Am I wrong for not wanting strangers to touch my newborn baby?

[Babyseal23]

So I dont actually have a newborn yet... im 31 weeks pregnant with my first child.

I dont mind family and friends showing my baby affection and see that as perfectly normal but it got me thinking earlier when I a tiktok of a young mother with a newborn was complaining about going shopping and having an elderly lady touching her newborn and telling her how to dress her baby as the baby wasn't wearing socks but it was also 26ºc so she didn't want to overheat the baby.

All the comments were calling her a snowflake and there was a lot of older women saying this is the problem with her generation etc.

Personally Im totally on the young girls side why do strangers especially boomers think they have the right to touch someone's child they don't even know and can't just mind there own.

How do we know there intentions are meant well and even so they could spread germs to a newborn and its just creepy too. I remember reading a news story recently about a mother who asked a lady to please not kiss her newborn baby and she did it anyway and gave the baby a coldsore and sadly the baby got sick and died.

Why do some people feel so entitled to stranger's children and not respect there wishes as if new mothers have no idea and dont deserve respect.

I recently had to explain to my husbands uncle who is downs but when the baby arrives there is no kissing the baby as thats how new baby's can get poorly.

It took him awhile to come round to understanding but my in laws backed me up and he understood eventually so if he can why can't these people?

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Nah, it's your child and should be able to raise them however you want (within limits of course). I love that the ones being triggered by being told to keep their damn hands to themselves is calling the person in the video a snowflake. Pot meet kettle.

Now I will say I grew up in the south and am half mexican so it's especially a custom with older women to want to touch your baby to bless them in a way (keeping the baby from having bad luck kinda). Still, you have no idea if they wash their hands, if they are sick, or any various other reasons you wouldn't want your child to be touched by a complete stranger.

Do what's best for your child and not give in to peer pressure or superstitions.

[Tiffany_Taylor_Made]

Strangers should never, under any circumstance, touch your newborn baby. Not wanting them to touch your child should never be considered "strange" at all.

[jahaims]

No, that should be what you do. Who the fuck lets strangers touch their children.

[Iron_Man]

What do you mean touch like hold them in their arms

[Babyseal23]

Just in general. If your a stranger your hands shouldn't be going anywhere near someone else's child unless let's say for example they fell over and you helped them up

[Iron_Man]

Well, then, keep the stranger away. Try to be polite, but pull the cart back or something.

[Staximus]

No stranger should be touching your child. A baby is not a dog

[slatyb]

No, you are very right. Touching is reserved for close family.

[queenofcardio]

You're feelings are valid

[In_Trance]

Nope