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[hobo_princess]

My 2 week old DS is half Chinese, but he has fair hair and his eyes are almost always closed, and he just doesn't look at all Asian at this point.

Did your Eurasian baby start out looking more like one race and change, or did they stay fairly similar to the way they were born?

I spent my whole pregnancy imagining a black-haired baby and it's taking me a while to get used to

[Indatree]

My 4 yo DS is also half Chinese and he doesn't look Eurasian at all. Never has even as a baby. I wasn't too shocked when he was born as his 2 cousins (DH and BIL are Australian born Chinese) don't look very Eurasian either. I have to admit that I thought the Asian genes were stronger though.

But then friends of ours have kids (Aus/Indonesian) who look really Eurasian.

Its interesting!

DH & I both have dead straight hair too and DS has curls - go figure. I think he gets them from my Dads side of the family.

[SnazzyFeral]

DS is 9 months and has strawberry blond hair and blue eyes. He looks so much like me its not funny (really the milkman comments are not funny at all anymore) he does have DP (filipino) smile.

[HRH Countrymel]

I don't have a Eurasian baby but I have a lot of friends who are either Eurasian themselves or have had a Eurasian baby.

All bar one (the exception to prove the rule?) have been very, very asian looking babies - bar the blue eyed, curly haired blonde!


I still remember my friend presenting her newborn son proudly, he was just the most perfectly adorable little Chinese baby and my DP saying "WOW he looks just like you!" and she saying "He looks like me in the eyes a bit but I think he looks just like *Dad*?"

We looked at his big boof headed googly eyed Dad and thought - "Nah..." but (as you do) went "Oh yes... yes, you are right!"

[a letter to Elise.]

DS definitely looks 50/50 to me. Sometimes he goes through phases where he looks more Asian, sometimes more Anglo.

The funny thing is that the Asian relatives ALWAY think he looks really Asian, and the Aussie side think he doesn't look very Asian at all.

I envisioned a little Asian baby with lots of black straight hair, and got a real surprise when he was born with light brown hair and fair skin. He has almond shaped eyes, but they are large with long dark eyelashes.

He is nearly 3 now, and his hair is now brown with a reddish tint, and is wavy - definitely not Asian hair! His eyes are brown, and his skin is still quite fair. He does look a lot like a paler version of DH though. Asians always can pick that he is half Chinese, whereas Caucasians aren't really sure, they just know that something is different about him. Can't wait to see what number 2 looks like!

[belindarama]

My boys are Anglo-Indian and are nothing like what we expected! Light olive skin, light brown eyes and blonde hair.

I am extremely pale so I guess that was the stronger gene!

Sometimes when DH is out alone with them people ask him if they are really his.

[Jenflea]

My cousin is blonde and her husband is half asian(not sure what though, but really handsome!) and her son was born with reddish hair and slightly asian brown eyes. Absolutely gorgeous, but his hair is a lot darker now.

[Pssst...]

My friend's baby is Eurasian and when she was born she looked exactly like Ernie from Sesame Street!!

[Its Percy]

I have some friends who are Sri Lankan and English. He is dark as the night and she is an English blonde rose.
Their son looks just like his mother but has his father's colouring. Their daughter has her fathers features but her mothers colouring. It's interesting to see genetics at work!

[tibs]

We have 2 and one looks pretty much non Asian, people are shocked to learn he is actually Eurasian, and the other looks 100% Asian, to the extent I get asked if she was adopted from China (by Chinese people).  My Asian looking child has been that way since babyhood and my non Asian looking child has become less and less Asian looking as time has gone on, although he was never very Asian looking to start with but did look a little Eurasian until he was around 18 months.

[ASoccerMum]

I would say my 3 yo looks Eurasian - most ppl can tell he's of mixed ethnicity. I think he looks more Asian now than when he was born. My 13 mo doesnt look Asian at all (to me anyway). He had blue eyes when he was born but they're now a hazel brown sort of colour. His hair was jet black when he was born, its now a mid-brown colour.

My husband reckons when the boys are asleep and you can't see their eye colour you wouldnt know they had Asian ancestry.

They both definitely look different to their 2 week old selves though!

At the park one day I saw a little Eurasian boy who was very fair and had blonde hair. So just goes to show genes can mix in unpredictable ways.

[lizzzard]

This thread is really interesting - I always thought the Asian gene (dark hair etc) was dominant so it was very unlikely for a Eurasian baby to be blonde...but it sounds like it isn't that unusual at all!

I have two kids - DH is Filipino and I am Anglo. Both looked very Asian when they were born, but are now more Eurasian looking  - both have darker skin and dark hair. DS is a bit fairer than DD, but his eyes are more Asian looking. As a blue-eyed blonde, my children were usually mistaken as being our nanny's children (who was, not coincidentally, Filipino!)...but I like to think they both have my face shape now and are more identifable as my little munchkins

[beautiful_life]

I am Filipino and DH is British. Our 2yr old DS has the same facial features as DH except he has my eyes (brown, although he was born with blue/gray). He looked like his Dad from the day he was born but there have been many times when I thought he looked more Asian.

Its funny. What we have observed is that most of our Asian family, friends and relatives comment how much DS looks like his Dad and our Caucasian family and friends keep saying how much he looks like me!

We have a 1 month old DD and right now she looks like my Mum (but with blue/gray eyes) to us and most people but my MIL says she looks like DH.

Go figure!

[missgeorgina]

I'm half Fijian half Japanese (biologically) and my husband is Aussie.  I have quite dark skin and frizzy hair (Fijian side) and don't really look that asian at all.  Both my daughters when they were born looked very asian, my second one more so than the first.  My second daughter had jet black hair and very asian eyes when she was born.  She's 1.5 years old and still looks quite Asian.  Both my daughters are very fair skinned and look nothing like me apart from the dark eyes!

[Tealdash]

I have a nephew who looks very asian with an aussie dad! You wouldnt pick that he is his!!

[little lion]

I don't know but I can't wait to find out in November!

[Tealdash]

I don't know but I can't wait to find out in November!

Woohoo! How exciting! Congratulations!!

[little lion]

Woohoo! How exciting! Congratulations!!

Thanks everyone is so curious to see what the baby will turn out like. Some relatives are even betting on red hair! It seems any combo is a possibility.

[Gumbette]

DD looked completely Asian when she was born (even more than me as I'm only 1/2), except that she had the curliest hair imaginable (both DH & I have dead straight hair), and it was a dark brown.

She's drifts from looking Asian to Aussie (dad's as aussie as can possibly be), and then back again.  The only thing that hasn't changed is the colour of her hair and the wave in it. When she's with DH she looks Aussie, when she's with me she looks Asian.

I can't wait to see if the next one has curly hair too - I find it totally peculiar.  (Actually I can't wait to see the next one period - I just want it to come out noooooow!).

[Snugglybirdie]

I am chinese and DH is dutch Aussie.  Our baby girl looks mix of both of us but more toward to my DH.  she has dark brown hair, fair procelain skin, bigdark brown eyes, daddy small lips.  what was suprised me is her nose.  I was imagining tall 'pinocchio' nose like daddy but she has tall but not skinny nose.  more asian but not flat.

so far i have people saying that she looks like her dad and some people saying she looks like me.  She has my face frame.. and when she is grumpy she looks like mummy lol..

People always tend to ask me if her daddy is caucasian.. while when DH hold her, no one ask him if her mummy is asian.

But I am glad that she looks like eurasian baby.  She is just so perfect.

[Haizi]

I am eurasian (Chinese dad, Irish mum) and looked eurasian as a baby, as I have grown up I look almost entirely western, only other Eurasians can pick me out. I have almost black hair and pale skin, and a Western nose.

I married an ethnically Chinese Aussie and our son (who is 75% ethnic Chinese) has almost red hair and brown-green eyes!

There are a few other kids in our area who have 75% Chinese ancestry 25% Western ancestry and their hair is red too.

We have theorized that it must be a throwback gene.

Anyway, in my experience, western genes tend to be stronger in looks.

[jules77]

I am 5th generation Australian with Danish descent and my DH is 1st generation Australian with an Italian Dad and a Thai Mum, so Eurasian himself.

When DS1 was born, he looked quite Asian, so not like me at all. He had very dark hair and lots of it as well as Asian facial features.

It was funny when the midwives doing their rounds looked at me and then looked at him and thought 'Huh!?!'

DS1 has changed now though and looks a lot more like me and has lost much of his Eurasian look.

DS2 has been the same - more Asian at birth but slowly changing, though he seems to be staying more like DH.

Edited by jules77, 12 June 2012 - 03:27 PM.

[bakesgirls]

I am eurasian, but I have always looked more Greek or Maltese. I look totally random compared to my parents. My husband is Anglo/Caucasian, and our kids still look to be Greek or Maltese as well. The only difference is their hair is much lighter. DD1 has brown hair with bits of blonde and  goldish streaks and bits of red. My other two have shades of brown differing from light brown to dark brown. They all have brown eyes.

[Chief Pancake Make]

Does it make any difference if the mother is Anglo and the father is Chinese or vice versa?

I have friends who say it does.

I am waiting to see what my Eurasian baby looks like - I am expecting lots of dark hair.  I have dark hair also, but was born with very little.

My Niece and nephew have a Chinese mum and anglo Dad.  The girl looked very asian when born and less so as she gets older, the son never looked very distinctively either.

What ever I get they will look like themselves - not knowing is half the fun.

[Logging out]

My DD is 25% Filipino she looks causation apart from the shape of her eyes. She has blonde hair and gray eyes with a little bit of green in the middle. I'd include a photo but I don't know how.