What will our baby look like?
Are you going to be a parent and curious what your baby will look like? Would you like to know right now? In addition to a lot of wisdom on the subject, there is actually a fairly realistic way to find out. Read more here.
The appearance of the baby immediately after birth
- Mothers have right after the birth feeling that your newborns look just like their father. Studies have shown that this sensation is due to the high secretion of the hormone oxytocin. From an evolutionary point of view, it is even very important that mothers have this feeling, because in this way they could convince the fathers that the newborn baby is really their child. It was important for the fathers to accept the baby as their own in order for them to care for them education felt jointly responsible.
- Remember that your newborn baby can change a lot in the first few days. Your baby will "wrinkle". Once the exertions of childbirth are processed, your baby's true appearance will emerge. Only two things will not change, they are as unique as the fingerprint: the curve of the eyebrows and the shape of the cartilaginous auricle.
- Your newborn baby's eye color will also change. Immediately after birth, the color is not really recognizable because the eyes come into contact with light for the first time. The blue will change, take on a different shade or transition into a completely different color.
The appearance is also determined by the previous generation
Would you like to introduce yourself like yours infant maybe one day, you should also include the generation before that. Many hereditary traits skip a generation.
- Take photos of everyone in question. Baby photos if possible. Your parents, as well as their parents. If you or your partner have siblings then you should include baby photos from these as well.
- Think about what you inherited from your parents and what your partner inherited from his.
- If siblings have different inheritance traits in appearance, record them.
- Now there are no limits to your imagination, you can always create new combinations of inheritance traits. Perhaps one of the options you have created matches the real appearance of your baby.
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Ask your gynecologist
Your gynecologist may have a very good way of determining how your baby looks.
- Ask your gynecologist to take an ultrasound image of your baby on which you can see the face clearly. At best, they will get one picture with the baby's profile and one with a front view.
- If your gynecologist is equipped with a 3D ultrasound device, you can even recognize your baby very realistically. 3D ultrasound images accurately reflect the appearance of your baby. Have several of these pictures printed out, you will be able to determine the similarity after the birth.
Computer programs try to calculate the baby's appearance
There is Programswho use photos of the parents to calculate what the baby might look like. These calculated images do not look very realistic, but rather artificial. You have to upload a picture of yourself and your partner for the calculation. The program places these two pictures on top of each other and uses them to create the possible appearance of your baby. It is sure to be a lot of fun to experiment and look at different versions of your baby. But even this program cannot predict what your baby will look like in the end, because it does not know the composition of the genes.
Ultimately, despite all your attempts, you have no choice but to be surprised or to rely on the ultrasound images.
