Pregnancy Links Of The Day

Just thought I would start this and each day add a few pregnancy/parenthood related links since I'm always on the lookout for something interesting.

What colour eyes will my children have? Find out here Turns out all my children will have blue eyes! Not sure where mine came from though since my parents have brown and green eyes.

Baby Name Voyager I have been playing with this a lot lately. It's a HUGE graph of names that changes as soon as you type a first letter of a name in. INSTANTLY find your favourite name and see it's popularity from the 1800s to 2005.

The lighter side of parenting: Funny stories and jokes This one is good to lift the spirits and give you a laugh in between peeing and puking (In my case)

Please add to the list if you want to! I know I love finding great links to pregnancy related stuff that differs from the ones that have the same old stuff in them.

well sounds like my kids are destined for brown eyes...there goes my hope of carrying on Dhs gorgeous blue eyes...LOL I knew mine were the dominant ones anyways!

Bombshell wrote: well sounds like my kids are destined for brown eyes...there goes my hope of carrying on Dhs gorgeous blue eyes...LOL I knew mine were the dominant ones anyways!

My mum has beautiful dark brown eyes, and my dad has green eyes, and I ended up with blue eyes!



Guess you never know sometimes.

Bombshell, if your brown eyes are made up of 2/4 blue and 2/4 brown, then you could have a blue eyed baby. It is just if you have any part brown that your eyes will be brown as it is dominant. If your eyes are 4/4 brown, then yup, you will have a brown eyed bubba - but there is no way of knowing till bubs is here! (That's why eomachine got her blue you see, there would have been recessive blue with both parents)

According to that, If I have 6 children (gulp), four will have bron eyes, one blue and one green. So far, two nearly black eyed boys!

Sorry bombshell, I mean that basic genetics means that eye colour is (very loosely) determined by 4 parts, 2 parts come from each parent. Your DH, having blue eyes (blue is recessive so his 4 parts need to be all blue to actually have blue eyes) pretty much means that his 2 parts he passes on to the child will be blue (so, blue, blue)

Your eyes are made up of 4 parts from your parents. Being brown, they only need one of your 4 parts to be brown, as it is the dominant colour. So, no matter what colour your parents eyes are, your eyes could possibly be made up of Brown, blue, blue, blue (there could be a green in there, not 100% sure how strong it is, but I think Brown beats green).

Therefore, if that is your makeup, you could pass on blue, blue to your child, making them have eyes that are made up of blue, blue, blue, blue. If you pass on any brown, then the child will have brown eyes.

Is that clearer how it works?

Anyway, there are other factors that influence it - like for one quirk of genentics it is possible for 2 blue eyed parents to have brown eyed kids sometimes, plus other combinations like hazel etc don't fit into this basic model. But, at a very basic level, that is how genetic eye colour works.

HHMMM interesting - it says i only have a 4% chance of having a blue eyes and a 7?% chance of having a brown eyes so my son is very rare! lol

yeah isnt Paris quite a common male name in greece and in mythology? Let me just say bubs wont be names Paris cause it rhymes with DHs surname so no go there!

Will let y'all know in three months or so what eyes we end up with - maybe blue to start with and then????

Okay so just done this test and my eyes are green (mum blue, dad brown), DH's are blue (blue, blue)... so we get 50/50 blue eyed kids and green eyed kids which is true so far

But then I tried it on mum and dad. So mum is blue (blue, blue) and dad is brown (blue, brown) and it reckons 4 browns and 2 blues per 6 kids. Well Mum and Dad have 10 kids: 3 green, 4 blue, 3 hazel/brown... so that's way wrong! Why doesn't it mix blue and brown to get green?

Its all so confusing!