfluenza and he has been on oxygen ever since. He got it from my daughter who got it from friends of ours...who didn't think to mention that there son was sick with a nasty cold before we came over to play.

[Kulis]

I don't know if I would have had the courage to use a sign like that, but I like it. I would never dream of touching a stranger's baby -- I don't like babies that much to begin with -- but some people had no qualms about trying to touch my kid.

[motherofmolly]

all sorts of people want to "touch the baby". i had no problems telling family to wash before touching my newborn....but you would be surprised at how quickly strangers would come up and grab a hand or rub their face before you could react.

i like the signs...but unfortunately people really dont read..and i can see them ignoring them

[3timesoccermom]

When my almost 22-year old was a baby I had her in a stroller with me as I waited in line at a department store and a grandmother type in front of me actually asked me if she could hold her. I was a new mom and was shocked that she asked but I did let her.

I feel once you're out in public you're constantly being exposed to germs anyway but I do think it invades your and your baby's "space" for someone to touch them.

[434Teresa]

I would love to have one of those when my twins were babies..They were so tiny that everyone wantted to touch or hole them if htey were not in a car seat ect. I woudl just say not thanks I got them..

[bali1228]

omg, the worst ones are those that can't read...toddlers and preschool girls! I HATED when DD was a baby that every flippen time we went out some snot encrusted, flu infected, mucous machine would come running over to my stroller and before I could make a run for it they would have their grubby little mitts all over my baby! The part I didn't get was the mom standing over them cooing "Awww, isn't the baby so cute? You just love to hug the baby don't you? That's soooo sweet!" I mean really? I know your 3 year old doesn't know any better, but dang it woman you do! My 4year old LOOOVES baby's, begs for a baby sister every day, but I am like the no-touch n*zi, because I remember what it was like to be a skeeved out new mom...so I don't let my kid touch other peoples baby's...unless they invite her to do so.

[wrestlegirl]

However did our grandparents survive to adulthood without signs like this to protect them??