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Originally Posted by Innerzone
I agree, SilverTrees. I personally think it's bizarre and I would NOT have taken to it kindly if someone had felt entitled to paw me. Fortunately they did not. I would have been horrified and they would have gotten a swift and decidedly negative reaction.
It is *not* touching the baby. It is touching the woman. If the woman in question feels differently about that, or is ok with it, she can always invite contact. Period.
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Good points InnerZone. So based on what you have said, I have another question. Is part of the problem that some people do not perceive a pregnant woman as a person in her own right? She has supposedly become a combined unit with the fetus and they are interested in the fetus therefore they touch her? Though even if that were the perception, it makes me think of adults who think it's okay to touch someone else's child...to pat their head or tickle them etc....still a big boundary issue.