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Baby looks like her daddy (lighthearted rant)

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scarednoob · 17/12/2015 12:16

Everyone keeps telling me how much DD looks like her daddy. I grew her for goodness sake, surely there must be something of me in there?!?

Do your DCs look like one of you or do you have a real mix? And what about non-physical things, do they take after the partner they resemble in terms of things like laughter, habits etc, or are they totally unique and you wonder where they got THAT from?!

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waitingforsomething · 22/12/2015 10:11

Both mine look like their dad and his family! He is gorgeous so I don't mind!

Luckystar1 · 22/12/2015 10:16

Interestingly, DS looked very like me (apparently) when born, and it took my DH quite a while to bond with him.

He's 14 months now, and truly, most people just look perplexed and say 'he looks like neither of you'!

Raxacoricofallapatorius · 22/12/2015 10:21

DD was and is my double. Same everything, just taller than I was. Photos of me as a girl may as well be photos of her. We have identical interests, temperaments, humour.

DS is the same with DH but he has some of my personality traits too.

We've replicated instead of reproducing.

NoManJan · 22/12/2015 10:24

My DD is just like me. When she was first born, she looked more like DH but now at 5 months, I can only see myself/my family. She looks just like my dad when she frowns poor thing

SquareStarfish · 22/12/2015 10:31

I was told by everyone my DD looked like my DH when born (midwives, my family, friends etc).

Apparently it's so the dads don't eat them!

Now she's nearly 2 she looks a lot more like me

Rshard · 22/12/2015 10:39

My dd is 10 and has always looked like DH, with just my blue/grey eyes which is a shame as DH has lovely green ones. However, people who are meeting her now, having not known her before, say they can see a resemblance to me too.

Personality wise, she's very sporty and competitive like DH but 'assertive' and strong minded like me!

Sameshitdiffname · 22/12/2015 10:42

Hope this makes you feel better everyone tells me my son is the spitting image of my dad!! Not me or his dad but my dad

He's only 3months so hopefully be grows out of it haha

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scarednoob · 22/12/2015 11:35

This thread is brilliant! It's so interesting/cute to see how they grow up

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vvviola · 22/12/2015 11:44

Both my DDs are carbon copies of me with the exception of hair and eye colour, which is closer to DH's.

There are photos of me at similar ages and you have to look closely at the clothes to tell which are of me and which of DDs. Recently DD2 has been doing this really weird expression (like a half-pout) and we've been wondering where it came from. DH fell about laughing when we visited my folks the other day and there's a picture of me at the same age, making the exact same expression

Mercedes519 · 22/12/2015 11:50

No one would pick out my two as being siblings but I definitely grew them both (with just the one DH). Like many people on this thread PFB looks like DH and DD looks just like me.

And like the another poster on this thread DD suits a short bob, as do I. Mine is now a slightly longer bob to avoid the mini-me look!!

Sameshitdiffname · 22/12/2015 11:52

Also I'm the only one of my siblings who doesn't look like either of my parents the only way I know I'm definitely theirs is my height, otherwise I'd honesty question if they're my parents!

GastonsPomPomWrath · 22/12/2015 11:56

Lots of people tell me that all my children look like me. Lots of people say they're all similar to eachother even though 3 of them have a different father to the youngest 2 so I guess they must look somewhat like me.

However my mil will not allow anyone to say that the youngest 2 look like me at all. The 3 yr old is the spit of her dad (that I accept, I think different people can see different resemblances) and the 10 week old is like my husband's cousin on his mother's side obvs. Not like me whatsoever, no.

ijustwannadance · 22/12/2015 11:59

My DD has my eye colour and attitude. I can see as she is growing she will be physically similar to me when grown up but she looks nothing like me.

NotCitrus · 22/12/2015 12:03

Ds looked just like me, to the extent that people would stop me in the street to say "my god, your baby looks just like you!"
Dd looked just like MrNC.

Somehow by the time dd was 2.5, they both look like each other. I have brown hair. MrNC has black hair as did baby dd. They are now mousy blonde!

There are photos where you can only tell whether it's me or ds by the furniture in the background. Though people always thought I looked like my dad (size and colouring) and its only since seeing ds that you now see I have the same shape eyes as my mum. Which made it slightly less shocking to see my cousin who I hadn't seen for 20 years, who is 8 years younger, and is now the spitting image of me - our parents can't tell us apart in photos! My mum sent her dad a pic of me with newborn ds and he asked who had taken that pic of cousin and her baby!

ThreeLeggedCat · 22/12/2015 23:06

My DS has my DH's stubbornness and my stroppiness - it's quite a combination

DetonationStation · 28/12/2015 10:09

If this helps at all, the first 6 months or so everyone told us that DD looked like DP so much, but nothing like me.
We used donor sperm to conceive her.

I have concluded that people look for and comment on likenesses whether they exist or not

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