Do you know what your children might look like/will there be more boy's or girls?

Based on your and your partner’s gene’s. (So this is if you have a boyfriend or husband.) Also is there a history of multiples in you family? Would you be happy if you ended up with either all/mostly girls or boys? Personally i want more girls.

BQ. Also do you think that if i married a fair skinned man that my baby might have olive skin? because my father has olive skin but all his children have blue eyes and fair skin.

:frowning: Ok i’ll just do one myself…

Well my boyfriend has green eyes, me blue, there’s various shades of brown hair in our family’s and he has two brother’s. But most of all there are no major health problem’s on either side that i know of!!! yah!

My children with my OH will most likely have blue eyes. I have very dark blue eyes and he has light blue/grey eyes. I say mostly because genetics are weird. With nearsightedness being a dominant trait my children will most likely need glasses despite their father’s 19/20 vision. Theoretically their hair would be curly like mine but it could be straight like OH’s.
Hair color I have no idea. OH is a brunette, his mom is blonde and his father a redhead and all of his siblings are blonde or strawberry blonde. My hair started out extremely blonde and is becoming brown. My mother has auburn hair and my dad’s hair did the blonde to brown like mine. So theoretically there’s a 0-25% chance of them having red hair, a 25-50% chance of them being blonde and a 50% chance of them having brown hair.
There’s a website called morphthing.com that allows you to upload photos and see what the child of those two people could look like.

I have a rough idea of what our future kiddos will look like based on our daughter. She has greeny-brown eyes (it depends on the day, lately they look more brown than green) and light blonde wavy hair. It was curly as a baby but it has lost its natural curl over time, so now its merely a wavy kink compared to the ringlets she once had.
She has reasonably sallow skin, and tans very well in the sun without burning. She has a few light freckles on her temples and across her nose. She inherited my one dimple (sorry kid) which I think looks awful on me but endearing on her.
Also from me, she got my height and build. She’s short and petite.

I have twin cousins on my mom’s side but there are no multiples as far as I know on my DH’s side. I think twins would be sweet, but a lot of hard work, so while I would be thrilled if I had twins in the future, I’m not desperate enough to have a multiple pregnancy that I’d get IVF or anything. I would prefer to have singletons, for selfish reasons such as cost, a more difficult pregnancy, twice as much work when they are small, juggling two babies etc. but if I did ever naturally have twins I would be thrilled.

As for genders I don’t have any bias towards boys or girls, and while I’d like to experience parenting both boys and girls I wouldn’t be disappointed to end up with all boys or all girls.

I have no idea. Mainly because I’m a teenager, and I don’t have a boyfriend. I’m not sure what my kids would look like, but I could possibly make a guess at whether I’d have more boys than girls, or vice versa. My mom has 2 sisters and no brothers, and my dad has 1 brothers and no sisters, and I have 2 brothers and no sisters. My mom’s dad had 2 brothers and 1 sisters, and my mom’s mom had 2 sisters, no brothers. My dad’s dad had 1 sister, and my dad’s mom had all brothers. So, I’m assuming I’d have more boys, which is what I want. I probably wouldn’t have all boys, though. There are no twins in my family, which I don’t like, because I want twins. lol

Well, it’s not easy to predict. My family is nearly all blonde, blue eyed people with the exception of my one granny who I’ve inherited my colouring from. My boyfriend is very fair, light blue eyes, blonde wavy hair and pale skin. His family albums is almost blinding due to the blondeness. Lots of curls on both sides. So I thought [name]Rosalind[/name] would be pale, blue eyed and blonde, but nope; she’s got almost black hair, brown eyes and olive-ish skin. A mini me, but darker. She’s still only 5 1/2 weeks, but I think her colours will stick. As for other genetic things; I assume she’ll be my height (boyfriend is same height as the men in my family, and the women in his are the same as me) and slim. Curls would be fun, at least some waves in her hair. The interesting thing now is to see how it will go next time; I hope for a little curly blonde child for the fun of it. As for it being more likely if I have more girls or boys… ALL my boyfriend’s brothers have only sons (9 combined) and it’s been only boys born on his father’s side for five generations I think (as in; his father only had boys, his father’s father and back like that), so I thought I’d have a boy too. But she was a girl! Now my soon to be father-in-law says all the girl genes have been stored up in my boyfriend and we’ll have all girls. We’ll see!
I don’t really care if I’ll have a boy or a girl next time, but being a girl-mum at the moment I have a hard time picturing myself with a little boy. And girls are so much fun! I like little boys too, but I think I’m more suited as a girl mummy.

No multiples in my family, thank goodness! I’ve never been one to dream about twins, and I hope I’ll never experience it. Not because twins are terrible, but I imagine a tougher pregnancy and more risk. And as I want my children pretty close together I’d have to get a triple-buggy, and I’ve never seen a cute one!

My jaw and lips come from my dad’s side of the family as my cousin [name]Laura[/name] has the same smile but the rest of me belongs to my mum’s side. There’s a photo of my mum and aunt from the seventies that terrifies my cousin [name]Helena[/name] and I as it looks like we’ve been transported back in time x_x People constantly comment on us all looking so much alike.

My great granny [name]Edith[/name] had dark brown curls and mum and I inherited her hair, albeit in a lighter ash brown shade. Looking at the old Edwardian photos I know all the girls were around my height and they’re all as slim as me. My hands and arms are great grannys too. As far I can tell most had our green-blue eyes but it’s hard to tell in black and white pics. In general though I think I look a lot more like great aunt [name]Eva[/name] (great grannys sister) whose photo is my avatar :slight_smile:

My great granddad had ginger hair and my own grandma inherited that so I’m fairly certain - with my freckles and pale skin tone - that I carry the red haired gene and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I had kids with red hair.

According to grandma, great granny had two sets of twins who didn’t survive so twins supposedly run on her side of the family.

No idea what my future kids will look like, but I hope any daughters escape the curse of curly hair!

My family albums resemble ottilie’s boyfriend’s: Blondapalooza. We’re all extremely fair, tow-headed and blue-eyed, though a few of us come in strawberry blond flavors.

So when I married a swarthy Arab (heh heh heh), whose family all have dark curls, olive skin and dark eyes stretching back millennia (unless there was a Crusader in the woodpile or something), we expected a little one with medium brown hair, dark eyes, and an intermediate skin tone.

Instead we got this milk-white little ginger with grey eyes. I think it’s honestly a genetic fluke; I expect #2 to be as described above.

Fellow Curly! Totally with you here, but my great-great grandmother, great grandmother, grandmother, mother and I all literally have the same wild curly head of hair. I have a picture of the five of us at the same ages and we could be sisters. My mom’s genes are very strong.

The future hubs (ahh less than three months) and I will probably have caramel colored, wild curly haired, brown eyed crazy babies!
Can’t wait!

My boyfriend and I both have blonde hair and blue eyes. His are light blue but mine change between blue/turquoise/green/gray and they always have a golden circle around the pupil soooo i’m hoping my kids get my eyes :slight_smile: But, my mother had brown hair and green eyes and my father had almost black hair and brown eyes. They had 4 kids: a thick hair/fair skinned redhead with green eyes, a nearly black/THIN hair with brown eyes, a light brown with grey/green eyes, and me. So I think that are kids could come out with any color, shape, and eyes.

Peeps in my family tend to go two ways hair-wise: dark brown & ringlets or blonde & straight. And all the boys go bald :stuck_out_tongue:

We’re fairly mole-y, none of us are pale and there’s not a brown eye in sight. I reckon we’ve got very strong genes so possible future kids would most likely look like my side :slight_smile:

As for multiples, there are at least 4 incidences of twins on one side of the family, and 2 on the other. Slightly disconcerting.

My eyes exactly, lol.

Not a clue really.
DH’s family all have pale blue eyes and light hair. My family is a total grab-bag, so many different backgrounds that nobody really looks like anybody else. I have dark hair and green eyes, but my mother is a blonde with brown eyes. All I know is that our children will almost certainly be skinny with curly hair, everything else could go several ways. I kind of love the idea that if we have multiple children they could each look completely different.

I have a couple sets of multiples on my side, but not enough to make me think it runs in the family.

I have four girls and I’m not too surprised by this. There are many, many girls on my side of the family. I have straight dark blond hair, pale skin, brown eyes. My husband has an olive complexion, dark hair, hazel eyes. It’s hard to tell the difference between my daughter’s complexions until they get some sun but the genes seem to have spilt 50/50. My oldest two tan very easily. My 3rd daughter is pale, blond, and burns easily. I think she would look even blonder if she lived in an area that got more sun. I think my youngest will take after me but she hasn’t seen much sun yet. They all have brown eyes. The biggest surprise was my 2nd daughter with her very curly hair. Most of my daughters have a mix of wavy or straight hair. I’m pretty sure my 2nd daughters inherited her curls from someone on my husband’s side of the family but I’m not completely sure where they came from.

Despite these differences, they all look very much alike. Like sisters.

Edited to add: They are all very petite like me too. Four tiny girls.

I’m too lazy to really guess what my kids will look like, so I used Morph Thing. For some reason all of them are blond(e) and appear to have blue eyes, which is unlikely (some: possible; all: unlikely), since I have brown hair and brown eyes. SO has blond hair (he claims it’s “mousy brown,” but his state ID has him as officially blond, as the DMV lady and I agreed his hair is not brown) and blue eyes, though, and there’s some of that in my family, too: dad and his parents and mom’s mom all have blue eyes (again, though, there’s contention: dad and grandma have apparently both tried to claim that they have “hazel” eyes; dad’s are definitely blue, and I’ll just have to take my mom’s word for it that my grandma is wrong, too). Anyway, here are my children:

Kids will likely be shortish, as I’m 5’ and SO is 5’9’’-5’10’’. I contribute the possibility of freckles, while SO contributes dimples and a widow’s peak. There are some serious curls on my side (interestingly, mostly among the males: my brother & both of my dad’s brothers), though my hair tends more on the wavy side, and SO’s family mostly has pin-straight hair…except for his dad, who also has crazy curls. My mom told me once that she was sure she’d have a kid with red hair, since her grandma came from a family full of redheads (there were six or seven kids, I think). She didn’t, but my hair does have red tones in it and I’ve been mistaken for a redhead before, so I guess there’s a remote possibility of red hair in there, too.

I’m hoping for an equal number of boys and girls: two of each. My parents only have brothers - dad has two, mom had one. Three of my grandparents had one brother and one sister, while the remaining grandpa had two sisters and a brother. SO and I both have one sibling of the opposite gender. His mom has three sisters, a brother, and a half-sister, and…I have no idea about his dad, actually. At least one brother and one sister, I think. There’s no history of multiples in my family, but I think there are some twins on SO’s side. His mom enjoys psychically intuiting major life events (like, half-seriously) and has told him that she “feels” he’s going to have twins one day.

  • Re: your BQ - I can only offer my own familial anecdote, which is that both of my parents are fair-skinned, I’m fair-skinned, and my brother has olive skin. My grandpa (mom’s dad) was half Welsh and had olive skin.

It’s kind of easy for me to guess my children’s traits.
My husband has dark blonde, wavy hair and brown eyes. My hair is naturally an ashy-blonde and pin straight and I have greenish-blue eyes. So we will most likely have blondes, but eye color will be tricky. I know that brown is a dominant gene, but on both sides our genetics are halved. My husband and his father and his father’s father all have brown eyes, while his mom and her mom both had blue and same goes for my side (my mother is one of seven children and they all have blue eyes) so I think it will be a toss up. But I hope that I have at least one child with my eye color :slight_smile:
My children will also most likely be tall and lean, both of our families have these traits. But then again, genes are strange… who knows, right? :slight_smile:

My husband has sandy brown hair and is fair with hazel-green (gorgeous) eyes. He is darker than me but only because he spends way more time in the sun. He has strands of red in his beard - some of the hairs look like copper filament growing out of him, they are so bright red! His paternal aunt was a redhead and a twin (her fraternal twin sister died in infancy) so gingers and twins run on his side.

As for me - I have a fair mother and a dark (part American [name]Indian[/name]) father. But I am even lighter than my mom. I am milk-pale with dark blonde to light brown hair. ([name]Haven[/name]'t seem my natural color in a while. Thanks, henna!) My eyes are blue-green.

I see our baby with blue-green or green eyes, and blonde, strawberry blonde or red hair, darkening to light brown later if it’s blonde. I don’t see how s/he won’t be fair-skinned. But probably darker than me considering my husband will drag him or her outside all the time. His hair is stick straight, mine is curly, so that’s a toss-up. He is average height, I am slightly above average, so I figure average or just above.

I have fraternal twin brothers and I’m on Clomid, so I suppose multiples are a possibility too. Twins are very fun. Definitely a bit more dangerous and way more work, but what a pay-off. :slight_smile:

I have a widow’s peak and some freckles. I have huge slightly almond-shaped eyes, his have Asiatic folds. He had an overbite corrected with braces, I have really pointed canine teeth. There’s just no telling. I hope s/he gets all the good stuff and very little of the bad.

We both are muscular with very strong legs. Both of us are Scots-Irish mutts with a lot of other stuff thrown in. Rebellious in our youth, voracious readers, stubborn, opinionated, a bit weird. We’re in for it. :slight_smile:

As for gender, my mom had 3 boys and 1 girl. My dad had 2 girls and one boy. My younger brother has one girl and they miscarried one girl. It’s tough to say. I have a feeling that my first will be a boy. I’ve always had that feeling but I don’t know why. And honestly I’d adore to have one (or preferably two!) of each, but at this point one healthy baby of either gender seems like such a beautiful and magical thing that asking for more than one is like asking for two doors into Heaven. Just the one for now, LOL.

Omg me too!!! Is there a name for this?! I’ve never met anyone who had that. My husband stares at my gold ring when we’re really close. He think it’s so cool.

My dad has sort of dark blue-green eyes. My mom has gorgeous hazel green with flecks of gold and caramel and such. So I always thought that specific combo gave me my weird eyes.

I don’t have a boyfriend either, but here is my family:
My mom’s family is all fair, blonde, and blue eyed, but my mom for some reason has medium-dark brown hair. There are some really short people and some really tall people. My mom is 5’6’’. My dad’s family is all short (though there are some tall ones as well) and olive skinned, with thick, straight black hair and dark brown eyes, but my dad has this gorgeous, full head of curly black hair. Nobody goes bald in that family :wink:

My brother and I are a sort of mix between the two, but each of us are leaning towards the two different sides. My brother is shortish and has dark brown hair and hazel eyes, but fairly pale skin, so he more or less fits in with my mom’s family as some of her cousins and such have darker hair. But I, on the other hand, have super thick, wavy dark-brown-practically-black hair, olive skin, and hazelly green eyes that look weirdly light with the rest of my colouring. Actually, I have been told that in some lighting, my eyes are the same colour as the [name]Cullen[/name] Vampires from Twilight (I’ve never watched it so I don’t know). Anyway, I look really out of place at my mom’s family reunions, although I have similar facial features to some of them.

I can’t see myself having a blonde child, though I suppose their might be some kind of throwback to my mom. There are twins on both sides of my family, and I would actually quite like to have twins, so I’m hoping. :slight_smile:

That’s three of us now! Lol.