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Mochacocoa1989
Hi All My husband is Chinese and we are trying for our first child. I’m just fantasizing about what they will look like. I have green eyes, though my parents have blue/brown eyes. Wondering what the chances are that my green eyes can persevere through the super strong Asian genes. Not that I don’t love how Asians look, obviously I married one! What do your babies look like?
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Mochacocoa1989
The odds apparently do not look good looks like I have a beautiful brown eyed girl (or boy) in my future!
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Ak12ca
Hi. I’m Japanese with black hair and my Caucasian husband has blue eyes and brown hair. His parents have blue and green eyes with blond and light brown hair. Our daughter has brown eyes and very light brown hair. She didn’t carry much Asian feature for now but we’ll see. My parents say she’s mostly like my husband, but can see me in her.
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Gmom0218
I am Vietnamese and my husband is Caucasian red head with hazel eyes. Our first son has red hair and was born with blue eyes that turned hazel leaning more light brown than his fathers green. Our second son looks more like me with dark brown hair and eyes. So it is possible!
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Mochacocoa1989
@Gmom0218,
That’s crazy! Wow so I guess I have no idea what they will look like. Thanks!
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emilyhsukleinklavier
Hi there,
I am taiwanese and husband is caucasian. We are expecting our first baby. A friend of mine in college has asian father and caucasian mother. His feature has more of the father's than mother's side. My impression is that children do show father side of feature more than mother side. But you never know. Mixed babies tend to take best of the features from both mom and dad. I am pretty excited to see our baby in a few months.
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Mochacocoa1989
@emilyhsukleinklavier,
I’m a Chinese teacher and all of our Asian/White kids still look mostly Asian. I hope they have a little bit of me but realize the Asian genes are very dominant.
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monkeyshines33
@Mochacocoa1989,
they are very dominant. Our daughter looks NOTHING like me. Our son looks a bit more like me, but our daughter is the spitting image of her father
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Pandababy18
I’m half Taiwanese and half white. My dad has blue eyes my mom has obviously brown and my oldest brother and I have green eyes. My middle sibling has brown. And we all ended up with dark hair. I have 3 kids of my own with 100% white men all with dark hair and dark eyes just like their fathers. But my oldest brother and I have big eyes sortnof almond shaped. The middle sibling has smaller eyes. He looks most Asian in the eyes.
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Mochacocoa1989
@Pandababy18,
That’s so interesting! Can’t wait to see what ours will look like.
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PianomanTran
I’m Caucasian and my husband is Vietnamese. All of our kids brown hair and eyes. The boys both have very thick, course hair like their dad, and both girls have baby fine hair like my mom.
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Mochacocoa1989
@PianomanTran,
Your family is beautiful!
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Yellowrose101
@PianomanTran,
Thanks for sharing your beautiful family. I have a boringAsian features while my husband is blue-green eyed British guy. If ourkids turnout to look like me, I’m ok with it because I have less things to worry. I feel, Asian kids are more behave, discipline,and will feel less privileged. I can’t generalize everyone but I’m just speaking from my own insecurities. Nonetheless, we will still love and support our kids.
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eatallthecookiedough
I’ve been curious about this, too. My husband is Japanese-American and I’m Caucasian. Blue eyes are dominant in my family, with everyone having them, but I know the brown eyed gene from his Asian ancestry is stronger and more likely to show up. And not just eye color. I’m curious overall to see how genetics will shape our kids. Only a few more weeks until I see our first one!
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Mochacocoa1989
@eatallthecookiedough,
let us know how it turns out! According to the internet I have a 50/50 chance! I would be happy either way but it’s so fun to fantasize about what they will look like :)
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eatallthecookiedough
@Mochacocoa1989,
My son was born with hazel eyes. Though my understanding is that eye color in babies can change during the first year, so we’ll have to wait and see what it ends up being for sure.
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BabyBenessa
my husband is chinese and I’m a white mutt. I have hazel eyes (but my dad and sister have blue) my husband has very dark brown eyes. Our son has his eye color, but my hair color (medium brown). My husbands hair is black. We have another one on the way (girl) I don’t think she will have light eyes, but that would interesting.
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BabyBenessa
Here is us and our son. Clearly my husband has strong genes lol.
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Mochacocoa1989
@BabyBenessa,
Strong indeed! I can so see you in him though, that makes me smile :) people will still be able to tell my baby is mine.
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mikale22
My husband is praying for blue eyes too lol. My eyes are hazel and his are light brown. My mom and grandma have blue eyes and his grandpa actually has blue eyes too. We’ll see!!
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Mochacocoa1989
@mikale22,
what a little sweetheart! Beautiful baby mama!
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