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That would annoy me too. People touch my baby but he is not at risk like yours. If your baby gets a cold he may have a harder time with recovery. Semi-solution - I would avoid looking people in the eye, that way they won't feel like they can spark up a conversation with you about your baby, and then start touching. When I am in a c___p mood, I also avoid eye contact. Sometimes I can see that people are looking at him and want me to say something to them. It's hard to have a cute baby sometimes, isn't it? :)

Hi, I do not let people touch my baby in public that I dont know. I have actually told people NO. If you do it once you wont have a problem or a guilty feeling. Also, they sell the germ-x products that you can strap to your diaper bag. Instead of making family wash hands, just have them germ-x up! My thing was, all of my family wanted to put their fingers in Amaya's mouth (its disgusting!!!) That made me really uncomfortable, so the next time I saw them do it, they were grounded from her. I told them not to do it, and then when they would ask to see her I would say no that she will get infected from them! You will get called names like "Overprotective, Unfriendly" things like that, dont let it get to you, you are the mom and you have the final say. They could think about it like this... You could just keep your baby home all the time and never let anyone see him. Just dont feel bad. As for people in public, JUST SAY NO! If you want to be nice tell them you are in a hurry and cant stand around to chat. But remember, the baby area of any store will attract more touchers! It seems like the old smelly ladies hang out there just waiting to find a "new" baby to touch and breathe and sneeze all over! Good luck!

Thanks for all of your advice, I will DEFNITELY try it and I'm happy to know I'm not the only mom who feels this way. It hurts my feelings when my own family members call me names because I don't want my baby getting germs from them. I do need to be a bit more firm in saying no as well and it does seem to be the old ladies touching the baby all the time...weird. Thanks again everyone!!

When i had my first daughter and everyone wanted to touch her i would mention that she has a cold or some other illness that would get them sick if they held or got too close to her.It usually worked.The most craziest story i ever told anyone was that my daughter had the flu and explosive diareah and it always came out the diaper when she she c___pped.It worked both times ive said it.My mother in law backed up and was like " well nice seeing you guys, i got to get home to cook and........clean"

Get a shirt printed up for your baby to wear. "Stay away" or "dont touch" or Keep your germs to your self."

The trick is to encourage people to keep their distance without actually being rude...One good way is to use a travel system stroller, and put the roof on the stroller and the roof on the car seat up...no one can see your baby, so they're not going to touch. Also, you can use a sling to carry the baby, which makes them almost impossible for strangers to touch. I never had a problem with people touching my daughter, but I really didn't like it when someone came up and wanted to pray over her...I still don't get that...and it happened a LOT! The scariest thing that ever happened was when my daughter was almost a year old, a woman came up and picked her up out of the shopping cart and started walking away, fast. I ran after her, took my daughter, and pushed the woman to the ground. It turned out that the woman was mentally handicapped, but I couldn't feel bad for pushing her, she had scared me to death!

O my gosh, I probably would have punched her too. Those are some good ideas, it just seems like no matter what I do, people touch my baby. I guess I'll just make sure to be more cautious, I tried the no eye contact thing and it that worked.

I agree with E about not making eye contact. I tried to avoid looking at strangers when I was out with my son when he was young. If they looked like they were going to touch or say something I would hover over him and pretend I was playing with him and ignore them. That way they could get close to touch and most would look and just walk away. I also had a carry that I would put in the cart and I would keep the hood up. Usually he was asleep anyway and that would keep people from peering at him and touching. I think the more friendly you look and are like look at my baby people will come and check them out. I look grouchy most of the time and they leave him alone but when my mom was with him she was practically trying to show him off and strangers would come around.

LOL Mel! Looking grouchy will most certainly scare the touchy-feely types away. Better yet, wear a t-shirt that says "BITCH". Heehee.

I was standing in line at the grocery store, Elijah was about a year old, and I was standing next to the carraige putting groceries on the belt when I saw a man's hands holding Elijah's hands out of the corner of my eye. I flew around to tell him to get his hand's off my baby and I realized that it was my husband's boss. I am sure I looked p__sed when I turned around. He backed up and threw his hands over his face. I was so relieved when i saw who it was. I felt like an a__s but he did scare me. My husband and I ran into him a few days later and he told my husband that I nearly a__saulted him.

I was in Shoppers drugmart last week and I was exchanging a bag of diapers, and was trying to hold Cay (she was sort of sitting on the counter and leaning against me) and this woman gets in line behind me... she says 'Oh i just HAVE to see her', so I shifted cay so she could see and the woman A COMPLETE STRANGER picks her up, and says 'I will hold you while your mommy finishes what she is doing' I had no idea what to do, I wanted to grab cay back and yell at the woman, but I was also in the middle of a busy store. The woman behind the counter i think senced that i was about to lose it and she took the paper from me and said i was done ( i had only put my name, my address and phn number was still blank) I took cay back from her and walked out of the store.... i dont know why someone would just pick up a child that wasnt theirs without at least asking first!!!!

Aren't some people weird? That kind of happened to me the other day, I was buying like two items and a lady comes over and looks at my baby and asks if I need help. I'm so used to doing things on my own that I said no thanks. My baby smiles at everyone so he is so inviting to strangers. It's always the older ladies who touch him and feel so open to getting close and talking their heads off to him...hes a baby, he doesn't care, he just smiles. Maybe since our generation has troubles with people touching their kids, our kids won't have to worry about older people touching their kids...because by that time we'll all be super old. haha. Thanks for all your comments guys!!!