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I have the exact same think with my two girlie's...and its awful! I just correct people now and say well its 50/50 genetics xx
I have boys so don't feel it to the same level but I'm blonde and kept waiting for my first to go blonde which hasn't happened and now looks like my second won't either. It makes sense that we want it to be obvious that they are ours as they are so precious to us, probably more keenly felt in the first year by us as mums compared to dad's. Interestingly I have been told (though havent a clue how true it is) that babies often look more like their Dad for evolutionary reasons... Basically so they know not to kill them off like lions etc do.
Our daughter looks more like her dad than me and we get comments a lot too but I just think more positively now that I'm the one who got to carry her, feel her kick, feel her grow, breastfeed her etc and that's worth much more than who she looks like. Hope that helps x
I don't have a girl but I get it and I know so many people who have felt the same, especially with girls. I've come to realise most babies (particularly girls) look just like their dad as tiny babies but as they get older they look more and more like mum 🙂
Thankyou all so much. Feel better reading all your comments!
@Rhiannon this is exactly it! Thank you for helping me verbalise what I meant- I think I almost feel like it diminishes my connection with her (which I know it doesn’t) but my irrational brain has just been worn down by it
@Amber Oh bless you! It’s horrible isn’t it. It bothers me way way more than it should which is why I came here to talk it out and rant. Poor innocent bystanders think they are making a offhand comment but have actually pissed me off for the rest of the day 😂 Xx
@Rachel, 30 100%. My rational brain knows this for sure ❤️❤️ my irrational brain gets pissed off everytime someone tells me she looks like dad 😂
My daughter is the double of her dad and I love it because it reminds me that I made her with the man I adore. I have the opposite though because I love the fact that she looks like her dad I get pissed off when people say they can see me in her. Only advice I have is to remember that babies change as they get older so your little one may look like their dad now but could look a lot more like you as they get older
I felt this way with my first child, my son it was always "he looks like dad" like ok but like he has my blue eyes. I carried him for 9 months and you wanna go on and on about how he looks so much like his Dad. I mean my daughter looks like her Dad to but only in certain ways. I just brush it off now. I think some of us feel the way you do because we have that mind set of we grew this beautiful baby and went through a traumatic experience and people wanna talk about how they look like Dad. Like obviously our babies are gonna look like their Dad but as a new Mam I don't think we wanna hear it out loud 😂