Halakhah for Yevamot 155:7

ואיצטריך למיכתב להם ואיצטריך למיכתב אשר יולדו דאי כתב רחמנא אשר יולדו ה"א מבניהם מנה כתב רחמנא להם ואי כתב רחמנא להם ה"א מצרית מעוברת שנתגיירה היא ובנה חד כתב רחמנא אשר יולדו

Be guided by the status of the ineligible among them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whether the father is an Egyptian proselyte and the mother is of Israel, or whether the mother is an Egyptian and the father is an Israelite. the children are in either case ineligible until the third generation. ');">24 It was necessary [for Scripture] to write Unto them,25 and it was also necessary for it to write, That are born.25 For had the All Merciful written only. 'That are born', it might have been presumed that the counting must begin from their children,26

Sefer HaChinukh

Not to distance an Edomite of the third generation from coming into the congregation: Not to distance the seed of Esav after they convert - which is to say that we should not prevent ourselves from marrying with them, as there is no prohibition, like there is with Ammon and Moav; but rather, they are permissible after two generations. And about this is it stated (Deuteronomy 23:8-9), "You shall not despise an Edomite, since he is your brother, etc. Children that will be born to them in the third generation shall come into the Congregation of the Lord." And the third generations is the grandson of the convert. And they, may their memory be blessed, said (Yevamot 78a) about a pregnant Egyptian woman that converted while she is still pregnant, that her son is called the second [generation], even though his conception was while the mother was still an Egyptian.

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