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Stuff you're glad your kid didn't inherit from you

groovylocksgroovylocks member
in December 2015 Moms
My kid looks nothing like me. At all. She used to look like her father but now she doesn't look much like him either. We are different ethnicities and look very different so likely she just kind of met in the middle.

I spend too much time trying to find myself in her. But there are things about me i'm glad she didn't get. 

I'm glad she didn't get my terrible eyesight. I'm almost blind in one eye and while the other one is fine. having only one good eye has an impact on depth perception. I also apparently see double (i am rarely aware of it unless i'm drunk or tired.) The whole BS is likely inherited and i'm SO glad Olive seems to have good depth perception. (When she reaches for my finger she gets it on the first try - i'm not even good at that game) 
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  • Mizuiro007Mizuiro007 member
    I'm glad DS didn't get my monkey toes. He got my long fingers but I'm glad I don't have to deal with the karma of toe pinches. DD most definitely did not get monkey toes either.
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  • dec15mumdec15mum member
    My thumbs. I have really short thumbs compared to my fingers and so far his are normal
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  • chillmama1518chillmama1518 member
    keiragann said:
    My LO got nothing from me :( He looks just like his dad. I just hope he gets something from me. I found this picture the other that explains it so well.
    This! My boy is my husband's mini-me. Although he got my hair I guess! But that's not a bad thing. 
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  • Gingermom15Gingermom15 member
    keiragann said:
    My LO got nothing from me :( He looks just like his dad. I just hope he gets something from me. I found this picture the other that explains it so well.
    My little man didn't get anything from me except my hands, feet and red tint to his hair. He is the spitting imagine if his father with traits of my dad. I'm super happy he did not inherit the ears of my grandfather like my nieces and nephews did. I can definitely say my son dodged a bullet avoiding those things. 
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  • taysuntaysun member
    DD has most of my features, but a few are up in the air. 
    She has my chin, my lips, my ears and my eyes and eyebrows. 
    Her nose is looking like mine but my SO and I have similar noses and hers is really too small to tell right now. Her hair line looks more like mine right now but might fill in some, SO and I both have widows peaks but mine is deeper. 
    She seems to have his coloring but does have the coloring I was born with and I lightened up a lot around a year old so time will tell. 
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  • ammnam14ammnam14 member
    DD looks nothing like me now. She is DHs mini me. :(
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  • misamimamisamima member
    Both of my daughters are my mini me's. They look just like me, except they have DH's very fair and light skin. 

    Too early to tell what LO has inherited from me. But with DD, I sure am glad she inherited DH's very laid back and easy going attitude. I'm more on the high strung and anxious spectrum. She's also very patient and gentle like him. I'm hoping to get lucky twice with LO. 
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  • laurabwalkerlaurabwalker member
    ammnam14 said:
    DD looks nothing like me now. She is DHs mini me. :(
    Same for us
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  • RSB1982RSB1982 member
    Most everyone says that DD looks like me.  Everyone but my mother oddly enough.  She says she looks like DH.  

    I'm just hoping that DD doesn't inherit my anxiety gene.  DH is cool as a cucumber.  Hopefully she takes after him.
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  • ATolentino89ATolentino89 member
    DS was the splitting (??) image of DH when he was born but is starting to look more like me. I still think he is an exact 50/50 of us. I am Filipino and DH is Native American. 
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  • yl1m32015yl1m32015 member
    I'm a complete mix of both my parents and I think dd is a mix, but looks more like me than dh. He's there, but not as prominate. Everyone says she looks like me, except for mil. Dh looks exactly like mil so of course she'd want my child to look like her lol. 
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  • KRH6829KRH6829 member
    keiragann said:
    My LO got nothing from me :( He looks just like his dad. I just hope he gets something from me. I found this picture the other that explains it so well.
    My two year old son looks exactly like my husband. His name is Nick, so people call my son Nick Jr.  even though that's not his name. I think that DD has some of me in her, which makes me happy...I did all of the work...I deserve for some of me to show through jn at least one of our kiddos!!!
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  • Mizuiro007Mizuiro007 member
    DS so came out his daddy's mini me. Everyone claims he still is but his facial features and expressions now look so much like my brother and I when we were his age. FIL has always claimed he looked more like me so maybe he was right, just took a while to show.

    When I spent months looking for myself in him, I remembered something I'd been told a while back. Look at the pinkies. You get your hands from one parent or the other and it's most notable in the pinkies. DS has my hands. Just seeing anything at all that he got from me made me feel a bit better. Also as he's older he'll do something that makes me think "oh, there I am". I'm sorry baby, mommy made you a klutz like her.
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  • groovylocksgroovylocks member
    dmendo01 said:
    DD looks like me essentially but I think she has DHs eye shape and maybe his nose. He's fair with sandy blonde hair and LO definitely got the Mexican gene ;) but like mentioned on other thread her eyes are still blue and I hope they stay light!



    ETA - her hair won't lay down on her head any more and it's the cutest thing ever. 
    She really is a beauty! 
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  • ksrkimksrkim member
    I don't really see myself or my hubby in either of my boys. They both have expressions where their eyes look like many people in my family.

    I'm just so happy that I had two boys because chances are, if either was a girl, they would have my hair. And my hair is horrible and very high maintenance. 
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  • TomekiaBTomekiaB member
    I think DS looks so much like I did as an infant it is crazy. Luckily he is a happy baby like DH was, I am so glad he is not the colicky terror I was at his age. I was honestly terrified DS would have colic like I did. I think in general DS acts more like DH most of the time, they share a lot of postures and facial expressions.
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  • KRH6829KRH6829 member
    Mizuiro007 said:
    DS so came out his daddy's mini me. Everyone claims he still is but his facial features and expressions now look so much like my brother and I when we were his age. FIL has always claimed he looked more like me so maybe he was right, just took a while to show.

    When I spent months looking for myself in him, I remembered something I'd been told a while back. Look at the pinkies. You get your hands from one parent or the other and it's most notable in the pinkies. DS has my hands. Just seeing anything at all that he got from me made me feel a bit better. Also as he's older he'll do something that makes me think "oh, there I am". I'm sorry baby, mommy made you a klutz like her.
    DS is my husbands twin, so I was hoping DD would at least look a little bit like me. No luck in the looks department, but she totally had my hands. She has long skinny fingers just like me!  It made me so happy. 
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  • LeggoxMyxPreggoLeggoxMyxPreggo member
    I'm glad he didn't get my nose or my crooked fingers. I'm waiting to see what happens with his eyesight :\ my husband is nearly blind lol but my mother and brother are similar. 

    Otherwise he seems to be a blend. Which is perfectly lovely ❤
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  • blended10blended10 member
    I'm glad dd didn't inherit my Wilma flintstone feet (ds did) & so far has her daddy's blue eyes (ds was born with my chocolate eyes straight away). She looks a lot like both of us, as does my son.
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