Post by Ashley Austrew.
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One of the most stressful things new parents deal with is the fact that so many random strangers love to touch newborns. Before you have kids, it seems like people are exaggerating when they say that. But once you have a newborn in tow, you realize it's not a myth -- an alarming number of people see nothing wrong with rubbing their gross hands all over a fragile, new baby. That's why a few geniuses started making handy signs that warn people to keep their hands to themselves. But after they got shared in an online mom group, it quickly became obvious that not everyone is feeling them.