Chel
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Does anyone else feel like they influenced the physical/personal traits of their babies during their pregnancy or even conception?
I had my heart set on blue eyes, I'm the only person in my family except for my nanna who died last year who had blue eyes. My OH is Lebanese and has VERY dark features, his eyes are nearly black, he has black hair and dark olive skin (and looks oh-so-sexy, I think these middle-eastern men are an untapped resource of the tall dark and handsom man!!!) But, the downside of that I thought during my pregnancy that his leb features would overpower my caucasian ones and I end up with a pale leb baby... so... I convinced myself if Jasper had blue eyes it would enough that he would be 'my' baby.
So, for nearly 9 months solid I thought about blue eyes, I caught myself saying things like "if this baby knows whats good for it, it'll have blue eyes" and even though outwardly I was joking, inwardly I knew I'd have been disapointed with brown eyes... and that feeling made me feel guilty! But I REALLY wanted blue eyes!
Now, if we're out and about barely a day goes by when a stranger wont stop me with him and say "wow what beautiful blue eyes"... they're the bluest blue eyes I think I've ever seen, they're stunning saphire blue in natural light and a deep steelly blue indoors.
His hair was blonde at birth, but its starting to grow in darker and his skin tone is as dark as the skin on my arms and I'm in the sun ALL the time and he's had almost no sun exposure to his skin... so he's going to have remarkable colouring!
And I do wonder if all that hoping and praying actually effected the colour of his eyes? Maybe we have more control over these things that we think... its a forgotten inner knowledge of the modern age or something?
Anyone else feel this way?
I had my heart set on blue eyes, I'm the only person in my family except for my nanna who died last year who had blue eyes. My OH is Lebanese and has VERY dark features, his eyes are nearly black, he has black hair and dark olive skin (and looks oh-so-sexy, I think these middle-eastern men are an untapped resource of the tall dark and handsom man!!!) But, the downside of that I thought during my pregnancy that his leb features would overpower my caucasian ones and I end up with a pale leb baby... so... I convinced myself if Jasper had blue eyes it would enough that he would be 'my' baby.
So, for nearly 9 months solid I thought about blue eyes, I caught myself saying things like "if this baby knows whats good for it, it'll have blue eyes" and even though outwardly I was joking, inwardly I knew I'd have been disapointed with brown eyes... and that feeling made me feel guilty! But I REALLY wanted blue eyes!
Now, if we're out and about barely a day goes by when a stranger wont stop me with him and say "wow what beautiful blue eyes"... they're the bluest blue eyes I think I've ever seen, they're stunning saphire blue in natural light and a deep steelly blue indoors.
His hair was blonde at birth, but its starting to grow in darker and his skin tone is as dark as the skin on my arms and I'm in the sun ALL the time and he's had almost no sun exposure to his skin... so he's going to have remarkable colouring!
And I do wonder if all that hoping and praying actually effected the colour of his eyes? Maybe we have more control over these things that we think... its a forgotten inner knowledge of the modern age or something?
Anyone else feel this way?