https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 07:45:53 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one/page/2#post-230296 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:02:52 +0000 daniellemybelle 230296@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm biracial - my dad is Cuban and my mom is white. My mom said when she was pregnant with me, she dreamed that they brought her this huge white baby in the hospital, and she was like, "I KNOW that's not my baby!"</p> <p>DH is African-American, and I'm so excited to see what our kids look like. Most 1/2 AA kids look pretty black, and the fact that I have ethnic features (dark curly hair, olive skin) will probably emphasize that. But who knows! I love seeing little biracial or AA kids and imagining if our kids will look like that. But I sometimes think of our kids in a generic sense and imagine them white, oddly enough! Sadly, I think white is just the default race for all of us, so our brain just assumes it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one/page/2#post-230016 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:58:59 +0000 gracecat 230016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband is half Japanese, half British and I'm Korean, so I think our baby will just look 100% Asian and people won't really be able to tell which Asian ethnicity they are but their last name will be very British! Love the confusion. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one/page/2#post-230008 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:24:46 +0000 SugarplumsMom 230008@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NYCaliMama: Thanks! We are such proud parents ^^. </p> <p>@Coco Bee: Funny thing is, most ppl don't seem to think I look Filipino. My mom definitely has that quasi-hispanic look, but my Asian side shows through a bit more.</p> <p>As for babies looking more Asian at birth, I think Mrs. Bee is right. My little dumpling's eyes are starting to look less Asian. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one/page/2#post-229969 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:24:03 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 229969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Coco Bee: Up until Mr Jacks, I had only dated Asian or brown folks. In college people used to call me an egg... White on the outside, yellow on the inside. I think it comes from the fact that my upbringing was very much like having immigrant parents :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one/page/2#post-229966 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:05:27 +0000 Mrs. Pen 229966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: you thought you would because you love Asians?</p> <p>Well the same with me, I thought I would marry a black or latino man. hahaha my DH laughs at me whenever I joke about it. He is Socttish/Irish instead ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one/page/2#post-229954 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:39:02 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 229954@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Sunglasses: I always thought I would marry Asian, but turns out some white British type dude was the one for me! (You actually couldn't find a more white guy if you tried!) We're so lucky that we still got our mixed baby! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one/page/2#post-229910 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:26:39 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 229910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have to admit I sometimes wish I had some part asian in me. They make for the cutest babies EVAH!!!!! Seriously. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one/page/2#post-229908 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:20:55 +0000 Mrs. Pen 229908@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Crumbs: sooo precious! I think I told you this but I &lt;heart&gt; Filipinos!! haha!! You ladies are sooo gorgeous. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one/page/2#post-229894 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:45:02 +0000 SAHM0811 229894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Crumbs: she's so gorgeous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229892 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:42:34 +0000 mrbee 229892@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Cowgirl: Thanks so much!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229891 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:41:35 +0000 Mrs. Cowgirl 229891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>here's my little sweet niece again :) </p> [attach=1158/12/m7jdxc.600x449.599174_3982468801257_1757682171_n.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229887 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:32:24 +0000 mrbee 229887@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjyw: @Mrs. Yoyo: @Mrs. Cowgirl: Hey guys! Ran into a snag with the photo upload beta... can you try uploading the photos again? Just want to make sure that photo uploads are working now! Thanks!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229657 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:55:55 +0000 BSB 229657@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: Yeah, I agree. All of my nieces and nephews all look more Asian when they are born. They look more white as they grow up. They don't look completely white. They definitely look mixed.<br /> @leelee: I'm exactly like you except that I'm not pregnant yet. I also think that my LO will get my brown eyes and black hair because it's dominant. I would love it, if my LO got my DH's blue eyes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229604 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:36:47 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 229604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.B: Isn't it kind of sad that their features get so diluted when they are 1/4 AA? I thought M. would look more AA too. You only really get a hint of it. The rest is all Asian and Native. She doesn't look white, but nobody really knows what she is. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229545 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:37:03 +0000 rawrasaur 229545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I picture absolute cuteness. I expect my lo to have Asian dominant features and then my skin tone (I'm super pale), but the specific overall look I can't picture. I'm still holding out that it has my eye color (blue-grey). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229537 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:42:30 +0000 Rubies 229537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This might not count at all but I'm Korean and my husband is Chinese (what a difference, huh?). Obviously, my daughter looks Asian but many people says she looks Korean. Sometimes I forget she's half-Chinese...I always think she's Korean. LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229536 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:36:29 +0000 Mrs.B 229536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am Caucasion and DS's biological father is African American. The entire time I was pregnant I pictured having a curly haired mocha baby but nope DS came out looking almost chinese? Now he just looks white. He has darker skin then I do but he does not look mixed. He also has light brown fine hair with no curl at all. He is almost 4 so I think he is going to stay looking like a white boy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229516 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:58:48 +0000 SugarplumsMom 229516@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For some reason, I always had in my mind a little girl with light wavy hair but I couldn't imagine any other features. While I was pregnant, I would look up pictures of mixed babies out of curiosity and even did one of those face morph things before I got pregnant (it didn't turn out too well)! Haha! </p> <p>When my LO was born, I was in shock (not just taken by the moment) but because she doesn't look like what I pictured. It's odd saying that because I couldn't picture her but I guess I thought she'd look a lot like her daddy because I read somewhere that if a 1st child is a girl, there's a higher chance to look like the dad than the mom. I'm Filipino and hubs is Swedish. </p> <p>Here she is less than a day old.<br /> <a title='ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting' href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/em1cl.jpg/'><img src='http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/2275/em1cl.jpg' /></a></p> <p>8 days old<br /> <a title='ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting' href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/837/em2jf.jpg/'><img src='http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/750/em2jf.jpg' /></a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229492 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:35:17 +0000 HabesBabe 229492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Yoyo: AHHHHH I flipping love Baby Yoyo! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229391 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:29:01 +0000 mynoahbear 229391@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LO is half Asian but she takes after DH and looks white. She doesn't look Asian at all, even since birth. She's DH's mini me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229355 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:22:22 +0000 sandy 229355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 1/2 Asian and white and she takes after her Dad...I thought my Asian genes would dominate but she has all of his features including his dark blue eyes </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229084 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:23:27 +0000 mrsjyw 229084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsMamaBear: hehe yea... i don't like posting a ton of pics of him online since he's not keen on internet sharing, but he def looks mixed himself~</p> <p>@chopsuey119: i can't hardly wait! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-229077 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:17:13 +0000 kimbed 229077@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree, 1/2 asian babies definitely look more asian when they are born. I did, but now people tend to think I look hispanic more than anything else. As a 1/4 Chinese, my DS looked a bit asian when he was born, but now, not so much! He still tends to favor my looks over my husband's though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-228989 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:32:39 +0000 mrskc 228989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Yoyo: he is soooo cute! I definitely see what you mean about him changing as he's gotten older. That's good idea to look at DH's baby photos. Might help me visualize a little more realistically of what our LO might look like. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-228902 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:43:41 +0000 MsMamaBear 228902@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjyw: Wow, I thought your husband was Asian from your avatar! He looks like a friend of mine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-228865 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:19:49 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 228865@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a really hard time picturing what our LO would look like when I was pregnant. Then I saw some baby pictures of DH and started to envision that. What @Mrs. Bee said is certainly true, though .... Baby Y started out looking super Asian and now, at 13 months, he definitely is looking more Caucasian. His hair is really light now, almost auburn in the sun, exactly like mine.</p> <p>&lt;attach=0/12/m7h1l4.597x800.IMG_0140.JPG&gt;</p> <p>&lt;attach=0/12/m7h1l6.600x398.DSC01360.JPG&gt; </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-228783 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:30:14 +0000 regberadaisy 228783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@leelee: omgod I'm so jealous! I'm hoping M gets my husband's eye colors! Blue, green or gray! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-228782 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:28:11 +0000 Clementine 228782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my nephews are 1/2 Korean and German/French, but one def could pass as being Caucasian and the other def looks more mixed. Your second child could look very diff from your first. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-228779 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:26:27 +0000 leelee 228779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm 100% vietnamese, DH is German/Irish. DD is 3 weeks and everyone says she looks just like daddy. When I was pregnant I assumed she would look like me since I have all the dominant genes. I love that she looks like daddy, I just hope it sticks, she had gray-blue eyes right now :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-with-mixed-race-babies-or-pregnant-with-one#post-228769 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:20:47 +0000 Mrs. Pen 228769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're not a bi-racial family (boo... wish we were tho!! lol), but my sister is. Her husband is 100% Peruvian and she is a mix of European heritage; mostly German, English and Norwegian.<br /> He definitely looks more Peruvian - though not as much as he.<br /> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150969367968674&#038;set=a.426742138673.205787.7979063673&#038;type=3&#038;theater" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150969367968674&#038;set=a.426742138673.205787.7979063673&#038;type=3&#038;theater</a> </p>