what color hair and eyes do you think our baby will have?

Question

hi - sorry if this sounds silly! I'm just a little obsessed! I am white, blonde hair blue eyes. My husband is mixed race - his mother is caribbean black and his dad is white (blonde hair blue eyes). My husband has light skin and green eyes. Is it possible to have a child that is blonde? Is it possible to have a child darker than my husband? Of course, I just want a happy healthy baby, but what do you think? Does anyone know someone who is 1/4 black/caribbean?

Answer 1

Anything is possible. Also consider the features of each grandparent and great grandparents. There could also be a dormant gene in you or him that has been passed down for 1000 years that could should up dominant in your baby. The possibilites are low but it happens. Just wait and see what you get and enjoy the surprise.
Hope the baby gets the green eyes though as they are rare.

Answer 2

Genetics are complicated and you won't know for sure until after your baby is born. You need to consider not only the genetic traits of you and the father, but of the grandparents, great grandparents, etc. as well. It is possible, but probably not too likely, that your child could be darker than your husband. It is also possible for your child to have green or blue eyes, or darker eyes if you and your husband have a recessant gene for brown eyes, or hazel, etc. Same goes for the hair (color and texture), although that might change over time anyway.

My grandmother was 1 of 11 kids (all from the same parents) and they all looked different - they ranged from dark skin, black hair, dark brown eyes to light skin, blonde hair, blue eyes, and everywhere in between. They were Mexican, and there were a lot of different recessive genes that came into play (especially with that many kids).

Congratulations, and I'm sure that whatever traits your baby has, he or she will be beautiful!

Answer 3

Your child will more likely have brown or green eyes. The trait for blue eyes is recessive ( both parents must have the recessive allele for it to keep the darker pigment from forming, but green is dominant over blue).

Your child could be as light as you and your husband, or as dark has his grandmother or in between. The mixture of traits is endless.

Your child could by some small odd chance have blond hair, but since blond hair is recessive, your child will most likely have dark hair. Dark hair is more dominant over fair hair.

I don't think your question is silly at all. My dad is in the medical field, and for each of his children, he did the Punnett square to try to guess what traits his children would have. I think it's a fun thing to do.

I once found a website online that you could play around to see what traits your children would have, but I cannot find it now. I did find this one site, however, that talks about all the characteristics your child can have.

Answer 4

There will definately be a lot of different variations.

You will more than likely contribute your blonde hair and blue eye genes, but his caribbean genes will easily trump your recessive genes. He will have to give only his genes from his father to match yours and make a blonde/blue eyed baby which isn't very likely (but could happen), the fact that he has green eyes means he has the green/blue gene so if he sends this with your blue than you may have a light eyed baby probably a very pretty color.
Odds are in favor that the baby will look a lot like daddy. But your husband has a very interesting mixture of genes in his pants that could play all kinds of ways.
Congratulations

Answer 5

When I lived in South Florida, I used to see a lot of mixed race people from Caribbean island countries. Many of them could almost pass for white since they had such light skin. I didn't see too many of them with blue eyes but a lot had light brown or green eyes. I believe your baby will start out with blue eyes but they will likely become more green as the child gets older.

Answer 6

It's hard to say. I have an aunt with blonde hair, blue eyes, and is very fair. Her husband is Hispanic with dark hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. Their 2 children are completely different. The son has blonde hair, blue eyes, and medium skin. The daughter has dark hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. So the rule about darker colors being more dominant wasn't true in this case.

Answer 7

Do you remember Mendel's peas from high school? Blue eyes are a recessive trait, meaning that you must have inherited a recessive gene from each parent. It is very apparent that you did, because you have blue eyes (indicated 'bb'). Your husband has green eyes, which are genetically brown with the pigment "turned off". Brown eyes are a dominant trait, meaning you need only one gene to exhibit that trait (have brown eyes). This is the unknown element here. He may have inherited 2 dominant brown genes (indicated as BB), or he may have inherited one dominant and one recessive (indicated as Bb). So here are the odds:

If he is BB, combined with your bb:


|__B__|__B__|
b|_Bb__|_ Bb__|
b|_Bb__|_Bb__| All brown/green no chance
for blue- except for your
grandchildren!

If he has both dominant and recessive:

|__B__|__b__|
b|_Bb__|__bb_|
b|_Bb__|__bb_| 50% chance of blue eyes!

Hair color, skin tone etc all work the same way. The problem with being able to figure out what your child will look like is that most traits aren't as simple as eye color (only two options) and you never know what combination you and your husband have!

Fantasizing about your little one is certainly NOT silly - its part of your bonding process! Indulge yourselves and enjoy!

Answer 8

I don't know anyone who is that mix....but I think that darker colors (eyes) are usually more dominate. I don't think that the skin color will be darker than your husband, because I have a friend who is white, her husband is half black/white, and their baby came out almost as white as her. The blond I don't know about. I don't think that he will have blond hair though. Just a hunch. But, most babies have lighter hair when they are born, that they grow out off. Like me and my husband.
We both had white blond hair until the age of two...then we both grew darker hair...

Answer 9

being that blue eyes are a recessive trait, be/she might end up with brown or green eyes. As for the light hair I am not sure.
I have dark red hair, my hubby has almost black hair and both of my kids have blonde hair and blue eyes. i have blue eyes and my hubby has hazel eyes.
My daughter is now 5 and her eyes are starting to change colors.
I think most babies are born with blue eyes, and they can change color until they are 7 years old.
Good Luck!

Answer 10

Your baby could end up anything from deep chocolate brown with black hair/brown eyes to fair skin with blonde hair/blue eyes. And anything in between , brunettes & even redheads would be possible.

No matter what it will be beautiful.

Genetics when it comes to a child's coloring is a crap shoot and you never know what genes get passed on and which ones don't. Here is a link to an interesting article about the possibilities of coloring:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=411953&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source

Congrats on your little one.