I was a premmie so had that sort of odd premmie face and head shape...so no one looks like I did as a baby!
There is no mistaking that DD looks like I do now - even strangers comment on it - as Tattoo Mama put it "It looks like you had sex with yourself!" :-D
I am planning to soon return to my natural hair colour - which is identical to DD's (but she is already darker then I was at her age), so that willl make it worse!
The only way DD resembles DH is the way she shoves food into her face lol.
DS looked exactly like his daddy. I keep looking at photos of him and can't see anything of me in him. I know he's mine though - we've the birth photos to prove it
i know they look similar but i havent seen pics of DH as a baby or even a kid younger than 14 but DS looks like BIL like spitting image and so far DD looks like me all over but shes got time lol
Yeah I've been told about the "spitting image of their father" for the few days/weeks because it went back to the cavemen times or something? If the baby looked like the man then they wouldn't walk out on their woman... so thats where it stems from.
Its true in the case for all my children - at BIRTH they were the spitting image of DH, now they pretty much all look like me.. LOL.. (poor buggers) Especially DD2, she's my spitting image of what I looked like as a baby.
Everyone says DD1 looks like me, but its just her eyes (they all got my brown eyes). When you see photo's of her & DH at the same age they are identical. I had people (his brother's family) pull me out in the street saying 'that's A's baby!' when they'd never met me! (They were both bald til they were 3 )
DD2 looks more like a mix of both our sisters & DS looks like a mix of DH, my dad & my brother.
DD3 looks more like DD1 & DS, but I'm hoping she's a brunette, coz DD2 might start to wonder, lol
When DS1 was born apparently my MIL said he was the spitting image of my BIL!!!
I was under so much medication I didnt really get to have a good look at him til the next day and by then he looked like hubby from nose upwards but me nose downwards because of his little bum chin lol! now looking at him nearly 2 years later he has my rounder face, my blue eyes, stumpy legs and great skin but he has hubbys ears and thats about it lol!
DS2 when born looked like me with the round face and again bum chin but he also has his dad's ears again but he also has his dads long body which is different to DS1.
MIL was happy to describe him as another BIL look alike stupid woman!
Nothing like a cuddle from DD after a hard day's work!
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Theres a chinese saying that teh first daughter always looks like your brother. My DD was a spitting image of my brother and even my mum couldnt tell them apart when i pulled out a pic of him and pretended it was my daughter lol
My DD1 looked like my DH when born but now looks like me my DS looked just like DH but has my skinny build and my DD2 is the spitting image of her dad in everyway right upto his massive head she has only just grown into her head it was 37cm at birth the peditrician thought her head was odd until he measure my DH head then laughed
All my kids looked like their father at birth. Actually all 3 of them looked identical to each other at birth, I have a hard time trying to figure out which one is which in some photos.
*SIGH* both my two are the spitting image of their dad! and everyone feels the need to comment on it, if they didnt come out of my whoohaa i'd seriously question if i was their mother! lmao
hoping this little guy looks like me so i can say haha ur son looks like me, but not liking my chances
Nope. DD1 was a dead ringer for me at birth and now at 3 years old, you can hold a picture of me at that age next to a photo of her and the only way to tell the difference is I had an 80's mullet :/ DH even got concerned when DD1 was a newborn because she had almond-shaped eyes (my little brother has them, I did as a little kid but they've opened up a bit as I've grown up) and he thought maybe the milkman was of Asian descent lol!!
Then DD2 was born and right from the minute she popped out facing the ceiling, she's been DH all over - all she's missing is the doodle! Before she even opened her eyes and started to cry, she looked just like a tiny, almost-bald DH covered in grease lol :/ Once we wiped her down and discovered the strawberry blonde curls, we knew we'd got one of each - a mini-me and a mini-DH. At 18 months she's DH in every single way, from the cheekiness to the facial expressions to the position in which she sleeps at night. So cute!
It is common for babies, whether first or fifth, to resemble their father in the early weeks/months of their lives, but it's not always a guarantee and it certainly doesn't mean anything - DNA is a complicated thing on its own, let alone when it mixes with someone else's to create an entirely new human being! It does seem to be common for both sides of the family to want to 'lay claim' to a new baby by having it resemble family members though so I hope your MIL's remarks are coming from a desire to bond with the new baby as well as she can
DS1 i think was a little more like me, DS2 was a little more like DH and DD is DH all over. Oh but they have all got my blue eyes (DD's still may change though)
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