We are a mixed South East Asian-Caucasian (European rather than English) family. My first child looks standard mixed race. My 2nd child has brown-blonde hair and blue eyes, which are no longer the dark blue of newborn babies. 2nd child is past the 6 month point and although she may lose the blonde hair and blue eyes soon enough, it still seems very surprising! On my side of the family, babies are usually born with brown eyes and black hair or, less commonly, grey eyes (for a short period) and very dark brown hair. There are no non-South East Asians in my family for as far back as anyone can remember, at least a century. However, there are some members of my family on both my parents' sides with lighter colouring (lighter brown skin, lighter brown eyes, very dark brown hair rather than black), which could indicate some non-local ancestry. All shades of brown though
Is it possible for 2nd child to have got her colouring from DH alone? Or is it likely that there is someone in my ancestry who is white-Caucasian and those genes have made their way down the ages into my child?
She definitely wasn't switched at birth
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Feelingchipper · 09/03/2017 10:48
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