About Pregnancy & Childbirth: Hands Off the Belly!

About Pregnancy & Childbirth Pregnancy & Childbirth

Your small business full-time assistant Join the 500,000+ people using Shoeboxed to streamline accounting and bookkeeping. Turn a pile of receipts into digital data to save time, money and hassle. From our sponsors

Hands Off the Belly! Oct 28th 2013, 22:05 Strangers touching your belly happens so frequently in pregnancy, it's often thought of as a side effect of pregnancy. The problem is not simply that it's strangers, but friends and family too. Most people simply don't like to be touched without giving consent. Now some pregnant women feel differently, particularly if it's someone they know. One mom said, "I know they just want to be a part of a miracle, who can resist?" But there are just as many moms who says - Hands off! Now in Pennsylvania, a man is being charged after hugging a pregnant neighbor and touching her belly. The mother-to-be called the cops. Apparently you can be charged with harassment if you touch someone with the intent to harm, annoy or alarm them. My guess is the technicality here will be trying to prove the intent, even if the product was harm, annoyance or alarm for the mother-to-be. So nuisance to deal with or chargeable offense? Where do you draw the line personally? Hands off the belly! Moms weigh in on belly touching Photo © Fotolia Hands Off the Belly! originally appeared on About.com Pregnancy & Childbirth on Monday, October 28th, 2013 at 22:05:46. Permalink | Comment | Email this

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions