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Old Mar 21st, 2012, 16:53 PM   #1
jade1991
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What colour hair and eyes will she have?


I have blue eyes brown hair and very pale skin (my dads ginger) and OH has brown eyes ginger hair.....
Everyone thinks the baby will be blonde..... Is this even possible lol?
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Old Mar 21st, 2012, 16:55 PM   #2
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There is another thread currently running all about this.....
Genes are crazy things. DH and I have brown hair and brown eyes and yet we have 2 blonde haired blue eyed children. Never in a million years did I picture that.
I guess the answer is - noone knows until she is born. X


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Old Mar 21st, 2012, 16:59 PM   #3
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Yep, it's possible if you have recessive blonde on both sides of the family. We're like Maple Leaf - dark hair and dark eyes for me and DH, blonde and blue child. So no guessing here!


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Old Mar 21st, 2012, 17:12 PM   #4
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My parents both have brown hair. Mother has green eyes, father has brown. My sister has brown hair and bright blue eyes, and I'm the oddball with blond hair and blue/green eyes. Who knows!


 
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Old Mar 21st, 2012, 17:27 PM   #5
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There's an iPhone app that has you put in yours+ your OH's eye color, plus his and your parents and siblings...it will give you a probability of eye color (but not hair) of your baby. I've tried it and had fun w/ it. I tested it against friends' babies and it was accurate.

I don't know a ton about genetics and heredity, but it's never as straightforward as we'd like to think. There are epigenetics at play, where certain genes affect the outcome of other genes, etc...so you can't know for certain until baby gets here.


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Old Mar 21st, 2012, 18:06 PM   #6
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I'd be curious to see what you do wind up having. Both my parents have dark brown /black hair, dark brown eyes and olive skin. I have blue eyes and reddish brown hair and fair skin.

I'm guessing m lo will look just like daddy because his 2 sons do. OH has dark brown eyes and hair and also dark skin ( italian) and my blue eyes seem to have been a fluke lol


 
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Old Mar 21st, 2012, 18:42 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Maple Leaf View Post
Genes are crazy things. DH and I have brown hair and brown eyes and yet we have 2 blonde haired blue eyed children. Never in a million years did I picture that.
I guess the answer is - noone knows until she is born. X
Gotta love recessive genes... I am 5 feet, my ex hubby is 5'9 and our daughter is already 5'5 at 13!!! My great aunt was 5'9... so there ya go! LOL


 
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Old Mar 21st, 2012, 18:51 PM   #8
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It's really hard to say it doesnt only go by what u and OH are. Your family generations and generations down the line can have something to do with it. However I think your baby can go either brown or blue eyes and hair color can go red head if you have the gene on both sides. You just never know and the baby's hair color will change from the color it is at birth. Same with the eye color.


 
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