We kept it to ourselves for a while, but soon told our family and friends. As I inevitably expanded, I was asked the inevitable question: Will your baby be a redhead too? Coworkers joked about it. Family members hoped for it.
Random people at the grocery store thought it would be terrific. Naturally all my husband and I prayed for was a healthy child. Firstly I would like to say that as a geneticist I can tell you that the spawn of 2 red headed parenrs would almost certainly suffer the same 'fate'; secondly as an attractive woman I would like to add that out of all the hair colours I have sported throughout my life, including blonde, my natural shade has attracted the most attention, jealousy and admirers.
Personally I have a bit of a 'thing' for the ginger girls. May your children and your children's children's children carry the flag! Kyle, Woking UK The only people I have ever met that were glad to go grey or bald were those who had ginger hair when they were young. It is almost certain that you will produce ginger sprogs, so I suggest that when you do, you shave their heads or dye them grey to give them a head start with their preferred looks. Hugh Jarse, Sidcup England Please, please, please wear a condom.
Helen, Cheshunt Hertfordshire According to my superstitious mother, if you pour out tea from a pot that's been brewed by someone else, you will be blessed with ginger twins. So why take the genetic lottery when you can make sure in a simple and refreshing way that your kids will be coppertops? For a child to be born with red hair which IS a recessive gene , each parents must have 2 red alleles each.
If say, the mother had one red allele and one brown, and it was the same for the father, then the child would be born with brown hair, because the brown gene is dominant. So for red hair to come through, both parents muct have both alleles as RED. Erin, Staffordshire England I suggest that you perform an empirical test by producing sufficient children in order to get some idea of the distribution of hair colours.
Having forty or fifty kids would be a good start the more the better as far as statistical tests are concerned. Jake, Davis USA Moving the subject on slightly, I have just had a baby and there appears to be a hint of red in her hair.
What is the likely hood of her being ginger? I have dark brown hair that shines red and my husband has mousey-coloured hair. There are no ginger bobs in the family that I am aware. Suzanne, Oxfordshire There is nothing wrong with being ginger. I don't get everybody's problem. I have ginger hair myself i was bullied at school and felt forced to dye my hair.
There isn't many ginger haired people. That's why everyone takes the piss- because we're different and everyone else is the same.
Jacqui , Hair colour is dependent on 2 pigments: Eumelanin and pheomelanin. The less eumelanin you have, the more blond you are. The more eumelanin you have then the darker your hair is. The so called "red element" that people talk about is dependent on the amount of pheomelanin you have. In Ireland, an estimated 10 percent of the population has red hair, though about 40 percent of the Irish carry the recessive gene.
In Scotland and England, 13 percent and 6 percent, respectively, are redheaded, according to the Daily Mail. Follow LiveScience on Twitter livescience. Live Science. Redheads are thought to be more sensitive to pain, too, research shows. Plus, they may require more anesthetic during surgery or local anesthesia. Freckles are a result of genetics and too much sun exposure. Find out why they appear and what to do if you don't want them. White hair is characteristic of aging, but colorless hair strands can appear at any age — even while you're still in high school or college.
There are ways to temporarily change your eye color, but can you change it permanently? Here's what you need to know. Curly hair is determined by factors you inherit from your biological parents. Here's how it works. Health Conditions Discover Plan Connect. Medically reviewed by Karen Gill, M.
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