Topic Posted by: lucindawalsh
Date Posted: Fri Oct 30 17:31:58 2009
Additional Comments:
Am I the only person who doesn't think newborns "look" like anyone in particular? I have one daughter, and when she was two or three days old, she looked like herself, period. Newborns often are born with dark hair that falls out and changes to lighter hair, their eye color changes, etc.
How could the baby look 'just like Brad' except in Katie's mind? Would it be any easier to bond if the baby were a girl?
Posted by: Janie Date posted: Sat Oct 31 15:35:18 2009
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Sometimes the looks skip a generation. Both of my kids, (boy and a girl) look very much like their father's side of the family. However, my daughter's daugher looks very much like me. People often comment on it and many think that my grandaughter is my own daugher.
I do think it takes some time for the looks to come out. Most babies often do look pretty much alike in the first few days or months. This coming from a nurse who once worked in Labor and Delivery. Suellen what do you think as an OB nurse?
Posted by: NOLA Date posted: Sat Oct 31 12:33:44 2009
Message: Oh man, it was unbelievable how my newborn daughter looked EXACTLY like my husband (and his mother!). I mean, there was NO doubt that she was his kid. They put all the same ID bracelets on the 3 of us, and we joked with the nurses that my husband had "picture ID" since they looked so much alike. I remember thinking "you gotta be kidding me.....I go thru pregnancy and labor, and the child looks nothing like me!" LOL
Posted by: Mrs. B. Harris Date posted: Sat Oct 31 11:41:54 2009
Message: My niece's son looked exactly like her from the day he was born. He's 2-1/2 now and he still looks exactly like her. He's even got her hands and feet. That being said, he's twice as big as she was and wears a 5T now. This kid is huge.
Posted by: Suellen Date posted: Fri Oct 30 20:28:27 2009
Message: My relatives said that my first born looked like/resembled his grandpa-definitely not my side of the family. My husband said at least the baby had 2 ears and 2 eyes-just like me! lol BTW he still looks like my husband's side of the family at age 45. He did receive the baldness gene from my side of the family.
Posted by: molly Date posted: Fri Oct 30 19:36:45 2009
Message: My Mother-in-law always told me my boys looked "just like Grandpa's brother Norm"...well they did cause Uncle Norm was bald and had a red face....fortunately they all changed into good looking boys...now men.
Posted by: dolphina Date posted: Fri Oct 30 18:28:36 2009
Message: I've found that newborn babies do often look very much like one parent, but that their appearance can change drastically. My own daughter was the spitting image of her father when she was born and until she was nine or ten. Then she started looking more and more like me. My granddaughter was also the spitting image of her father at birth, but she started to look more like her mother before she was even a year old. Now all three of us look exactly like each other, LOL.
Posted by: Tosca Date posted: Fri Oct 30 18:22:14 2009
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While that may be true to some degree, there are some features that can look very much like a particular parent....a cleft chin, protruding ears, a furrowed brow, full lips. So I certainly believe that Brad and Katie's baby could resemble Brad.
All my kids pretty much looked like each other and not either me or my husband. But both of us have pretty unremarkable faces. My grandson looked like his father from the second he was born and they look like clones, 30 years apart. It's scary!
Posted by: pita Date posted: Fri Oct 30 17:51:44 2009
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When my sister's daughter was born she looked EXACTLY like her father. It was uncanny. How a newborn female infant could look exactly like a 40 year old man is a mystery to me, but she did. Exactly. Everyone commented on it; it was startling.
She's 16 now and she is still very obviously his child - she's very pretty and feminine, but her features are exactly like his. She has my hair though :) -- my poor sister, she did all the work and you'd never think she had anything to do with it.
