DP red skinned jamaican me white, baby light skinned?

[Mum2boys3]

Hi all as the title says my mixed race baby who is a 1yr old now is only slightly tanned looking compared to me who is very pale and has slightly wavy ringlet/afro on back of head he has all his farthers features wide mouth fuller lips and broad snub nose but really has no colour compared to all his cousins and older brother(step-son) but at birth was darker will add to that his male bits are a shade or to darker than the rest of him. We are having another baby whats other people experience, should i expect this baby to have same or maybe be darker like my dp. So many people family and friends have all commented on how light he is and one male friend even asking if his dad was mixed race himself.

im in swindon, wiltshire. id love a girl as well, i am going to find out too but i will keep it a secret that i know from dp he thinks its bad luck. im not sure if i will have a girl my dp had 5 brothers and only 2 sisters

I have two mixed race girls, one is light, one is fairly dark....both gorgeous. Here comes the cliche.. as long as they are healthy who cares!

my mum had all girls and has 5 grandson and only one grandaughter, erin shes just a couple of months old. so buy percentage im more likely to have another lil boy too. but still would love a little girl?

Hi just wondering when your lo gets older will you tell him he mixed race my dp seems set on bringing up our baby to identify as black because he says that society will label him as black coz he is not 100% white. what are your thoughts on this. I know that he will still understand his half white parentage.

i do agree tht alot of mixed raced children and adukts i no do identify them sef as black rather than mixed race but i also no alot of people that do identify them selfs as mixed race and are very proud of it. i think it has a lot to do with the parents teaching. i hope that my kids will identify them self as mixed black and white as me and my partner cultures are so different that i like them to experience both sides and to identify them self as who they are as people.
like ie we eat afican/ english food
i try to share everything equally letting him experience both sides of his cultures so he can understand where he was born and also his heritage as it is half his.
im really luckly i guess because parters mum is really supportive in giving me all kinds of useful info that i can teach tim, food to cook, she buys african clothes and toys for him so he has variety of both cultures. and at least when he does identify himself he would know everything and i would feel i gave him all the opitunitys to learn both cultures.
i think some parts of society do identy mixed race people as black, but i also think it can depend on where you live. i grew up in london where there its was so multicultural that no body was really labelled this or that. i think that anybody that has friends?family that are mixed race can identify the difference immedietly.
u partner probally feels like (maybe were u live) that your children are going to be labelled black and he is trying to prepare them for that, But i think it unfair to block u, your family, and there british out completly. As this will be installed in them aanyway just from, your family, school, growing up in britian etc
Do u live in a multicultural city( ive never been to swindon b4)
i just try to do my best i guess but think its important that they make their own descision when there are ready.

oooh goosh that was a long message

Thanks that was really hepfull to me, swindon has a small black caribbean community with many of the children being mixed race ie white mothers and even my friend whos dad is mixed race and mother white identifies as being black when to me is three quarters white any way. Having said that its still not very big and i myself have no friends with mix race children. He gets equal experience to both cultures and mixes with his cousins who are mixed race. Like you i will allways see him as mixed race and will tell him so, i hope he will feel he fits in with black and white people as he grows up.