Mucus Plug - SICK
Mommy2Isabella wrote: Well, I started to loose the mucus plug earlier today. I have been having contractions but that seems like nothing new around here anyway. They have increased in intensity since they started but no regular pattern.
The midwife said lets hold on for 6 more days ... < when I am allowed by state Regs. to have a homebirth. So that is what I am hoping for ... 6 more days and then OUT BABY OUT vibes will be needed.
So, if you are up to it ... I could use some STAY PUT FOR 6 MORE DAYS vibes ... 
bawoodsmall replied: here they come.------------------- those were vibes in case you couldnt tell.
Calimama replied: How far along will you be in 6 days? 36 weeks?
CantWait replied: WOW I didn't realize that you had to be so far along in order to have a "legal" homebirth.
Here's some STAY PUT for 6 MORE DAYS  vibes.
Mommy2Isabella replied: In 6 days I will be 37 weeks ...
Calimama replied:
Wow that happened quickly!! I'm excited to see pictures, I wonder if he'll be red head too!! 
Mommy2Isabella replied: DH and I were talking about how quickly this PG has gone by ...
I hope he isn't a red head... lol the odds of that are VERY VERY slim ... however, I just want him to be healthy which ... I am sure he will be!
The midwife said he is about 6lbs and that was on wednesday !! We will see
Calimama replied:
 Why not!? Red headed babies are ADORABLE!! Were you red headed when you were little?
Mommy2Isabella replied: As adorable as they are if he has a temper ANYTHING close to his sisters, I will need to be commited!!!
LOL!! Nope I didn't have red hair ever ... lol, I have a RED tint to my hair when the light hits it just right. LOL Her hair is starting to turn brownish though, like she will have auburn hair!!!
I think he is going to have DARK hair and DARK eyes ... the italian look .. thats what I am hoping for anyway!! I would LOVE for him to have an olive complexion.
LOL!! All my aspirations for this child ... hahaha !!
Cece00 replied:
Hey, you never know...I always wanted a blonde/blue eyed kid b/c I have dark hair & dark eyes, and I also wanted a dark hair/blue eye kid...
Well, Natalie was born dark hair & blue eyes, and I am sure her hair will darken again as she gets older (its dirty blonde now, but Ross used to have WHITE blonde hair & its slightly lighter than hers, so I am sure it will darken in time)
and Ross has blonde hair & blue eyes...
So dreams do come true
Calimama replied:
Too funny! I always wanted a dark haired, dark eyed little girl and I got it! My mom really wants a green eyed grandchild.. but I'm thinking that's not happening.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: There's green, blue and gray eyes in my family, as well as red and blonde hair, and there's blue eyes and blonde hair in dh's family.
I was hoping to have a blonde blue eyed baby... but oh well.
luvmykids replied: I assumed our kids would have our eyes and hair...and they do It never even crossed my mind that they would be anything BUT fair skinned, blue eyed and blonde 
GL Jess, hope he stays put for you.
MoonMama replied: ~~~~~~~~stay put for 6 more days little guy~~~~~~~~
GL and keep us posted. 
Danalana replied: Wow, it won't be long...and I still can't believe you're only 4 weeks ahead of me. I keep thinking it's 6!
I always imagine what Kade will look like. DH had white hair all the way until at least the beginning of high school, and I had very blond hair when I was little. My hair is now light to medium brown and his is dirty blond. We both have blue eyes...his brother and parents have blue eyes. My mother had blue, but my father has green/hazel. My grandfather on my mother's side had brown eyes and also had some Indian in him. I tan very easily and DH will get a little dark, but doesn't really tan. So, who knows what our baby will be like... I can't wait to see him though!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
light to medium blonde hair, and blue eyes...definitely blue eyes. Can't be any other colors of eyes
Cece00 replied:
Not true. Its rare but 2 blue eyed people can have children with different colored eyes.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
you're right. I guess I more meant it's impossible to have brown eyes. They have a 50% chance of having a child with green\hazel eyes.
Danalana replied: Yeah, I think it depends on if you have a recessive gene for a certain color. If we both had a recessive gene for brown, he would probably have brown. but I don't think that's likely.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
If you had a recessive gene to brown, you'd have brown eyes... because the brown gene isn't recessive, it's dominant. You can't carry the brown gene and not have brown eyes. So there's NO WAY the baby can have brown eyes.
However, green and hazel are both recessive... so you can carry those and still have blue eyes.
Same with blond... blond is recessive, brown is dominant. Since you both have blond hair, both genes you each carry have to be non-brown... so maybe like dirty blond and blond is what you're carrying? You child will definitely be blonde... just how blond, I can't say.
gr33n3y3z replied: My Mom and Dad both had brown eyes
My sister has brown
My Brother has blue eyes
Myself green
Danalana replied:
 That's a very good point, which I had forgotten!
Thanks for the reminder
grapfruit replied:
Mom and dad must of each had a recessive gene. Genetics is so interesting! 
Brias3 replied: My parents are both brown-eyed, and my younger brother is blue-eyed. We thought they would change, but they never did! I hear that's really uncommon- two dominants creating a recessive.
On the other hand, DH is blue-eyed, I'm brown-eyed, and we have one brown-eyed and two blue-eyed kids.
amymom replied: Stay put baby~~~~~~~~~at least 6 more days
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
2 dominants don't create a recessive... each person carries 2 genes.
It can be a combination of 2 dominants, 2 recessives, or a dominant and a recessive. You only pass on one of those genes to your child... one from each parent. So, if the child gets a recessive and a dominant gene... the the child has the dominant characteristic, but still carries the recessive one...
hence why blue eyes can "skip a generation", and why 2 brown eyed parents can have a blue eyed child... but 2 blue eyed parents cannot have a brown-eyed child.
Danalana replied: It's sad because I would love to have at least one brown-eyed baby...
HuskerMom replied: Genetics are so interesting but so confusing! I hope this baby has green eyes like mine, Keith has blue like Dh. I had a dream last night that she had white blonde hair like Keith and all her facial features looked just like him! Then later on in my dream she had brown hair.
Brias3 replied:
I guess I worded it wrong. What I was getting at was that I thought it was more uncommon for the recessive color to come out of two dominants???? Ok, I'm still wording this wrong and can't articulate what I'm trying to say through typing I guess! 
Anyhow, yes- genetics are certainly interesting!!
And Jess, hope that little baby is still staying put!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
no it's pretty much 50-50% each way.
The combinations are - here's a scenario:
D - dominant (brown)
R - recessive (blue)
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Parent A Parent B Parent C Parent D
DD RR DR DR
All children of parents AB will have eyes that are DR, so Brown and carry the blue gene.
Let's say... AB1, AB2, and AB3, they'll have 3 kids.
Children of parents C&D could be:
DD (25% chance) (child CD1)
DR or RD (50% chance) (child CD2)
RR (25% chance) (child CD3)
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If child AB1 grown up and marries...say... CD1, then it becomes
Parent AB1 Parent CD1
DR DD
their children wil be:
DD, DD, RD, RD. In all cases, there is a D gene... so all their children will have brown eyes. 50% chance to carry the blue gene, so 50% chance that the child's child will have blue eyes depending on the genetic makeup of their partner.
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If child AB1 has children with CD2, then it is
Parent AB1 Parents CD2
DR DR (or RD, it's the same)
The kids will be:
DD, DR, RD, RR - so there is a 25% chance each child may have blue eyes, a 75% chance to carry the blue gene - which means that their children later may have blue eyes...if their partner also carries it.
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and lastly if AB1 has children with CD3
Parent AB1 Parent CD3
DR RR
the kids will be:
DR, DR, RR, RR... so a 50% chance the child will have brown, 50% chance the child will have blue, but 100% to carry the gene and either 50% or 100% possibly pass it on, again depending on their partner's genes.
I remember in biotechnology we had to do the scenarios for about 7 generations. Ugh. It was fun though, I loved it. 
Cece00 replied:
No, no, you're still wrong.
Most ppl are still used to that high school punnet square type of thing, and dont realize that scientists figured out it doesnt quite work like that.
Again, its rare, but absolutely can happen.
>>Most of us learned the model for determining eye color that G.C. Davenport and C.B. Davenport devised in 1907. The Davenport model wrongly says brown eye color is always dominant over blue eye color, which means that two blue-eyed parents always have blue-eyed kids. We know better now.
"Although not common, two blue-eyed parents can produce children with brown eyes," says Richard A. Sturm, a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Eye color is a complex trait that depends on the state of several interacting genes. The gene that usually decides the issue (blue eyes or brown eyes) is the OCA2 gene on chromosome 15. But it comes in different strengths. A person with a weak form of the OCA2 gene will have blue eyes. Likewise a person with a strong form will have brown eyes.
The plot thickens, though, because an individual also has other eye-color genes that each has a say in the final eye-color outcome. For example, if one of these lesser genes is strong, it can make the weak form (blue) of OCA2 work much more effectively — almost like the strong form (brown). Then the eye color may be a light brown or muddy grey. In fact, the resulting color can be any shade of brown, hazel/green, or blue depending on the strengths of the interactions.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
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