Mixed race babies

swirl25

DH is white (100% Irish on his dad's side, and a couple things, all European, on his mom's. Also, my MIL is Jewish while my FIL is non-practicing Catholic). I am black (both my parents are West Indian). So, DD and this LO are a nice mixture of several things! Even though DD is still young, we are already trying to expose her to all the different aspects of who she is (i.e. while we celebrate Christmas in our house, we also celebrate Hanukkah with my MIL, etc). She also has several friends who are also mixed race (black/white, white/Brazilian, white/Asian), which is really nice for her so she realizes she's not so different.

ETA: I have never experienced the "So, are you the nanny?" question that some parents of a biracial child have gotten, fortunately. I think I would lose it! DD is clearly mixed -- you can look at her now and see that she's not white, but she's clearly not 100% black either. I think she's a nice mix of me and DH so people realize she is ours, even when we are each alone with her. But when DD was a baby, she was extremely fair skinned with very straight hair till she was about 1. I did get the "Oh, is she yours?" question then several times, but I politely said she was and that was that. I do have friends who have biracial kids who have gotten some rude questions/comments about whether their kid belongs to them. Sad and frustrating, but this is the world we live in.

aessary03

I'm just a mix of a bunch of German, English and French. My daughter's sperm donor was Hispanic. She ended up blonde hair blue eyed. Genes are weird. My hubby now is half Hispanic so this baby will be a quarter. We'll see what funky things our genes had in store for us this time.

onewayticket

I am half Persian (Iranian) and half white (mom's ancestors came over on the Mayflower).

DH is mostly Irish (think freckles).

Mutts are the best kind!!!

onewayticket

rach10782 said:

I am caucasian and my husband is Korean.  You can see what our first looks like in my pic below....he has my ears and the shape of my face but his eyes, nose and mouth is 100% my husband.  

Happas are the hotest!

lilybeth12

Mh is 75% French Canadian, 25% Ukrainian. He never looked like anyone else in his family until his midteens, was super blonde and blue eyed.  Now he looks like his brother, dad, gpa.  I'm mostly German with some Italian and Hungarian  thrown in for flavoring.  We've joked that we know what dd will start out looking like as we were similar looking babies, but who knows which side she will take after later.

My money's on my side though'  I have 15 cousins on my mom's  side, and all but 2 strongly (like clones) take after my mom's siblings.  

Tauristar

I am black, DH is white with a german immigrant mother. He and SIL are both bright blonde haired with blue eyes just like MIL. I'm sure MIL will teach him phrases in German, he'll call them Oma and Opa. Not to mention, he's already got a german soccer jersey. We will continue to travel there every few years. I think knowing both sides of his family and heritage will be very important. 

Aside from that, I do wonder what he'll look like. I'm hoping for my nose and DH's chin. 

ladameperdue

So excited already to see all these gorgeous babies!!!
Unless DH or I have some interesting recessive genes somewhere, little girl will be pasty and blue eyed with blonde hair which will fade to a very light brown as she ages. We look really similar. At our wedding, people said it was creepy that all four of our parents looked like siblings. (I swear they're not).

Missykisses85

My dh is black im white he doesnt think its possible for us to have a baby with fair skin like mine.... I kind of hope she does with his big brown eyes

ScarlettV

I missed this whole big thread

I am white, DH is Asian. We are in a debate as to whether lo will look more asian or more ambiguous. I joke that people are going to ask me where I adopted from if they see me out alone with LO.

Tauristar

Cashingn2 said:

Tauristar said:

I am black, DH is white with a german immigrant mother. He and SIL are both bright blonde haired with blue eyes just like MIL. I'm sure MIL will teach him phrases in German, he'll call them Oma and Opa. Not to mention, he's already got a german soccer jersey. We will continue to travel there every few years. I think knowing both sides of his family and heritage will be very important. 

Aside from that, I do wonder what he'll look like. I'm hoping for my nose and DH's chin. 

If they ever make you mad, just say, "Du bist eine Hexe." My Oma would never teach me the word for bitch but though witch was an appropriate substitute. I do now know the word lol

If they ever, Ha! When MIL is on a roll, there aren't enough languages to express the bitchiness! LOL

Tori7211

I'm 100% Hispanic with dark skin. My hubs is Irish and German. So this should be interesting

Ktrue85

mightymousy said:

Awww there's going to be some super cute babies born in 2-3 months It was fun reading about everyone's excitement to see how the mix will manifest itself appearance wise. My SO and I are both pasty white with dark brown hair and light eyes (mine blue, his blue-green) and our families are all similar so we're not likely to be in for any surprises in the baby looks department lol.

This is how I feel, too. H and I both have olive skin tones (I'm more pale than he is) and he has dirty blonde/light brown hair with green eyes. I am mostly Italian and have dark brown hair, but I do have green eyes, too. We are expecting a little brown haired, green eyed baby, but only time will tell!

Btw... I want ALL THE MIXED BABIESSS!!!11!! So excited to see them all.

Marchmellow2

Lyzza350 said:

Marchmellow2 said:

DH: 50% black 25% Spanish 25% white

Me: 50% Israeli (Egyptian decent) 50% Norwegian (blonde/blue)

We are all gonna have some cute babies!!

Wow! Love this mix. I feel like your baby is going to be incredibly beautiful!

Thank you! It should be interesting...I can't wait to meet my LO!!

RI8340361

Cashingn2 said:

Missykisses85 said:

My dh is black im white he doesnt think its possible for us to have a baby with fair skin like mine.... I kind of hope she does with his big brown eyes

I have two friends that are black that have a blonde haired, light eyed daughter. I do think both of the parents have some caucasian mixed in there a few generations back and that's how it happened. The daughter looks just like her father apart from the skin tone and hair color.

Various genetic testing companies estimate African-Americans have 19%-29% percent European ancestry.  https://www.theroot.com/views/exactly-how-black-black-america?

margaerytyrell

All I know is I am white. Super white

DH is Vietnamese. So I like to think we'll have some cute kids.

margaerytyrell

@ScarlettV
I'm white too and DH is Vietnamese. He has a ton of family and it's weird. His sister's kids (with a white guy) have hazel eyes and light brown hair. His cousins kids (with a white guy) look straight up Asian.
But, I worked with a girl who was white with a Vietnamese husband and she got stopped at Costco and was asked if her daughter was adopted. I am not looking forward to that.

samiaf

I am part Egyptian.  I also have adopted twins that are 1/2 Liberian and 1/2 Lebanese.  

kbell27

My fiancee is 100% Dominican and I am 100% Black American. Can't wait to see what this little beauty is gonna look like. 

Missykisses85

RI8340361 said:

Cashingn2 said:

Missykisses85 said:

My dh is black im white he doesnt think its possible for us to have a baby with fair skin like mine.... I kind of hope she does with his big brown eyes

I have two friends that are black that have a blonde haired, light eyed daughter. I do think both of the parents have some caucasian mixed in there a few generations back and that's how it happened. The daughter looks just like her father apart from the skin tone and hair color.

Various genetic testing companies estimate African-Americans have 19%-29% percent European ancestry.  https://www.theroot.com/views/exactly-how-black-black-america?

What makes his thought process funny is the fact that his grandma was white
Dunno y he thinks our baby girl will b dark but she could i guess

bwade007

I am white (some German, some Irish).  DH is 50% Korean, 50% white (some Irish, not sure what else).  Baby will be 100% adorable.    

Krilolo

superspecialsnowflake said:

DH is 50% Polish, 50% Irish.  I'm 50% German, 50% "British Mix" (lol, some blend of Welsh/Scottish). 

Thus, we will have a white child with a good work ethic, fiery temper, and great sense of humor. 

In all seriousness though, and I don't mean to threadjack, I'm a little sad to think of the cultural degradation (if that's even the right word) that comes with our "Melting Pot" family.  I grew up with a strong German influence in my family.  I also grew up in one of the strongest "German" cities in America (Milwaukee) and it was something I really identified with. It led me to study German in middle, high school and college, as well as minor in German at my university.  The Welsh side of me is less identified with, except for the pride my family has in being among the many Welsh coal miners in PA when they first arrived in the States.  I also love Corgis, but I would love them regardless (haha...).

I'm not sure my LO will have that same connection with her various cultural heritage.  I'm not bummed about our cultural melting pot - that's one of the very best things about America.  But I am a little concerned about what to teach her about all her various heritages.  It's easy to do when you have just two main ethnic bloodlines.  When you start getting into four or more, it becomes less of a point of interest, I think. 

Sorry... off the soapbox I go...

Hey! I grew up in Brookfield!

Lpegirl2013

My baby girl will be half white half black

jokimoto

I'm a huge mix of european descent, mainly German, Polish and Sicilian. LO's father 100% Japanese.  His siblings married non-Japanese, but their partners have very similar traits, dark hair, dark eyes, darker skin, all their kids look Japanese, with slightly lighter skin.  I'm the only blond haired, blue eyed one.  His mom is very excited to see if LO will look more like me than him.  I too hope she has my eyes with the dark hair, but it may just be wishful thinking.  

Since I will be co-parenting I worry LO not knowing enough about her Japanese side.  I also afraid of people thinking she's not mine if she looks very asian.  Although I'm not sure at what time I would even be asked that question.  I have chosen to not change my last, so we will both have a very Japanese last name, which may benefit me, idk.  As with everything else I guess it's a wait and see.  I'm really excited to see what everyone's babies look like, aside from super cute, in the long run.  Genetics can be weird.  

kamilasmommy

i am 100 perfect Hispanic & my babygirls dad is samoan and black .. So we are having a little Spanish/island baby lol ..

kamilasmommy

& i meant percent not perfect lol im using T9 sorry !!!

ScarlettV

abc123babies said:

@ScarlettV
I'm white too and DH is Vietnamese. He has a ton of family and it's weird. His sister's kids (with a white guy) have hazel eyes and light brown hair. His cousins kids (with a white guy) look straight up Asian.
But, I worked with a girl who was white with a Vietnamese husband and she got stopped at Costco and was asked if her daughter was adopted. I am not looking forward to that.

@Abc123babies : My DH is Vietnamese as well there are no other mixed kiddies in his family that I know of, so we have no idea what to expect. I've seen some kids with white/viet parents that had the light eyes/hair like you described, but mom was blonde. My hair is dark brown - and I'm super white as well. We will have to post pics

Wow about the Cosco thing. Even though I know its coming, it still amazes me that people actually say it!

ScarlettV

M&H2011 said:

ScarlettV said:

I missed this whole big thread

I am white, DH is Asian. We are in a debate as to whether lo will look more asian or more ambiguous. I joke that people are going to ask me where I adopted from if they see me out alone with LO.

I'm sure my parents wondered the same thing (Korean mother and German/English father).  My siblings and I all turned out so random.  I look exactly 50/50, my brother looks more Spanish looking (with really pretty curly hair), and my sister looks completely white.  You wouldn't guess for a second my sister was part Asian.  The funny thing is everyone says we look like twins...all of our features are similar except my eyes are more almond shaped.  Not that my personal story helps you in any way.  Just the mix a the 50/50 level can vary greatly. 

Lol, crazy genetics are an interesting thing. I'm sure out kids will probably be a grab bag. DH is sometimes mistaken for being Hispanic; I feel like he can be a little more racially ambiguous which might make our kids look a bit that way as well after being mixed with my past white genes. But he is convinced they will be very Asian looking. And who knows, all the kids will probably look totally different!

azmama20

I'm white (German, Danish, Norwegian, and a bit of Dutch and English). DH is half Irish/Scottish/Sicilian and half Chinese/Filipino/Hawaiian. Our kid is going to be a mutt, basically.

lp0

DH and I are both Italian descent. We definitely didn't get the darker Mediterranean features though. We are both extremely pasty white, he has green eyes and I have blue.

DS has brownish- blondish hair and bright blue eyes. Go figure lol!

northport6

Maybe this is the only place I'll ever be able to say this, and maybe it's good it comes at the end of this thread, because I'm not exactly talking mixed races here, BUT: I'm adopted, right?  So I have no idea what's on either side of my genealogy -- none at all.  You've all seen my HDBD photos.  I'm the only person I know who looks like me.  This little person is going to theoretically look like me, too (Which is awesome!  My first blood relative!) -- but there's genetic soup that could come out, who knows?  DH is Ashkenazic Jew on both sides, Russian/Lithuanian on the one side, Polish on the other.  But, here's the weird thing -- he tans DARK.  Like, Sephardi dark.  We have no idea what to expect at all.

notthecheat

I have almost all UK background, DH is 1/2 Italian 1/2 Polish. Another boring white American mutt here. But hopefully a cute one!

notthecheat

superspecialsnowflake said:

DH is 50% Polish, 50% Irish.  I'm 50% German, 50% "British Mix" (lol, some blend of Welsh/Scottish). 

Thus, we will have a white child with a good work ethic, fiery temper, and great sense of humor. 

In all seriousness though, and I don't mean to threadjack, I'm a little sad to think of the cultural degradation (if that's even the right word) that comes with our "Melting Pot" family.  I grew up with a strong German influence in my family.  I also grew up in one of the strongest "German" cities in America (Milwaukee) and it was something I really identified with. It led me to study German in middle, high school and college, as well as minor in German at my university.  The Welsh side of me is less identified with, except for the pride my family has in being among the many Welsh coal miners in PA when they first arrived in the States.  I also love Corgis, but I would love them regardless (haha...).

I'm not sure my LO will have that same connection with her various cultural heritage.  I'm not bummed about our cultural melting pot - that's one of the very best things about America.  But I am a little concerned about what to teach her about all her various heritages.  It's easy to do when you have just two main ethnic bloodlines.  When you start getting into four or more, it becomes less of a point of interest, I think. 

Sorry... off the soapbox I go...

I grew up with this. I am mostly Scots-Irish with some English and Welsh thrown in, and some other unknown bits. My ancestors on my dads side came to America in the 1600s and my moms side has no idea. Whenever the subject of heritage came up, I always felt so lost. All my friends had cultural traditions passed down from their foreign ancestors, but I feel like my family has been in America so long, we really have nothing. Even DH has fond memories of his Italian and Polish family traditions. I felt like everyone else got to be proud of their heritage whereas I was a mixed bag with no familial/cultural ties, just a WASP, if you will. Granted, it never severely impacted my life, just something I always felt a little lost or disappointed about. I have no idea how to remedy this for my children.

lashagu

I'm 100% Hispanic and DH is American/Irish mix, can't wait to see how DD will come out 8->

notkateanymore

I'm 50% Italian, 2nd member of my dad's family to be born here, 25% Irish and 25% Scottish. I have dark hair, blue eyes and tan well I'm the summer but am ghostly pale in the winter. DH is really white...Irish, English, Scottish w/ white blond hair when he was born. Blue eyes and blond brown hair now. DD tans like me, but has gorg brown hair with natural blond highlights that people actually ask if we put in there. Other than that, she looks like DH. 

:::took the picture out in case people are creepy:::

notkateanymore

sventurarn said:

DH is 50% Polish, 50% Irish.  I'm 50% German, 50% "British Mix" (lol, some blend of Welsh/Scottish). 

Thus, we will have a white child with a good work ethic, fiery temper, and great sense of humor. 

In all seriousness though, and I don't mean to threadjack, I'm a little sad to think of the cultural degradation (if that's even the right word) that comes with our "Melting Pot" family.  I grew up with a strong German influence in my family.  I also grew up in one of the strongest "German" cities in America (Milwaukee) and it was something I really identified with. It led me to study German in middle, high school and college, as well as minor in German at my university.  The Welsh side of me is less identified with, except for the pride my family has in being among the many Welsh coal miners in PA when they first arrived in the States.  I also love Corgis, but I would love them regardless (haha...).

I'm not sure my LO will have that same connection with her various cultural heritage.  I'm not bummed about our cultural melting pot - that's one of the very best things about America.  But I am a little concerned about what to teach her about all her various heritages.  It's easy to do when you have just two main ethnic bloodlines.  When you start getting into four or more, it becomes less of a point of interest, I think. 

Sorry... off the soapbox I go...

I grew up with this. I am mostly Scots-Irish with some English and Welsh thrown in, and some other unknown bits. My ancestors on my dads side came to America in the 1600s and my moms side has no idea. Whenever the subject of heritage came up, I always felt so lost. All my friends had cultural traditions passed down from their foreign ancestors, but I feel like my family has been in America so long, we really have nothing. Even DH has fond memories of his Italian and Polish family traditions. I felt like everyone else got to be proud of their heritage whereas I was a mixed bag with no familial/cultural ties, just a WASP, if you will. Granted, it never severely impacted my life, just something I always felt a little lost or disappointed about. I have no idea how to remedy this for my children.

I didn't grow up with the Italian side of myself...my parents divorced when I was very young and my father was not present in my life...so I had to make that part of me part of my life as an adult. It's actually fun to find your own traditions. Go for it!

bishesbcrazy

sventurarn said:

DH is 50% Polish, 50% Irish.  I'm 50% German, 50% "British Mix" (lol, some blend of Welsh/Scottish). 

Thus, we will have a white child with a good work ethic, fiery temper, and great sense of humor. 

In all seriousness though, and I don't mean to threadjack, I'm a little sad to think of the cultural degradation (if that's even the right word) that comes with our "Melting Pot" family.  I grew up with a strong German influence in my family.  I also grew up in one of the strongest "German" cities in America (Milwaukee) and it was something I really identified with. It led me to study German in middle, high school and college, as well as minor in German at my university.  The Welsh side of me is less identified with, except for the pride my family has in being among the many Welsh coal miners in PA when they first arrived in the States.  I also love Corgis, but I would love them regardless (haha...).

I'm not sure my LO will have that same connection with her various cultural heritage.  I'm not bummed about our cultural melting pot - that's one of the very best things about America.  But I am a little concerned about what to teach her about all her various heritages.  It's easy to do when you have just two main ethnic bloodlines.  When you start getting into four or more, it becomes less of a point of interest, I think. 

Sorry... off the soapbox I go...

I grew up with this. I am mostly Scots-Irish with some English and Welsh thrown in, and some other unknown bits. My ancestors on my dads side came to America in the 1600s and my moms side has no idea. Whenever the subject of heritage came up, I always felt so lost. All my friends had cultural traditions passed down from their foreign ancestors, but I feel like my family has been in America so long, we really have nothing. Even DH has fond memories of his Italian and Polish family traditions. I felt like everyone else got to be proud of their heritage whereas I was a mixed bag with no familial/cultural ties, just a WASP, if you will. Granted, it never severely impacted my life, just something I always felt a little lost or disappointed about. I have no idea how to remedy this for my children.

Welcome to the world of Black Americans (not making this a pissing contest...just sayin).  I remember in the 8th grade, my history teacher wanted us to draw the country where our ancestors came from; I was a smart ass and didn't do it bc I didn't know what "country".  She told me to draw Africa...LOL I told her I wasn't going to do that either bc the other kids didn't have to draw Europe or Asia, etc. She was pretty pissed at me, I didn't care, I stood my ground and my parents were 100% behind me.

bishesbcrazy

KateMW said:

I'm 50% Italian, 2nd member of my dad's family to be born here, 25% Irish and 25% Scottish. I have dark hair, blue eyes and tan well I'm the summer but am ghostly pale in the winter. DH is really white...Irish, English, Scottish w/ white blond hair when he was born. Blue eyes and blond brown hair now. DD tans like me, but has gorg brown hair with natural blond highlights that people actually ask if we put in there. Other than that, she looks like DH.

Your DD is too cute.

notkateanymore

Aww thanks! She's a little older now, but that is a good hair pic! So is yours!

frankierokx

@KateMW

Your DD is just beautiful!