I am mixed race, and my baby is also obviously mixed. He has a beautiful skin tone, olive and lovely curly hair. I'm slightly darker with afrohair. But since having him, it seems to be all everybody mentions.
Before he was born, people would make comments like 'I wonder how dark he'll be?'
I've been asked if 'I'm worried about his skin colour?'
I've had 'it's a good job his hair isn't as Afro as yours'.
And today I joined a new toddler group and one girl just came straight over to me and said 'oh a quarter cast baby'. Which I said was quite an outdated term as 'cast' actually means 'pure' in Latin. Plus stop talking about my son like he's an object not a person!
I'm getting so upset that everyone is just focusing on our colour all the time. I've never really noticed all the comments until I've had my boy, and now it's bothering me a lot. Or am I just making myself worked up for no reason?
My husband is also shocked by how many comments are being made!
:-( x