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It use to bother me but whatever, its true....both kids favor DH!

However DD does have my hazel eyes and my curly hair so she is starting to look more like me

My LO looked just like DH when she was a newborn; but there are some very cool articles/studies about the biological reasons why newborn babies (humans and other animals) tend to favor the father, so I thought it was kind of neat.

LO's looks have changed so much; now everyone says she is my twin!!

It totally bothered me early on. I think part of it was it all came from DH's side of the family, and my family wasn't around to say "oh he has our nose!" or anything like that. I do think it is a PP hormone thing.

It used to drive me absolutely crazy, because usually it came from DH's family. But as she's gotten older (she's almost 2) her features have changed quite a bit and she looks more like my side of the family than DH. DH's family still says that she looks so much like him, but I just ignore them now

I always respond with "it's a good thing he's gorgeous!"
It bugs me, but she does favor him and I love how he looks. I can see bits of me more and more these days, especially when looking at my baby pictures.

It didn't really bother me. As they grow up I can tell that they are a good mix of both of us.

I can't tell, but everyone and their mom says DS looks like his daddy, but with my eyes. Then there's the random here and there that he looks like me. Who knows!

My aunt and uncle did tell me aside one day that maybe he looks like his daddy because both of their faces are round and they're both chubby. So maybe when he lengthens out and is more mature, he'll look more like me. hahahahahahaahahahaha

I just have to agree- she looks so much like Dh, especially when he was a baby. A few kind people have said she looks like me and I say thank you, since she's gorgeous

LO sin't here, yet, so this isn't happening, yet, but I know that if LO does come out looking like him, and people say it all the time, DH will be insanely proud, which would probably make me feel pretty happy for him.

DS is only mine and looks like me, so I feel like I *have* my mini-me and I'm excited for DH to have his.

I get this comment more than any other comment about their looks. "They're mini-[DH]s" "They look just like [DH]." "They're all [DH]" For a while it drove me crazy, especially because they do have some of my features: definitely have my nose, dimple, and likely, my eye color in the end.

Now, I just laugh and say, "I'm the first woman in history that's needed a maternity test." It still bugs sometimes, but whatevs.

She's a carbon copy of my husband but got her darker skin from me.

@.twist.: yeah, exactly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/health/22real.html?_r=0

"The researchers took head shots of a group of people and morphed them with photos of baby faces without the subjects' knowledge.
When they presented the subjects with the faces, the men were more likely to indicate they would adopt or spend time with the babies, male and female, who had more of their facial characteristics.
The women in the study, however, showed no preference for children with their features."

It looks like some other subsequent tests have failed, but I know with cats (where one litter can have more than one father), you really have to watch the male/father around the mixed litter because they will sometimes kill the kittens that do not look like them/have their same coloring. When my grandma was little, her job was keeping the tom cats away from the barn kitten just for this reason! :'(

I agree with them. When he was a newborn, he looked exactly like my husband did in his baby photos.

I have one photo of them when my son is about 7 months old and he and my husband have the same expression and the same red cheeks.

It didn't bother me because it was true. She was 110% all my husband for a few months. Okay, she had my eye color but..

Now she looks like me! Muhahaha ha.

It used to irritate me, but I couldn't really disagree because sadly, for us, it's 100% true! LO is the carbon copy of DH. I'm more used to it now, and I will just jokingly roll my eyes and say "please don't remind me!"

For whatever reason, it really really really irked me when MIL or BIL commented how "you can really see all our features in B." For some reason it really annoyed me ( PP hormones I'll go with. ) However, B is 100% all me. I've never had anyone say she looks like anyone other than 100% me aside from those two. I think my PP rage towards my MIL is starting to subside so maybe it won't bother me if she says it again.

I agree with them!

I agree and feel proud because I think DH is a good looking guy!

My 3 brothers and I all look like my dad. My mom always jokes that she just dropped us off. We think it's funny when people say that she and I look alike.

Most people say that DS is the perfect blend of DH and me. However it leans towards me since he has my eyes and those are more prominent.

I also read something about how babies generally look like the father when they are first born so that the father will know that it is there baby. There's a lot more to that but I won't bore you.