Does anyone know which parent determines who the baby will look like?

Question

I am dark brown skinned (brazilian) with dark brown eyes & jet black hair and my husband is german with green eyes, fair skin & blonde hair. I took looks after my dad. I look exactly like him and my grandpa. My husband does not look like anyone in his family. He is the only one with green eyes and blonde hair. (The rest have dark brown hair/dark brown eyes) Who is our baby likely to take after?

Answer 1

Most likely you. You sound like you have the dominant genes.

I know there's an old thing that people say in which if you have a daughter, she will take after her father's mother. And if you have a son, he will take after the mother's father.

I dont know how true that is, but it worked for my son. He looks like my father...and his own, too, lol.

Really, its all about the dominant genes. And brown eyes are more dominant than green. Black hair is more dominant than blonde. So most likely, your child will have more of your features (in colors), but could have their face, if that makes sense. And then there's always that one in four chance that your child will have blonde hair or green eyes.

Answer 2

It can't be determined. It's a matter of genes. The baby might take genes from both parents and be a combination of both, or even like the grandparents. Example, my parents were 5' & 5'2" and my brother and I were 6'1" & 6'3"
But our grandfather on father's side was tall. I have the personality of both parents and my bother definately my father. But we both have looks of both parents, such as I have my father's hair and skin, my brother my mother's hair. So your baby might favor you if it's a girl and favor you husband if it's a boy. But then again it could be a combination of both. My brother has one daughter that everyone mistook to be mine since she was the spiting image or me - in fact there was a lot of gossip that I was the father, but it wasn't true. When in Korea right after the war, children of american soldiers and Korean women it was found that the girl babies looked like their mothers and the boy's like their fathers.

Answer 3

You won't know until the baby is born. The baby gets half it's genes from you and have from its father but in general dark hair and eyes are dominant so that is more likely.

Answer 4

Sorry, but you are just going to have to be patient and use your imagination. I know that desire to want to know, but the baby could easily look totally different than what the baby is "supposed" to look like. I have friends that are both olive skinned, dark hair, dark eyes and they had a boy with red hair, fair skin and blue eyes! Go figure!!!

Answer 5

Dark traits are generally dominant but you won't know til the baby is born and even then, the hair could lighten and the eyes could darken within the first year.

Answer 6

Both of your genes are used. You won't know who your baby will look like until your baby is born. The only person I look like in my family is my grandmother who has 11 kids that don't look anything like her but i am her twin. My 1st daughter looks just like me, but my 2nd daughter looks nothing at all like me or my first daughter.

Answer 7

Wow you will have a beautiful baby. My husband and i have 6 children.He is west indian(very dark skin,eyes,and hair) I am russian and half black with bright green eyes.All of our children have the same eyes(of course non of them got my green eyes they all got dads brown eyes) but as for everything else its quite funny.We had twins last year,one white baby girl with light brown reddish hair,and one black girl with jet black kinky hair. Our older ones look alike besides their skin colors are all different it is hilarious.I'm always blabbering on,congrats and you never know what to expect so just have fun playing around with different ideas of your characteristics.Congrats,and good luck,your baby is going to be a heart breaker!

Answer 8

Both, but usually dark hair and eyes tend to be dominate unless you have a recessive gene for blond hair and green eyes and than there is a bigger chance but not necessarily high chance that you might have a child that has blond hair and green eyes

Answer 9

you know there are a millon different possiblities as to what your baby can look like. It doesn't matter who has what your baby could look like you, or your husband, or some way off distant relative. The possibilites are endless!

Answer 10

I am Engish with a darker complextion brown hair & brown eyes. My ex had blonde hair & was very light skinned color. I just assumed that my daughter would look more like me because I was darker. WRONG she has blonde hair & green/gray eyes. He had stronger genes than me. You never know