Do all in-laws insist the baby only looks like their side of the family???

My in-laws all say my daughter looks exactly like her dad and other members of their family. But she’s literally a carbon copy of me when I was a baby.

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Mine doesn’t lol they say she’s a perfect mix

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Toxic ones will do that. They only want to believe their genes made the baby

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Yes 😂 In laws all say she looks just like daddy and my family is always say she looks just like me lol Both are right! If you look at baby/child pics of my SO and me when we were little we could have been mistaken for siblings! Lol

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I think so. My family says my babies look just like me and his side of kinda 50/50 but most say they our children look like him. And when we go out in public it’s 50/50 of who they say our children look like but like hey they are my husbands sons and they are also my sons and we made them together so ofc they look like us I would hope so anyhow 🤣🤣

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My toxic ex-in-laws do. My son looks like me more than his dad. His hair is brown, but has red undertones. Even my family did until I showed them comparison pictures and then they saw what I was saying.

It's annoying.

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My MIL does this every damn time we see her, it’s getting really annoying now to be honest! Reels off every member of the family my boy looks like or personality traits he has. But never ever says he looks like me or makes an effort to ask about my side of the family either. Xx

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I know mine do and it annoys me each and every time they say something 🙃 like stfu

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YUP. My baby looks identical to my newborn pictures other than she has her daddies chin. MIL says she looks just like my husband and gets her dark hair from some long lost relative…. Not me.

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Oh my goodness yes. Dad and I BOTH have blue eyes, but baby only has daddy's blue eyes. Meanwhile he looks sooooo much like my uncle it's ridiculous.

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Bahaha 🤣 I can definitely relate!

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Nah my son looks like his dada, and his side of the family

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Yup…the toxic crazy ones do…mine have said both kids look like their dad or their side…they look like me like you can’t tell them apart from my baby pictures. And my youngest is a spitting image of his brother lol

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Mine went the opposite. My husbands stepmom said she only saw me in our baby boy until he recently started looking like my husband, but he actually came out looking exactly like my father in law 😒

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Some people on my husbands side aren’t far from saying my son breathes like his dad that’s how bad it is 😭

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my mil can’t say our son looks like my husband, he literally is the male version of me with his daddy’s eyes but everything he does and the way he acts are “just like dad” or “just like grandma” like his feet being ticklish 🥴

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My in-laws say that my LG looks exactly like her cousin - husband’s sisters child. Which winds me up no end. She looks nothing like him aside from being blonde haired and blue eyed.

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Yup they did it to me, kmt my daughter is a perfect mix of me and her dad. Ignore the toxic people.

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i always get told the baby looks like my husband from people, until they see her face next to mine and then they're like "oh she actually looks just like you". when people say she looks like my husband i pull up a baby picture of myself and show them and they literally think it's my daughter because she's my carbon copy. she definitely has his personality and his annoying habits though.

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I feel two ways about this. For one the people likely haven't seen photos of you as a child let alone known you in person as a child. Of course they will identify better with physical features they have seen more of.

However. Mil took great delight in apologising because she 'couldn't see me at ALL' in my daughter. Don't let it upset you. You know the truth.

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I must be the only one cause my ex's family all say our daughter is the spitting image of me and everyone calls her my little twin 😂 but to be fair she does look EXACTLY like me when I was a baby and even now 😂

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My baby isn’t even born yet and according to my MIL baby already looks like her (from the ultrasound). It is very annoying 🙄

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my in laws say she looks like both of us when i don’t see me at all😂 she’s his twin

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My MIL is the opposite. She can't see our little boy without saying he looks just like my Dad. I think it's all part of her being a victim and not really part of our boy's life. She calls our little boy "your grandson" when she speaks to my Mum, rather than "our grandson". It's all very weird.

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This winds me up something chronic. I don’t mind when they say certain things are after her dad but the rest of the time it’s the SIL!! I gave birth to her and have a family too you know 😂 things like her farting a lot (due to lactose intolerance) ‘you’re just like auntie Tori’. It’s like they don’t want her to look like me or my family!!

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that’s the worst…I HATE when my MIL says she looks like my SIL. I just wanna say well I did the deed with your son, not her!! It’s gross when they exclude us moms like that.

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oh I keep reminding them I gave birth to her. It’ll never be enough.

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Yes lol. Looks like dad, all features are dads. Anything positive she does allegedly dad did too. I just ignore them lol

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my family says my daughter looks exactly like MY dad. not even me. she is literally my husbands twin. of course my husbands family says she looks like him, but she DOES, so it doesn’t bother me. maybe eventually she’ll look more like me but right now she doesn’t.

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Yup, my in-laws only see my husband and will call her little Matt. My family will say she looks like both, or looks like herself or that she's too young to know who she looks like yet. It doesn't annoy me until they point out a feature that both me and my daughter share ( like my lips) and say it looks just like my husband's.

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it’s madness lool

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