I can't stand people touching my belly, not even DH unless i invite him to. A bit extreme perhaps...... but yanno.
Besides the rubbing back, or saying please don't, i find talking about how much i don't like it lets people know how i feel. My whole family know i really don't like it so now it is a bit of a joke and if a new person is around they say "go on , touch her belly, i dare ya" and everyone has a laugh, so at least it is out there!
Luckily I don't mind people touching my belly, but I still think it's good manners for them to ask first. There is a girl at my work who is now pregnant as well, and I don't think she will cope very well when people try to touch her once her belly grows. She is definitely NOT a touchy-feely kind of person, and it wouldn't surprise me if she actually flinched and jumped back if anyone tried to rub her belly.
For me personally, I enjoy showing off my bump and letting people have a bit of a touch (and a chat in the case of one girl, lol). But I'm not sure how I would react if it were a perfect stranger though...
My MIL rubbed mine once and I must have given her a weird look as she hasn't done it again, when people do it its usually so out of the blue that its a bit of a shock - but raising your eyebrows and asking "Are you right there?" usually does the trick.........
The other thing I read in a pregnancy magazine which I'd love to see say is "I'm not a Genie, so feel free NOT to rub me" LMAO
We have a newsletter at our work which we all contribute too, so I wrote a small funny article about the pro's and con's of being pregnant with one of the con's being "People rubbing my belly, the next person who rubs it will get a belly rub back, don't dare me" and I have been left alone at work since. Although it was written in a funny context, the message was still there
i haven't reached this stage yet, but i'm not looking forward to it - i'm a bit weird about people touching me normally, let alone something quite personal!
i'm still getting used to people peering at my belly once they know to see if i am showing - i've spent years trying to hide the fact that i had a belly anyways & now people staring at it makes me feel so weird! it's like i forget i have an excuse now
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