Pregnancy Links Of The Day
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Topic: Pregnancy Links Of The Day
Posted By: mamanee
Subject: Pregnancy Links Of The Day
Date Posted: 24 November 2006 at 5:09pm
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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.
http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html - 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. http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html - 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. http://www.breastfeeding.com/lighter.html - 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. |
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Posted By: sparkle
Date Posted: 24 November 2006 at 9:08pm
| The baby name one is fun. DH was typing in very random ones only he thought was funny!! |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 24 November 2006 at 9:24pm
| 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! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 24 November 2006 at 9:32pm
Very fun  But why, when I was born in '82, did my parents decide on 1960's names for me?!?! (Teresa Carla) My mum was only born in '61  -------------  |
Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 9:18am
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. 
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Bombshell wrote:Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 9:23am
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I am hoping....mine are brown with glint of green but DH has beautiful blue eyes....hope bubs takes after him with those...dark hair and blue eyes would be nice! Just like you - and BTW you are gorgeous!
Im pretty sure she will have dark hair....noone in family back three generations was blonde after a year old...but then red hair is recessive in our family...so who knows.. So am waiting to see what other sites u can find us...Im hopeless so have given up on trying myself..LOL |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 10:12am
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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) -------------  
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 12:10pm
It didn't work for me both my parents have grey/blue eyes and I have green and it said thats not possible
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 12:13pm
| 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! |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 2:20pm
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so lizzle maybe u need to keep going...only four more to go...LMAO!!!
Nah my eyes are pretty much brown - unless upset or angry and then they turn nearly green...weird I know! I am so hoping for a throw back! |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 3:21pm
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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. -------------
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 6:25pm
Apparently my kids are meant to have brown eyes (according to science but not that web site yet as im about to try it ) and my son came out with bright blue eyes!!!! and still has them 3 years later! my hubby has brown eyes and i have dark hazel so not sure where the blue came from as it is meant to be the least dominant colour!! just like his hair! - hes blonde as! and im brunette and hubby is dark red!! hes certainly a throw back!  lol
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 6:39pm
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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
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 12:09am
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whoa - only 290 babies in one million were called asia in 2005.. (i had to use the conventional spelling to get any results).. my girls IS unique - despite the fact that when i booked with my plunket nurse she said she'd had 3 other ayja's/asia/aisha book with her that week - oh and the birthday party we went to on the weekend there was a little girl the same age as Ayja.. also called Aisha.. pronounced the same.. was funny.
lol and Paris was widely used boys name ages ago.. and up until the 1980s.. lol.. oh this is fun. Michael feels special cos his name was #1 in the top 1000 names for so long. lol ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 8:34am
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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????
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 6:51pm
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My Nana has brown eyes my grandfather has grey/blue my mum has brown and so does my biological father, i have hazel eyes.
Hubbys parents have blue/green eyes and hubby has grey/green eyes. Ella has grey/green eyes with a yellow color in the centre just like her daddy! She went a bit bung eyed for this photo LOL 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 7:49pm
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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? ------------- |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 8:09pm
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Green is a seperate allele - the main 3 are brown, blue and green, with blue the least dominant. The green could come through either side and hazel is a really complicated genetic variance that doesn't fall into the simple model of inheriting 2 from each parent and probabilty calculations.
Chances are your dads alleles are blue, blue, green, brown. Mixed with your mums straight 4 blues, you can see that the liklihood of 4 blues inherited from that mix of 8 alleles is the highest, but all it takes is one green or brown with the blues to get green and brown eyes. And that is why there are 4 blue eyed siblings, 3 lucky green and 3 brown. -------------
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 8:42pm
| Its all so confusing! |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 9:07pm
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i,m real confussed it said i would have brown eye child james is bule with a ring of brown in the middle i have brown his father has bule and his granddad bule and nana has brown ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 27 November 2006 at 11:18am
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New Pregnancy Links. Mostly just weird news articles about babies though.
http://www.glumbert.com/media/womb - Living Easy In The Womb - Video of a baby at 8 weeks in the womb http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15879296/ - Chilean boy born with fetus in his stomach http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061124/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_canada_baby - Canadian man on trial for putting baby in freezer http://www.babygadget.net/2006/08/the_babykeeper.php - The Babykeeper - Hang your kids up while you pee! http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18959 - 9 Months of Pregnancy in 20 Seconds |
Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 27 November 2006 at 3:10pm
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Just found this great video! It shows 4D scans as early as 6 weeks and a cute one of a baby yawning at 30 weeks.
So cute!
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=c2269c65-79f4-4b1a-8820-9ea09953af3b&f=imbot_us_f_3549&fg=copy - 4D Scan video |