Raising a Biracial Child

Im new to the bored.

I have kinda of a long and interesting story....

My DH and I are both white and together we have 2 white sons.

DH and I seperated for awhile due to some personal problems, while seperated I dated an African American man, even with birthcontrol and condems, I got pregnant.

DH and I decided to get back together, after I had already told him about the baby...He was a little shocked, but said he wanted to raise the baby as his own. He said the color of the baby doesnt mean anything to him and DNA doesnt pick if you love someone or not...he rubs my belly and proudly tells everyone he is having a 3rd child.

We recently found out its a little girl, we are both through the roof!

The only problem is, he keeps asking me what she will look like...I honestly dont know what to tell him.

He is also afraid he wont know what to do with her hair...I also dont know what to tell him about that....because im a little worried about that too.

Anyone wanna help us out??

Thanks!!

 

 

 

          

I might be able to help a little. My daughter's half white (me) and half filipino. As of right now she looks nothing like her dad. People assume she's white. I have to tell people she's not 100% white. All of her siblings are in the picture below. I think it's great that your DH wants this new baby girl. Laila's dad doesn't want her. But that's another story. She'll be such a pretty little girl.    Kendra  8o) 

(mine) Logan, Keeley, Kyra (his) Englis, Nick (ours) Laila Diane July 24   

  

 

Welcome to the board.

Not sure how to answer that question since having a child with parents of the same race is a mystery ("will she have my father's hair color?", "will she look like me?"

so having a child of 2 or more heritages is like adding a little more spice to the mystery because there isn't a formula that you can go to know know where she will fall in the spectrum.

A biracial child of white and black- may look white (like Jessica Szohr from "Gossip Girl" or Rashida Jones from "Park and Recreaction" (NBC) and "I Love You Man" ) or may be on the tan side like Halle Berry.

As far as her hair goes which seems to be the concern- don't worry about it and don't over do it with the products and by the  time your daughter will be worrying about her hair- she'll know what to do.

If you do want to read up on hair, you can but honestly you won't know what you get until she's a few years old.

I'm black but my daughter is half German and inherited her dad's spikey straight hair- she's only 3 months old and at first I had not idea what to do with her hair- I just let it be and brush it- whatever stayed down stayed and whatever spiked up - I called it "personality" if anyone had a comment.

Main point is:

It's a wait and see game, but in the meantime cuddle her with love and all else will fall into place.

   

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