She looks exactly like her father!

kaydogger

OK, maybe I'm being totally silly but if I hear one more time how DD looks *just* like her Daddy, I'm going to scream. We had a family party last weekend and many were meeting her for the first time and the instant they look at her the first thing out of their mouth was *laughs* "She looks like like her Father!"

Not to say my husband isn't attractive, haha. BUT she's my first little girl and I want a bit of genetic credit!  

Reminder: I'm not actually mad about this, it just is a silly pet peeve. I only carried her for 9 months, gave birth to her and here she is, a little replica of her Dad. 

kewltif

Well your daughter is absolutely beautiful, so DH must be a good looking guy

Funny enough, I feel like my DH gets a little irked that DD looks so much like me. It's almost insulting, LOL! He's holding out that her eyes stay blue like his.

KMAXON

I feel exactly like this!!!! We live in the same town as DH's family, who I adore, but all I ever hear is how much she looks like him.  She looks like me too! Just because you didn't know me as a baby.   Yesterday FIL posted a picture to my facebook of how much DD looks like DH's sister as a baby.  I wanted to scream.  

 It just bugs me.  I carried her for nine months.  I went through a 33 hour labor.  I got a 4th degree tear.  She's mine too!

abrazz

DS looks just like his daddy but it doesn't bug me too much.  The first time I saw his profile I thought, there's no denying he's his daddy's boy He does have a single dimple like I do, but that is the only resemblance at this point. 

P0upette

I get it too. thank God DS sleeps exactly the way I do, fist under the chin. At least he gets that from me.

 What is weird is that I don't really see it. For me DS looks like a baby and not really like one of us yet.

kewltif

P0upette:

I get it too. thank God DS sleeps exactly the way I do, fist under the chin. At least he gets that from me.

 What is weird is that I don't really see it. For me DS looks like a baby and not really like one of us yet.

I didn't see it at first either until I started looking at our baby pictures and could see that DD was the spiting image of me.

heikem87

I know how you feel. The day of her delivery when my family came to visit me in the hospital everyone was like: oh she looks just like daddy. My thoughts were: Well wish daddy was in labor for like 12 hours and feel my pain. I gotta admit it still bugs me a little to hear it from anyone that she just looks like him.

txaggie2002

I hear this all the time too.  It's kind of annoying.  There's no way she looks JUST like him when she has long dark brown hair like I did when I was born and my husband was bald and eventually had blond hair.

I read somehwere though that this is actually some kind of survivial thing from back in the day where babies do actually look more like their dad at first so the father was sure it was his and would provide for the baby.  Once they get older the blend of mom and dad evens out.

lizardknitter

From what I've read, it's a biological imperative for babies to look like Daddy.  This is a holdover from caveman times to prove paternity.  Of course, who really knows!  But DD is definitely a carbon copy of my husband!

Ash&Vic

I hear you! lol. It's not so much the "She looks just like her father" comments that get to me ...its the "she got her [insert random body part] from [ insert random relatives name]" that drives me batty.

Seriously...don't mind me I'm just the baker.

je2161

A lot of people say that DD looks just like DH, but I think she has my smile

JasonKristen

DD looks just like her daddy and I like it because he was the cutest baby ever.. unlike me.  I was a baldy forever.  Hope all my kids come out looking like daddy, but then eventually look like me

mbritto4

My sister is 25 and is a red haired feminine clone of my Dad. My DD1 changed a lot over the years as far as who she looks like. She looks more like me now but with MH's eyes and a hybrid of our hair.

MommaA117

From the second DD was born everyone said she looked like DH. Just this week I had three people tell me she looks like me now with his dark hair. Who knows. I saw the resemblance to him and do admit it's faded and she is becoming much lighter complected so maybe that is why they're saying she looks like me now.

kaydogger

JasonKristen:

DD looks just like her daddy and I like it because he was the cutest baby ever.. unlike me.  I was a baldy forever.  Hope all my kids come out looking like daddy, but then eventually look like me

 haha, that is the one thing I would want. DH had a full head of hair by one and I was bald until I was three! (I was three months premature but still, I was seriously bald for a long time).

Baileysmommy2007

LOL i know how you feel.  My DD looks nothing like me (except maybe her eye shape) but looks like my DH as far as features.  She looks like neither of us as far as hair/eye color as we have dark/dark and she is blonde/hazel.  Now DS looked a lot like my DH when he was 1st born but is actually starting to look more like i did when i was a baby.

AshNichole23

I know EXACTLY where you're coming from. I'm white (blonde hair and blue eyes) and my daughter's father is Hispanic.  His genes are obviously dominant and she is his little mini me.  To make it worse, he is NOT involved in our lives and everyone tip-toes around comments that she looks just like him. Come on people, I can see it too.  
I get more upset when people say, "oh no, she looks just like him".  Like it's a bad thing!?  I obviously cared for him and found him attractive, and I think my daughter is gorgeous, so no, I'm not upset she looks like him. At least she has a nice olive complexion!! 
Your daughter is gorgeous, and they change sooo much in this first year.  She may still mold into a nice mixture between you and your DH.

NJMom050911

I hear ya! My LO has been called mini Mike, his twin and a spitting image. Even my own mother says it's like carrying around a little Mike! Grrr Thankfully he's starting to look a little more like me now lol

katmiller0

Yes, I am in the same boat...my little girl looks nothing like me.  I am really blond and fair skinned and have an olive skinned, brunette baby with none of my features exept the blue eyes.  I asked my brother if he saw any resemblance and he said it didn't look like I was even involved.