My baby looks like my MIL

So I do not like my mil she is very self absorbed insensitive and rude. She shows me no respect even in my own house but we are stuck with her as my husband is an only child. My little boy is 2.5 months old and lately his eyes look very much like my MILs eyes. It’s killing me coz it’s the one thing I said during my pregnancy “I hope that they don’t have her eyes” (nothing objectively wrong with her eyes only that I don’t like her… I think my son is very handsome 🩵)
Anyway no point to this post only I needed to get it off my chest to people who would understand my pain!!

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I totally understand this, I’m 12 weeks now and I have this fear as well. My Mil already feels like she owns my husband, me and the unborn baby and I find it very annoying. She decide when my nausea will get better, what symptoms I’ll have and not blah blah blah
If the baby ends up looking like her lol I don’t know what will happen to my entire world, I’ll go nuts seriously 😩
She might just claim it’s her baby and not mine 😤

Baby looks change with time trust me! When I had my LG my in laws insisted that her eyes were green and made me feel like my FiL owned her because of it even tho it kept giving every colour but green lol until now she settled with grey and I'm so happy they're out of this topic. Oh and my Mil was totally convinced she had her nose it turned out my baby's nose was swollen after birth and when the swelling went down she calmed the f down 😂 they totally make you feel as if they contributed in conceiving them!

To be fair so far only me and my mum have noticed the resemblance and we’re not admitting it to anyone!!

My baby girl looks SO much like my MIL, it's scary lol. But she's beautiful in her own right (my baby) so I don't care 🥰

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