7. Afraid the baby is half White

A lot of fathers have never seen a newborn before and most of them look alike. Experienced nurses can tell at a glance, usually, if a baby is a different race from the father. Most of the time, they are so stoked from the birth process that they aren’t even noticing any differences. Although, I do get a lot of black fathers exclaiming that their baby is white at birth. Is this a thing? I had 2 grandmas ask me ” is it normal for the baby to be this color?” I had not looked at the baby yet and told them all babies are a little blue at birth. Then I noticed the baby was black. Married mom and dad were white, and this baby was going to be a junior. They were still acting as if nothing was out of sorts when they were discharged a day or two later. Oh, and another story, there are recessive genes as well. I have friends who are a mixed couple and their last child was white, red-haired, not albino looking. Looked Irish. No fooling around involved.

8. A red (headed) flag

Those recessive genes can do a number sometimes. A couple from our birthing class separated during the course of the class because the pregnant woman’s mother caught the guy cheating. Both of them were dark hair, brown eyes, sort of olive skin. Same with the woman’s mother, who subbed in for the remainder of the classes and the birth. The guy comes in to see the new baby, who was very pale with sort of light red hair at birth and starts screaming it isn’t his before storming out. The woman was very unhappy he made it very public in the middle of the hospital when a bunch of folks were around. Of course everyone in our class heard about it because small town.

When our class had a victory pot luck a month later to show off all the new babies, the mother made a point to show everyone the paternity test results proving the baby was in fact his. Turned out both families had a little ginger hiding in the background.