A jealous mother has sought help online and admitted feeling upset and annoyed by the fact that her daughter doesn’t look like her.
As the anonymous mom in question expressed, everyone, including her own family, keeps on telling her how her 7-week-old baby girl is the spitting image of her father.
According to the mum, she is now jealous of her partner because she wants her daughter to look like her rather than a 40-year-old man.
“Hi I’m really annoyed that I’m so annoyed about this but my first child looks just like my partner,” the mother wrote on Mumsnet.
“Firstly I don’t want my daughter to look like a 40-year-old man. Secondly, am I being unreasonable, but I feel really jealous and upset that she doesn’t look like me.
“I feel like I have put so much time and effort into making her and now spend 90% of my time looking after her and I just don’t see any of myself in her appearance and literally all of him.”
She added: “To make things worse my partner is not really enjoying being a new dad and I’m trying to help him adjust but I don’t even feel he really likes her yet. It all seems very unfair.”
As the mother insisted, she feels grateful that her firstborn is healthy but can’t help feeling down about the situation because people, including her family, keep saying that the baby girl is the spitting image of her father.
After asking other parents for advice, the newly-found mom was showered with responses whereas some people urged her to get over herself and accept her daughter as she is while others suggested they understood where she’s coming from.
“You’re being exceedingly irrational. Just enjoy her,” someone wrote.
“Presumably you were attracted to this man to have a baby with him – so how bad can this be? What did you expect – a mini me?” another one said.
One person suggested: “You’re being incredibly unreasonable but becoming a parent is tough and we all end up with weird things to worry and stress about.”
In the mother’s defense, however, some parents said it was rude of other people to tell the new mom that her daughter didn’t look like her.
“I get it. I carried mine with difficulty, squeezed them out and damaged myself beyond repair and all people could say when they saw them was they looked like their dad. Infuriating in those first few weeks. It’ll pass though,” one user wrote.
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