Mixed race baby mums-to-be

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Wanted to see if there are any other mums-to-be of mixed race babies around. I'm black and DH is white/Middle Eastern. It's been interesting that DH family thinks the baby will look black, whereas I am prepared for a little one ranging anywhere from white blonde (like FIL) to dark (like my dad) and anything in between!

Other issues involved in a mixed marriage - names! Trying to choose one that works with our various cultures...well let's just say we haven't gotten very far on that front. No fights or anything - more like "My grandmother won't be able to pronounce that" or "That means 'ass' in my language" type of issues.

So anyone having (or already had) mixed race kids to share wisdom, worries, and joys, come on in All backgrounds welcome!

I'm white, my DH is indo-Caribbean so essentially looks Indian. Based on friends who have had similar ethnic mixes, I'm expecting two capuccino coloured babies as my white blonde hair blue eyed recessive genes won't win the battle against his brown eyed black haired dominant genes but we joke as there's two we could have one White and one brown. My DH was very pale when he was born (to the point my mil was asked whether he was actually hers) so they could both appear very fair skinned with dark hair at birth but will then becime darker skinned than me over time.
Names wise we are lucky in that we don't have a different language to take into account and modern West Indian names are often English names. My DH was born and raised here so if he does suggest a more West Indian name I know he is normally joking!
I'm looking forward to raising my children across two cultures and have already primed FIL that he is responsible for teaching them about the island their family emigrated from.

About 3 months after I found out I was pregnant (after a long time trying!) I suddenly realised our baby would be mixed-race. I love this because the realisation showed that it had never been an issue for either of us or our families. I can't imagine that would have been the case 30 years ago, and it makes me happy to think that, in my world at least, the ethnicity of my husband and children really doesn't matter. In fact, when anyone has commented, it's been on the fact that we'll raise our baby bilingual, and what an advantage that will be.

I'm of Anglo-Irish heritage and my husband is Middle-Eastern. He reckons his brown genes are stronger than mine, though I like to remind him that the fat-baby genes in our family are very strong too, so we're likely to have a brown-skinned chunky baby, possibly with freckles!

On names, we started with an agreement that we would only chose something that both our mothers would be able to pronouce - which ruled out quite a few! Now, at 6 months, we've finally managed to reduced the shortlist to around 3 of each (we're not finding out the sex). We started off each having a few favourites that the other one really disliked, so we just gathered a long list and invited our families to suggest as many as possible - I was surprised that some lovely names I considered English or Irish also worked well in Arabic, and vice versa. Biblical names tend to work well, though I know not everyone likes them.

Wishing you both the best of luck in your pregnancies.

I'm Romany and DH is English/Welsh. When DS was born he had dark looks like me, now he's blonde like DH as a kid and he looks nothing like me at all, although he's 7 months, so still changing. Wondering how this DC will turn out looks wise?

Names and language aren't a problem for us as my family have been here for centuries and speak English (with the odd Romany phrase or word thrown in) and we use the same names.

Yes!!

I am Indian and DH Is White British. We are expecting any combination of brown skin/black eyes/black hair and white skin/hazel eyes/blonde hair.

Names, oooof. Yes. I basically have the this means shit in English type of conversations! Which I agree applies to mannnnny words in my language. So, for example, the word for Queen in my language would be an adjective in English you'd use to describe loose poo.

We've got a Sankrit first name we both love, a British middle name and a double barrelled last name.

I'm British but mixed heritage, so brown hair and hazel eyes but my partner is Indian, I'm very much looking forward to seeing our baby and hope she looks like him.
We've chosen an English name that has Indian influences as her surname will be Indian.

I am white (English, redhead Irish decent), ex is Indian/Jamaican. DS looks more Indian but goes very very dark in the sun. DD looks more Jamaican with very curly beautiful hair, she looks very much like her brother but not so Indian.

Currently expecting DC3 with current partner who is Baijan, but very light skinned. We think that baby will be very light, if not almost white but perhaps with very curly reddish hair?

We are absolutely so excited to see what baby looks like.

My two older children both have almost black eyes, so will be interesting to see the colour of this baby's eyes.

I am very proud of my mixed race children and their heritage. My son has an English name, and my daughter has an Italian name. This baby will have a Greek name. For no other reason than we like the name.

From experience they do tend to have much more sensitive skin (prone to eczema and cradle cap) and their mongolian blue patches came as a surprise (I thought someone had smacked my DS!)

Both patches were gone by about age 2.

My DH is white (brown hair) and i'm an Pakistani/White mix (black hair).

DD has pale skin, and light brown hair which was almost blond when she was 2-3 years old.

DS has dark brown hair and skin nearly the colour of mine. He also tans very easily so he's almost as dark as my dad in the summer months despite the factor 40 suncream!

My partner is from st Helena and black and I'm 1/4 indian. Our daughter is 11months old and beautiful. My hair is brown/red and hers is the same. She has almost straight but very coarse hair and its black with red in it. She was born very pale but with Features' and it took about 3months untill her colour started to show properly. Now she is exactly the same colour as my partner which we were all surprised by ?? name wise I made up a name and its Shariiaah-Starr. Very different but easy to say. Its unique just like her ?? good luck and I'm sure no matter what your baby will be absolutely beautiful ?? xxx

I am white British - blue eyed, pale skin. DH is Arab.

2DCs have green eyes, 3DCs have brown eyes. All have brown hair that goes lighter in the sun. All look British but take an amazing tan in the sun - looking like my DH.

Because we have an Arabic surname we have given the DCs an Arabic first name too as it sounds better, but they are all easy to pronounce and have lovely meanings.

Your baby will be beautiful, congratulations

DH is American (mixed Irish/English/French/Italian heritage) and had light brown/dark blond hair and has blue eyes. I have Turkish heritage... So basically, I assume I'm considered white, but even though my skin is not dark, I have very dark brown eyes and dark brown hair.

DS looks very "Western" with dark blonde/light brown hair and green eyes.

DD has an olive toned skin (very Mediterranean) with the most beautiful hazel eyes and brown hair with natural light brown highlights.

Both my DCs look like my DH's family. So there go my superior genes.

Currently pregnant with DC3. Really curious how this one will turn out, as it really can be anywhere from dark skinned to light and any color of eyes.

My husband is white Welsh, I am of Northern Indian ethnicity. Our DS has the most beautiful light cappuccino coloured skin with medium brown hair which looks copperish in the sun, and brown eyes. He is just so gorgeous! Mixing gene pools is a good thing!

I am white British and my DH is of Chinese origin. My DD is a real mix of both of us with medium brown hair and eyes and my pale skin with rosy cheeks! All these children sound beautiful

I'm white, Dp is Asian. I expected a brown eyed, black haired mini version of him. Our daughter emerged whiter than white with blue eyes and brown hair. She's 5 months old and look old exactly like me. Genes are weird.

Such interesting backgrounds!

NorahM DH is half-Turkish but he has an English last name from his dad's side. Hence why names are complicated for us, hard to find a combination that sounds good together!

I hope the baby looks like DH no matter the color, he was so cute when he was a kid

loveandsmiles snap! I'm blond haired, blue eyed British & DH is North African Black hair, brown eyes.

We were discussing this with the in laws at the weekend and we'd love an olive skinned, blue eyed little one. It's probably unlikely with the blue recessive gene though.

In terms of names, we're thinking an easily pronounced Arabic first name and an English middle name.

Um, I'm not mum-to-be yet, because I'm not currently pregnant so I don't know if I qualify to answer this thread.
But we plan to TTC next year in 2016, husband have BABY FEVER! He wants it like NOW NOW, but No! I want to spend one year couple time with him before we bring in a baby.

I'm Chinese (Asian-American), and my husband is Black (African-American)
We went through ALOT of hardship to be together, especially with my mother who disapprove him and disown me after I married him.
If married him means my mom will disown me, then let it be. I have ZERO regret.

Well, we married now and none of us have any regrets. He said he is happy in our marriage and he wants to 'stay married'.
I'm just sooo not ready to be a mother right now. I do want a year of him all to myself before I give him a baby, lol

DS is mixed, Euro and African - not going to get into more details otherwise I will be outed

He's 23 and as a LP it's been hard but wonderful. I am so proud of him.

Thank God! we have barely had any prejudice, we live in a very multi-cultural place.
Anyway, it's the way the world is going - Yea!

The more the merrier I say....