Do NOT touch my child

When Courtney was a couple of weeks old, we went to Targé and we were in the little Starbucks area. I think this was one of our first outings, just the two of us. Anyway, I was waiting for my decaf latte and this lady comes up and sticks her grubby little hand into Courtney's car seat and touches my child!! I was so aghast, I didn't know what to say. She didn't ask or anything, she just touched her. How rude!! For all I know, she doesn't wash her hands after going to the bathroom or maybe she has a cold and just coughed all over her hands. My baby might BREAK!

Last week we went out for pizza and this guy comes up to our table to tell us how cute and well behaved our little baby is. (Well, yeah, I know. She's ADORABLE!) And then he proceeds to tell me he would just pinch her little cheeks if only he wasn't sick. OK, I'm glad that he recognized he was sick and he shouldn't touch Courtney. However, who said you could touch my kid in the first place??? If I walked up to him and pinched his wife's cheeks, how do you think they'd feel? They'd probably have me arrested for accosting her. But it's ok for them to touch my baby? I don't think so.

The same thing holds true when you're pregnant. In who's right mind is it ok to walk up to me and put your hand on my stomach? Especially, if I don't even KNOW you. If I walked up to someone and put my hand on their stomach I could be all, "so when are you due?," knowing perfectly well that they aren't pregnant.

Whatever happened to "personal space?"

And please person-I've-never-met-who-is-full-of-nasty-germs, don't touch my baby.