Did your first baby look like their father?

[AmandaJ]

My oldest is the spitting image of my brother, except DS1 has red hair, lol.

[thepixie]

Everyone said DD looked exactly like the Bear. I think only one person ever said she looks like me and they had never met the Bear. Baby photos of her and the Bear are disturbingly similar.

[ezymay]

I think the primal thing was reversed for us so I would accept and bond with her (I had some issues) cause DD came out looking exactly like me!!!!

[maz]

Pfft.
Tell your MIL that she needs to stop smelling her farts.
Seriously...what is wrong with pale skin?????
J man has olive skin, I have 4 children and only V has olive skin...all my boys are as white as me ..
Dudie - my eldest is a spitter for me (I know I know poor bastard) and my other 3 have bits an pieces of both of us.

[helle]

i think there is some primal reason for babies looking much like their fathers in the first few weeks.

LOL

DS looks alot like DH too. And yep, I get sick of hearing all about it!

[Visitor7]

DD1 is a spitting image of DH (poor thing! lol). DD2 is a spitting image of me (YAY!) and DD3 is a bitsa of us both.

[*suz1*]

DS1 looked exactly like my DH as a baby until he was 4 months old, then he started to look a bit like both of us. He's 3 now and people are finally saying he looks more like me.
DS2 was a VBAC so we were lucky enough to have a 3D ultrasound at 34 weeks. DH was very chuffed that it was another bub that looked just like him (and at 13 months still does). Isn't it funny how it's so important to our blokes that their babies look like them? There's no disputing that we birthed our babies but I guess our men have no proof that they're the father.

On the skin thing, DS1 is a pale skin like me and DS2 has his Daddy's slightly less pale skin. Honestly, it's a roll of the dice what your baby inherits from you and MIL's will always be biased towards their offspring and genes. My DS2 looked like he was going to have red hair for a bit and my Mum kept saying it was from her Dad, but she conveniently forgets that her ex-husband and my Father is a redhead!

Don't stress about it, it's exciting waiting to meet your baby and see what they look like for the first time

[tattoo_mama]

Hahaha angelaartstudent didn't we discuss the only thing Kim gave Palmer was her eating capacity? She is such a mini you...
My DD is spitting image of XP, except she got my blue eyes (but his eye shape!)

[angelaartsstudent]

Hahaha angelaartstudent didn't we discuss the only thing Kim gave Palmer was her eating capacity? She is such a mini you...
My DD is spitting image of XP, except she got my blue eyes (but his eye shape!)

LOL I was waiting for you to reply, becuase it really is blantly obvious that Jade really *is* a spitting image of Phil! Always has been, I think, from when I first saw her at 6 weeks old!

[luna moth]

Depends which grandparents you ask!

I really thought she would look like my DH and was so surprised when she was born - for her first few days she looked just like me.

There is a theory that there's an evolutionary benefit to babies looking like their father in their first 12 months - to keep their father providing for the baby as he would know it was his.

[Rowellen]

My DS looks a lot like his dad. But his skin is more like mine.