Disco Derail! - TTCAL/PAL Discussion and Support!

[jenny25]

Awww she sounds like a fab little girl I really hope we have a girl I'm getting my tubes tied after this x

 

[prgirl_cesca]

Jaymes I'm sorry I hope it stops quickly and isn't anything serious

In terms of eyes, I have dark dark brown eyes (my parents both have hazel eyes) and my husband has some weird combination of green, blue and grey and they change colour depending on his mood. For the most part i'd say Luca has green eyes, but like his daddy they change colour a lot. They can look quite blue somedays, grey when he's tired or poorly but they look very dark in photos so people think they're brown! I hope they stay like my husband's as I love hubby's eyes and it is quite an attractive quality to me so hopefully the ladies will love Luca's eyes too!

 

[prgirl_cesca]

ETA: Hello hubby's eyes :faint:

 

[heart tree]

Your hubby is pretty! Gorgeous eyes! I can't imagine the ladies won't fall for Luca's eyes too!!

 

[NatoPMT]

Nato, can you explain this to me. I have blue eyes. My mother has blue eyes, my father has brown eyes. I don't have any other full blooded siblings. But my brother (who has the same mother as me) has blue eyes and his father, the Spaniard, had very dark brown eyes. How did my mother's blue eyes trump both of her partner's brown ones to give both of her children blue eyes?

Tim has green eyes. His mother has brown and father has blue. One of his brother's has brown and one has hazel. How does that happen? Again, I'm confused how Tim didn't get brown.

You'll probably explain it to me and I still won't understand! If you are sick of giving genetics classes, feel free to ignore the question.

Girls, is this what I have to look forward to? Yesterday I made granola. I put it in the oven. I set the timer. I washed some dishes and saw that the timer was about to go off in a minute. Normal people would have waited. Not me, in that small time frame of a minute, I walked out of the kitchen and got in the shower. I took a nice long shower. Shaved my legs and everything. I realized the granola was still cooking after I was done. Sure enough, the timer was beeping like mad! Pregnancy brain? Good god! What an idiot!

I dont mind, its no problem

Same as Bleu and Sparkly

The very simple version is this

Your mum has 2 blue eyed genes
The father has 1 dominant dark brown eyed gene, and 1 recessive blue eyed gene which doesnt show physically, but is there albeit recessively. The father has brown eyes cos the brown eye gene is dominant

Your brother has 1 blue eyed gene from your mum, + the recessive blue gene from his dad = 2 x blue eyed genes which present a blue eyes physically.

his parents have the following genes:

Dad: Brown eyes
gene 1 = Brown
gene 2 = blue

Mum: blue eyes
gene 1 = blue
gene 2 = blue

Mix the above genetics together and the possible combinations of children are:

1) Brown blue (brown eyes)
2) Brown blue (brown eyes)
3) blue blue (blue eyes)
4) blue blue (blue eyes)

So those parents have a 50% chance of having a brown eyed baby, and a 50% chance of having a blue eyed baby

Tims family: theres a yellow allele involved because of the green and the hazel eyes, which makes it much more complicated. It sounds like Tim has inherited a recessive green allele from his mum and a blue one allele from his dad, and green is dominant to blue so presents as green eyes. This is where the layers come in as there are more than 2 simple genes at play in both green and hazel eyes. His mum must have more complicated genetics as his fathers are simple blue genetics. His mum has several layers - at least 3, which present in her children as dominant over their fathers, but recessive to their mothers physical brown (hence she has brown) Hazel genetics arent fully understood by geneticists let alone by 1st year undergraduate drop outs like me, but thats as far as i get it. Hazel and grey eyes are actually impossible. Which is where my baby brain implodes

pregnancy brain and genetics dont mix either

ps my green eyes are from my mum, her eyes are brown, but recently turned green. Which i think its a physical rather than genetic issue.

 

[NatoPMT]

Cor cesca Rich is a hottie!!!

im just reading about how blue eyed parents can have a brown eyed child. the same gene is responsible for both (strong) brown and (weak) blue eyes, but if 2 strong blues meet, they strengthen to effectively make a brown.

or somert.

these are mine, you can see some brown in them too. excuse the eyebags.

 

[hoping:)]

Nato- I sure hope her eyes lighten up because going through all the gene scenarios is making my head spin But if your mom has Brown eyes they could have been passed down to Eloise since it only takes one dominant gene.

Thanks for the biology refresher! I always enjoyed this subjecy

Hearty- hilarious I thought my pregnancy brain would go away after I had Penny but now I have mommy brain and constanly have those kind of moments.

Jenny- I hope you get your girl!!!

Cesca- Your hubby's eyes are beautiful! My DH's eyes also change colors depending on the weather, his mood or what he is wearing. They can go from bright azure to gray, to greenish. I love it and hoped Penny would get his eyes but she is a brown eyed girl like me. Your little Luca is going to be a heart breaker with those gorgeous eyes!

 

[NatoPMT]

Awww she sounds like a fab little girl I really hope we have a girl I'm getting my tubes tied after this x

fingers crossed for team pink!

pink genes and blue genes have an equal chance of having a pink baby or a blue baby

oh yes.

 

[NatoPMT]

actually Jen, i lied. I think theres more boybys born than girlbys. but i read the other day that recessions increase the number of girls born.

Nato- I sure hope her eyes lighten up because going through all the gene scenarios is making my head spin But if your mom has Brown eyes they could have been passed down to Eloise since it only takes one dominant gene.

Hoping, if i had mums brown gene, id have brown eyes

and i dont. but theres some brown in there. confused, you will be after this next episode of Genetics

 

[Jaymes]

OK, I had another ultrasound. The Dr explained that anytime you have bleeding you can have cramps... By the time I got there it was all brown blood and she checked and said it looked like there was loads of brown, but no more red. Baby's heart was still flickering away. PHEW! Another subchorionic hematoma, she doesn't think it'll knock the baby out. I am on pelvic rest and am supposed to be taking it easy, but the kiddos got off school early due to tornado and flood warnings... I may try to nap with Lexi in a few.

 

[jenny25]

Jaymes I was diagnosed with that and it had gone by my 9 week scan Hun xxx


Who knows nato I'm praying for girlie but at the end of the day I'd be happy with anything xxx

 

[NatoPMT]

OK, I had another ultrasound. The Dr explained that anytime you have bleeding you can have cramps... By the time I got there it was all brown blood and she checked and said it looked like there was loads of brown, but no more red. Baby's heart was still flickering away. PHEW! Another subchorionic hematoma, she doesn't think it'll knock the baby out. I am on pelvic rest and am supposed to be taking it easy, but the kiddos got off school early due to tornado and flood warnings... I may try to nap with Lexi in a few.

what a relief - that beanby is another fighter! Is it worth asking for clexane until the hematoma has bled out (or whatever they do?)

great she doesn't think its pregnancy-threatening, take it bloody easy, everything rest as well as pelvic rest i say

Jen: pink vibes your way <concentrates>

 

[Jaymes]

I had it with the last 2. The dr suspects the bleed knocked the baby out (the one I lost) and I had blood but not fresh with Lexi. (Not sure if I'm remembering correctly.) I did also have bleeding with my first.
I wish I weren't so pessimismtic and paranoid.

 

[Round2]

Jaymes, I'm happy to hear everything is okay. I know you're still worried, but it's reasurring to hear the doc say the hematoma was not near the baby. One day at a time. I have the paranoia too, I hate it.

Love all the eye pics! I'll have to find some good ones.

Vicky, thanks for the explanation of your SPD symptoms. They sound very similar to mine. Today my butt, back and legs hurt. I couldn't fall asleep last night because the pain was so bad. Then, once I did fall asleep, my refulx got so bad it woke me up. I look/feel lke I've been run over by a truck.

I still may take a trip to the ER this weekend. I hate having this constant worry.

Errr....T - minus 8 days till I'm on a warm sunny beach.

 

[vickyd]

After reading all your posts all im left with is granola...and how much id love some home made granola RIGHT NOW!

Hearty the other day i wanted to brew some greek coffee. This is done by boiling water in this pot like thing on the stove and adding coffee ect. I filled a mug with water and placed it on the burner...till it cracked. The whole time I was standing over watching the water boil. Yes this is the shhit you have to look forward to.

Jamye glad to hear all is ok with bubba!

Sparkly hope the tablets do their job hun...Thinking of you sweetie...

granola

Nothing new to report on my end, nursery saga continues till tomorrow.

granola

 

[hoping:)]

Awesome Jaymes I'm glad your LO is a fighter Try to take it easy

Nato- true about your being brown eyed if your mom was but what if your dad had two recessive genes and gave your one and your mom was heterozygous for brown and passed you a ressive gene as well?

Round- I'm so jealous... it looks like a blizzard is coming to Colorado. Have fun and take lots of pictures!

 

[NatoPMT]

why dont i know what granola is?

hoping youre cracking me up

crack

Im not sure what you mean

crack

neither my mum or dad could give me a brown eyed gene even though they both have brown eyes cos i have green eyes

crack

no such thing as a recessive brown gene

crack

apart from that senario i posted before about strong blue which i didnt understand

 

[NatoPMT]

oooOOooo sun!! enjoy flo-rida rounders!!

EDT got excited and read 8 hours, not 8 days.

 

[vickyd]

crack spread on granola mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......

 

[Jaymes]

Granola

Crack