Mixed race baby

[Lealea248]

I’m getting really fed up of comments about how light my baby is. I’m white and very pale with fair hair and blue eyes. Partner is Jamaican with dark skin and dark eyes. My baby is pale with dark blue/grey eyes and straight brown hair. Anybody else have a baby this light? I’m interested to know whether he will get darker. I love him so much and don’t care what people think but I’m just fed up of ohhh he’s light

What a gorgeous baby. I'm mixed raced white/asian with brown eyes and my partner is white with brown eyes. My eldest DD is very pale with blue eyes and dark brown hair and my youngest looks like she's from Brazil with beautiful golden skin and brown eyes. When they're together you'd never guess they were related. When my oldest was a baby, I used to carry her birth certificate around with me as you'd never guess we were related - just bonkers really! I

Oh look at him! He's just lovely.

Yes it's rude to comment. I guess it's just something people like to speculate on - which parent the child looks like, how this changes over time, etc.

What a beautiful baby op. I was pale as a child and darkened up as an adult. British/Jamaican heritage

I love that saying so much ❤️

Also at the moment he has no colour around his nail beds or on his ears. Does this also take time to appear or is it usually from birth?

Thanks for your comments. Still getting a lot of comments about skin colour and it is really getting to me as I’m not sure why people are trying to imply.

Hmm Lealea248 you will have to wait and see. You could probably see around his fingers If his skin appears darker but I dont know If that's just an old wives tale or not. I think also if he hands the bluespot on his back/bum that fades over time as his colour would develop. I'm guessing you or your parents might have natural blond hair/blue eyed genes which are surprisingly strong vs 'black' genes. Tbf if your partner is Jamaican it's highly likely he has mixed heritage himself and dnt know it yet. (think Indian, Irish, Spanish/Portuguese even chinese or british)
If it matters much babies eyes will probably darken to brown, dont know about skin but baby will resemble both parents in features anyway. You'll find your next baby will probably be totally different. Me and my Dh are both mixed and our 3dcs all have different skin tones, one of them even looks completely 100% white light hair and everything, I get a lot of comments about that one 😒 which is so annoying if you actually looked at us both beyond skin and hair colour there is a strong resemblance.

I was born white to a Jamaican dad...straight hair and everything! My mum got questioned...dad nearly walked out! A midwife had to explain to him why I wasn't as dark as the other mixed baby next door haha. Funnily enough he went on to have two more kids with his current partner, one is white as milk with straight hair and one darker than me with African hair..so I'm sure he gets it now.

I know quite a few mixes race kids who have like a deep tan look with straight blond (turned brown later) hair and some who still have blue/green eyes. some pale but turn dark when the suns out. Gorgeous either way.
Wouldn't worry about it love like I said before baby will still resemble both parents.
If anyone asks you rude questions tell them to mind their business or go look up how genes work
xx

forgot to say I darkened up by time I was 1 then again went darker by 2 and sprouted a thick fro and stayed that way.

oops I hadn't RTFT properly I see mums fair the babys dad is mixed with white irish too...hes such a gorgeous little one by the way

Thanks for your comment. It’s crazy how genes work, think there’s to many uneducated people who make comments and it can be hurtful. My partner isn’t mixed, his mum and Dad are black Jamaican but his great grandma was white with blonde hair and blue eyes so he definitely carries lighter genes too. I’m interested to see how my baby turns out. He’s so pale now and his eyes seem to get more blue by the day. Only time will tell :)

My 3 children are mixed race - eldest is the darkest (very dark brown hair, olive skin and dark eyes), middle one is a bit lighter and the youngest is almost blonde with light eyes and fairer skin (does get a gorgeous tan though!) - she was a lot darker when she was born though.

Here are more recent pics of my son. Still very light, he also does not have any difference in colour on his ears or nails beds

He's a real cutey.
My Dh is a dark skinned Egyptian and had afro hair, although he is as bald as a coot now!
Our eldest Ds is a similar skin colour to your baby, apart from that he has the darkest brown, almost black eyes. His hair is mousy brown with a slight curl. His sister however, is as dark skinned as her dad, with jet black afro hair.
There is also someone in dh's family who has no white ancestry that we know of and is very dark skinned, yet has dazzling blue eyes!
Genes can throw up many wonderful varieties and combinations.

I went to school with several siblings who were all blond with light coloured eyes; their dad was Jamaican and mum was white and blond. That was just the way the genes worked out. I assume that the dad had some recessive gene which was to do with a white ancestor. In my own extended family , we have a family member who had two mixed race parents, he was very fair skinned and people were often surprised when meeting his parents for the first time. When he married his children were mistaken for Italians as they both had olive skin and dark eyes. Their mum was white British, you just can't tell with genes, sometimes they do the oddest things. Think of the different hair colours in your family, if it's anything like mine it will be all shades from black to blond , and yet we have the same ancestors. Just the way the genes worked that time too.

My dad and his family are from the Caribbean, my mum is white, my sis and I are both fairly light skinned. Ignore people, they're just nosy and ignorant xx

He is gorgeous

Hi.
Glad I found your thread as I’m currently feeling like this.
Wanting to cut a long story short.
Yes, I think your gorgeous baby will get darker.
I’m black, dad is white Italian and when my now 8 m old daughter was born, she looked white,Mongolian but now , she’s looks a bit more dark.
But not dark enough to be my daughter as her Italian nanny yesterday felt the need to say my baby and her look so similar in colour, my daughter could pass for hers.
It really pissed me off!
She has 3 sons and this is the first grandchild and she also say to some random person on the street in Italian: I finally had my girl”. Again, pissed. I just felt so small. I really feel like if my daughter daughter doesn’t catch a bit more colour, my maternity will always be questioned
To , having a mixed child is not easy. I love my daughter and I love her regardless of how she looks and I suggest you just enjoy your baby boy.
I’m playing it by the ear and if I feel like she’s trying to be territorial with my daughter, I will set her straight. I suggest you do the and with all these people making comments about how light your baby is.
It’s really not on.
Congrats!

I have a couple of friends in a similar situation to you - she's white, he's mixed race. Their baby has bright blue eyes and looks white, but also has his dad's face! He is a beautiful little boy.

Congratulations on your baby op!

Have your friends been around many black or mixed-race newborns, OP? Even babies born to 2 black parents are often very light-skinned at birth and go darker over the next couple years. I'm a midwife and remember the first time I delivered an African couple's baby as a student, both parents were very dark but the baby was almost the same colour as yours. My face must have betrayed my surprise as the woman laughed and said "you've never seen a black newborn, have you? They're always that colour!" She was right; I've seen very few newborns that are dark-skinned right at birth. (And I'm thankful she saw the funny side - it was v unprofessional of me
)
I think it's because the melanin - although already present in the skin -needs to be sort of "activated" by exposure to light, which he hasn't had much of yet.
To echo PPs - he is beautiful. That little mouth!! 😍

He is gorgeous.

A friend of mine has four mixed race children. She is African and very dark skin, her hubby is Norwegian and very pale with ice blue eyes.
Every child is a different skin tone/eye colour.
The eldest is dark and the youngest is pale.
She says shes running out of toner!

Wanted to say he is gorgeous! I think it just depends but reckon he may be darken a little. Perhaps have a tanned complexion. Don't let other people's comments upset you, have a look at Jesse Williams and you will be in awe at how beautifully striking light eyes and dark brown skin is together x

It's rude, also most people don't realise a lot of black and mixed rave babies are born white and darken over a few months but they shouldn't be making it an issue

It annoys me when people do this if it was a big person you wouldn't say ohhh you're so fat arent you?get this all the time my babies are white Grendain and Asian one has straight hair other has curly afro hair its something you just learn to get thick skinned about and bored of!

*Grendaian

I have the same issue now... I was wondering if your little one is now darker?