Please help me -- But please don't judge or take offence..

[KittyVentura]

Jemma_x & Letia - Your LO's are just GORGEOUS!

Also - Hot Tea. Ramsay is bloody stunning. Kudos on the genes lol xx

 

[louandivy]

I'm a redhead - and I adore it! I'll be honest I didn't when I was younger, but I never got any real stick for it. No more than my other friend had stick for wearing glasses, or another friend had stick for a birth mark on her arm. Kids will find anything to pick on.

As for temper - I have been known to be quite firey - but more so in my teens. Apparently I was quite angelic as a little girl!

Also, interestingly, any attention I got from men seemed to be because of my hair firstly - they seemed to love it!

I pretty much knew I wouldn't have a redhaired baby - as DH is very dark and there is no red in his family at all, so genetically the chances were small. But I was still hoping for one. Next time maybe

Here's my hair in all its flaming glory - and Madeline and I looked very shocked at whatever was happening in The Night Garden x

Your hair - I WANT IT.

 

[nikkip75]

Have red haired babies/ people got that fiery temper or is it a myth?!?

I think its just a myth- my husband is ginger and is the least fiery person i know!

Before i write the strangest myth about red hair that i ever heard, can i just add a disclaimer!!!! I love red hair, my husband is ginger, my baby is going to be strawberry blonde and i used to dye my hair reddy/ginge till i accepted that it just didnt suit me!

When i was younger i was standing at the bar with a friend of mine who was ginger, the bar lady asked if she could smell his head!! when he asked why she replied "Because I've heard that all ginger peoples' hair smells of wee"

I couldn't believe it!!!! was so rude and just ridiculous!!!

red hair smells of wee! Never hear that one before The last time I smelt my daughters head all I could smell was that baby smell! I'm sure to us mums that smell never goes away!?

I wouldn't say she had a fiery temper. She was a normal toddler and tween and a typical teenager really.

Oh and my brother and sil both have brown hair, my brother is dark skinned. Sil fair skinned. They have 2 girls one blonde and one ginger! They are honestly like chalk and cheese!

 

[nicole_]

My OHs very ginger and never had any problems. I believe it's how he was bought up and was always confident and the funny one. If you make it a problem it will be IMO. Red head girls are gorgeous so I wouldn't worry, it's worse being male

 

[prettymachine]

Here's a weird red head fact..when i wwas in the hospital having my daughter they monitored me extra close for hemmoraging because they said red heads were a higher risk for it...weird!

 

[Spunky]

Here's a weird red head fact..when i wwas in the hospital having my daughter they monitored me extra close for hemmoraging because they said red heads were a higher risk for it...weird!

They said that to me too!!!! Also it takes more anestesia & pain meds for red heads. And our sensitive skin means BF hurts more. Weird! I know bf hurt for 3 months and i needed more pain meds, but not the rest.

 

[minties]

cleckner04 also has the most gorgeous daughter here on BnB...look up her user name! Her baby is stunning.

 

[Betheney]

i have very dark thick brown hair as does everyone in my family. My husband has a bit of red but everyone was convinced my genes would win out. (they didn't)

All during my pregnancy i remember being more interested if it was going to be a red head or a brunette. I cared more about that then i do about the baby being a boy or a girl.

I've always noticed the stigma on red heads and worried about her/him getting teased. But i was more worried having a red head meant my child would be ugly! TERRIBLE I KNOW!!!

Now that she's born i have totally embraced her read hair, having her fathers hair and complexion means she wont be overly hairy like i am i have hair everywhere! horrible facial hair and just all around hairiness. I was teased so much in high school about looking like a man and having sideburns that i dread thinking about it because it will screw with my head the next few days. So i'm excited my daughter didn't inherit my genes because she wont get teased the way i did. I am also incredibly excited about having a red haired child. Growing up i never ever would of predicted no matter who i married that i would have a child with red hair. But now that i have i'm so excited!!!!

I honestly think that if you yourself do not embrace your childs appearance then no matter how much you don't say anything negative and try and say things positive about it to your child i still don't think your child will ever feel fully confident with who they are. I have embrace Eva's hair because i want her too when she's older. I'm totally converted into a red head lover. I know red heads in school and not all of them were teased, others were teased more for completely other things.



My gorgeous gorgeous Red head! i'm just so excited, i have a fiery red as a daughter. Her hair is going to look divine as she grows.

It's hard to see her red headedness because she's so bald but you can see her glowing eyebrows in most of the piccies but look at my gorgeous girl! who is going to love being a red head because she is going to be gorgeous!!!

https://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/281938_10150332665949468_654784467_9506098_8224461_n.jpg
https://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/230694_10150228013259468_654784467_8548057_549038_n.jpg
https://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/248497_10150264301539468_654784467_8885653_3112000_n.jpg
https://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/320813_10150365046884468_654784467_9814216_223317736_n.jpg
https://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/252074_10150332665129468_654784467_9506091_2895877_n.jpg

In summary i think the problem lies with how we act and feel a mothers. You need to love the hair, TRULY love it as i did and i think teaching Eva to love it will make all the difference when she is a child. She will learn that it is unique and special and above all beautiful.

 

[pinklightbulb]

Lovely LOs with red hair! Just gorgeous!

Both OH and I have red hair in our family, but neither of us have it, and Eamon has white-blond hair. I wouldn't have minded if he turned out with red hair, and it will be interesting to see what color hair Pip might turn out with since we obviously have blond, red and brown hair in our genes

 

[MizzDeeDee]

I mean... how many of us have red headed babies? How many of us have reddish hair? I don't know a lot of red heads or red headed babies- we should have a society for gingers......we'd be unstoppable.. except during the day because our skin would burn really bad.

 

[prettymachine]

i have very dark thick brown hair as does everyone in my family. My husband has a bit of red but everyone was convinced my genes would win out. (they didn't)

All during my pregnancy i remember being more interested if it was going to be a red head or a brunette. I cared more about that then i do about the baby being a boy or a girl.

I've always noticed the stigma on red heads and worried about her/him getting teased. But i was more worried having a red head meant my child would be ugly! TERRIBLE I KNOW!!!

Now that she's born i have totally embraced her read hair, having her fathers hair and complexion means she wont be overly hairy like i am i have hair everywhere! horrible facial hair and just all around hairiness. I was teased so much in high school about looking like a man and having sideburns that i dread thinking about it because it will screw with my head the next few days. So i'm excited my daughter didn't inherit my genes because she wont get teased the way i did. I am also incredibly excited about having a red haired child. Growing up i never ever would of predicted no matter who i married that i would have a child with red hair. But now that i have i'm so excited!!!!

I honestly think that if you yourself do not embrace your childs appearance then no matter how much you don't say anything negative and try and say things positive about it to your child i still don't think your child will ever feel fully confident with who they are. I have embrace Eva's hair because i want her too when she's older. I'm totally converted into a red head lover. I know red heads in school and not all of them were teased, others were teased more for completely other things.



My gorgeous gorgeous Red head! i'm just so excited, i have a fiery red as a daughter. Her hair is going to look divine as she grows.

It's hard to see her red headedness because she's so bald but you can see her glowing eyebrows in most of the piccies but look at my gorgeous girl! who is going to love being a red head because she is going to be gorgeous!!!

https://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/281938_10150332665949468_654784467_9506098_8224461_n.jpg
https://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/230694_10150228013259468_654784467_8548057_549038_n.jpg
https://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/248497_10150264301539468_654784467_8885653_3112000_n.jpg
https://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/320813_10150365046884468_654784467_9814216_223317736_n.jpg
https://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/252074_10150332665129468_654784467_9506091_2895877_n.jpg

In summary i think the problem lies with how we act and feel a mothers. You need to love the hair, TRULY love it as i did and i think teaching Eva to love it will make all the difference when she is a child. She will learn that it is unique and special and above all beautiful.

Thats crazy her eyebrows are red! Mine have always been blonde... My sister too and we are both redheads...maybe your daughters red gene's are stronger than mine? Lol. And yes she wont have to hair...i can go a month without shaving my legs and you wouldnt k now it unless you touched it.

 

[Betheney]

Thats crazy her eyebrows are red! Mine have always been blonde... My sister too and we are both redheads...maybe your daughters red gene's are stronger than mine? Lol. And yes she wont have to hair...i can go a month without shaving my legs and you wouldnt k now it unless you touched it.

Her eyebrows are always this orange/red colour some days her hair barely looks red and you really wouldn't think she's a red head unless you spotted the eyebrows. But what i find interesting about her too is that her eyelashes are BLACK and thick. I made a thread and found that it does happen but plenty of red heads don't have black eyelashes. I thought originally she was going to be very very red like her daddy was a kid, but i've seen so many red headed babies her age and they glow orange/red so much more than she does so i thought MAYBE she'll be a strawberry blonde, but then again her eyebrows are so ORANGE. Now i'm thinking she'll be more of a dark red because of the black eyelashes.

such a guessing game. lol

 

[MizzDeeDee]

Thats crazy her eyebrows are red! Mine have always been blonde... My sister too and we are both redheads...maybe your daughters red gene's are stronger than mine? Lol. And yes she wont have to hair...i can go a month without shaving my legs and you wouldnt k now it unless you touched it.

Her eyebrows are always this orange/red colour some days her hair barely looks red and you really wouldn't think she's a red head unless you spotted the eyebrows. But what i find interesting about her too is that her eyelashes are BLACK and thick. I made a thread and found that it does happen but plenty of red heads don't have black eyelashes. I thought originally she was going to be very very red like her daddy was a kid, but i've seen so many red headed babies her age and they glow orange/red so much more than she does so i thought MAYBE she'll be a strawberry blonde, but then again her eyebrows are so ORANGE. Now i'm thinking she'll be more of a dark red because of the black eyelashes.

such a guessing game. lol

My daughter is the same way.. she has that strawberry blonde hair that sometimes doesn't look red but red eyebrows and dark eyelashes. Very weird..but again, my hair is an auburn... sometimes, but my eyebrows are dark. I guess it really is all about genetics.

 

[EllaAndLyla]

Can I say, my little sister is called Isabelle and has strawberry/ginger hair. She got a bit of stick for it, especially in primary school 'ginger minger' and all that. But she was always proud to be a ginger, she wore her colours loud & proud Now she is older she has died it but she will always be ginger, you can tell just by looking at her skin colour. I don't know what it is but her hair colour is like her personality, she just generally suits being a redhead. It is a beautiful colour and I wouldn't worry about it, kids always get picked on for things and its not acceptable but it is sometimes inevitable, I got picked on for silly things like having freckles only on/around my nose and having short hair because it made me look like a 'boy' xx

Here is my sister when she was a little bub, I think shes gorgeous
https://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/150054_1461830108100_1303873818_31107044_4901302_n.jpg

 

[Shannyxox]

Your not a bad mummy hun, Your just worried she will get bullied and things, of couse your not a bad mummy x

 

[Natasha2605]

I soo know where you are coming from. My OH's ginger (although it does often look brownish) and I can't tell you the amount of times I had secret worries to myself about Summer having really ginger hair. OH was teased mad for it and I know people I went to school with were too. It's not about my personal preferance (because I don't have one) but for Summer's sake. I honestly hoped she wouldn't be ginger.

She's gone blonde. No idea where she got that from but I know that being in Spain in June really really lightened it up! Before that she was starting to look auburny. This is a pic of my OH and Summer together in Spain :

https://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz75/Natasha2605/hollipops016-1.jpg

Yes I love his hair, but it doesn't mean I necessarily wanted it for my daughter.

 

[~RedLily~]

I'm really jealous now I had auburn hair when I was little but it's just mousy now and no way near as nice. Very tempted to dye it after this thread

 

[BabyJayne]

i have very dark thick brown hair as does everyone in my family. My husband has a bit of red but everyone was convinced my genes would win out. (they didn't)

All during my pregnancy i remember being more interested if it was going to be a red head or a brunette. I cared more about that then i do about the baby being a boy or a girl.

I've always noticed the stigma on red heads and worried about her/him getting teased. But i was more worried having a red head meant my child would be ugly! TERRIBLE I KNOW!!!

Now that she's born i have totally embraced her read hair, having her fathers hair and complexion means she wont be overly hairy like i am i have hair everywhere! horrible facial hair and just all around hairiness. I was teased so much in high school about looking like a man and having sideburns that i dread thinking about it because it will screw with my head the next few days. So i'm excited my daughter didn't inherit my genes because she wont get teased the way i did. I am also incredibly excited about having a red haired child. Growing up i never ever would of predicted no matter who i married that i would have a child with red hair. But now that i have i'm so excited!!!!

I honestly think that if you yourself do not embrace your childs appearance then no matter how much you don't say anything negative and try and say things positive about it to your child i still don't think your child will ever feel fully confident with who they are. I have embrace Eva's hair because i want her too when she's older. I'm totally converted into a red head lover. I know red heads in school and not all of them were teased, others were teased more for completely other things.



My gorgeous gorgeous Red head! i'm just so excited, i have a fiery red as a daughter. Her hair is going to look divine as she grows.

It's hard to see her red headedness because she's so bald but you can see her glowing eyebrows in most of the piccies but look at my gorgeous girl! who is going to love being a red head because she is going to be gorgeous!!!

In summary i think the problem lies with how we act and feel a mothers. You need to love the hair, TRULY love it as i did and i think teaching Eva to love it will make all the difference when she is a child. She will learn that it is unique and special and above all beautiful.

Your genes did win out though too - as you have to have the gene yourself to give you a redhead daughter You must have the recessive "r" gene as you need two of them to make a redhead. Obviously one came from your husband - it's all he had to give being a redhead himself - and the other one came from you! Yay - you're a ginger in hiding

 

[Itsychik]

Maybe this is a regional thing... I grew up in the U.S. (Virginia) and have never heard of someone getting picked on for having red/ginger hair, and I had several red-headed friends.

Now I live in the Netherlands and my LO was born with red hair. It amuses me that it's the first thing people comment on, but I've still never gotten the impression that he'll get made fun of for it...?

I say, don't worry! Our red-headed babies are gorgeous, no matter what anyone says

 

[Betheney]

Maybe this is a regional thing... I grew up in the U.S. (Virginia) and have never heard of someone getting picked on for having red/ginger hair, and I had several red-headed friends.

Now I live in the Netherlands and my LO was born with red hair. It amuses me that it's the first thing people comment on, but I've still never gotten the impression that he'll get made fun of for it...?

I say, don't worry! Our red-headed babies are gorgeous, no matter what anyone says

I had this conversation with someone recently. Growing up i had red heads at primary school and high school and they never got teased EVER! I thought it was like a new thing. So i was talking to a friend of mine who's entire family has red hair and she said no it's been going on forever as back as far as she can remember, her parents, herself, her kids. She isn't really phased by it, they all think it's funny and poke fun at it too. Then i talked to another friend who is slightly older than me and she said yep she was called "RED RED PERIOD HEAD!" all through school!!! which again surprised me because i never heard of red heads copping it until the last few years so i thought the same now that i live somewhere else maybe it's an area thing. Maybe this is also why i don't care that Eva has red hair because i never saw red heads getting tease growing up.