Mixed race babies

[WholeHearted89]

Apologies in advance because this is my second post of a similar vane in a week!

But I’m just reaching out to parents of mixed race children. And my question is …

When your child was born, in the early days, how obvious was it that they were from a mixed ethnicity coupling?

I ask because there is a question over the paternity of baby and she is either going to be completely caucasian or half Pakistani.

A DNA test will obviously be going ahead in the early days but I’m just wondering if it’ll be obvious to myself or others before the results.

Thank you.

I agree with no red tone to the skin! Also, my baby had a Mongolian spot at birth (present in ~10% white babies).

I think the phrase used now is biracial

That's an American phrase. My son isn't biracial, he's made up of 3 primarily. He calls himself mixed.

My sister and I are half Indian half white. I look fully Asian and my sister looks more sort of Turkish (white skin but black hair and dark eyes)

@incognito50me my boys had the blue spots too!

Maybe, maybe not, Gene's do what they wanna do

My mum is half Spanish half English, she had 2 olive children and 2 white children.

I'm one of the olives ones, my childrens father is white and I have 1 olive child and 1 white child

Definitely American! Even the forms here used say mixed not “biracial” this isn’t America.

anyway it was obvious with my kids but they are only 1/4 white 3/4 black, but now they are older they just look mixed 1/2 and 1/2

Not true ... my sil is Pakistani . She has two daughters . Older one is white presenting , younger one is south asian presenting.
Older one is at university in a diverse city and has said her friends/peers are surprised when she says she is mixed race , she says everyone assumes she is white.
Sil would relay stories on a regular basis , about people asking her whose baby she was looking after when niece was little .

It can also take a little while to be able to tell

All the mixed Asian babies I have known have all been with almost to full head of black hair

What about the Mongolian spot? I say this as my ex had it when he was born

Not all mixed race babies have a Mongolian spot and not all will look obviously mixed race when born (if ever).

Genetics are fascinating and it really is a lottery as a pp put it.

OP Have you seen Lucy and Maria Aylmer? Genetics can and do make life interesting.

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I am half Indian and my husband is white - our children are both very fair skinned with green eyes, so you wouldn’t even know they are mixed race. Genetics are weird sometimes so I wouldn’t go on a baby’s appearance to confirm paternity.

I'm mixed race and so our son is quarter black, he is incredibly fair with dark blond hair and blue/green eyes. I guess it depends which of the parent's genes are most prominent!

Hi lovely people,

thanks so much for your responses! :) DNA test will definitely be taking place soon after birth as I said but just trying to gauge how obvious it may be and from this thread, the consensus I’m getting is not very 😂🙈

@iwishihadaname the only thing I have to go on is at a recent scan the sonographer said baby had a lot of hair already, at 30 weeks. But even then that isn’t a lot!! 😂

thank you everyone x

well I am very fair (Scottish Dad) blonde hair, blue eyes, never tan even on holiday 😋 so it may be clear from this.

DS came out and couldn’t look any more like his Dad if he tried, so I guess time will tell :)

This is what I worry about as I don’t know how long DNA test results take …… but baby is already so so loved regardless of paternity. 🩷

I kid you not, my MIL asked my dp if our first was deffo his when she visited ds at a day old. He was very pale but few days later his pigmentation came through but ver6n
Ight skinned, his hair though you could tell he was clearly mixed

I am aware :) but only recently. And the £800 seems a bit steep when I will find out in two months anyway. If I had known about them right at the beginning of the pregnancy, I would have done it to spare confusion and stress.

I don't know if it is true for other races but Afro-Caribbean / white children can have blue spot - it could give you your answer

My kids are mixed race. DS2 is whiter than his white dad. You can tell he is mixed when he stands next to his fully white cousins as they are whiter than him. It's not obvious looking at him standing on his own.

That's certainly not always true. Not by any stretch.

My two children are half Indian. When newborns they had a kind of olive/tan complexion - not pink like Caucasian babies. They both had big brown eyes from birth and very dark hair.

It can go either way.

My children are mixed race. DD is dark like her Turkish/Greek Jewish father. DS is pale like white me.