Mine brown, DH blue. Lelani was born with almost black eyes - very dark, but after two days it became blue-grey. Still is - has her dad's beautifull eyes. I sometimes imagine that I see brown specks in them, put that's only me trying to find something that looks like me, she is all her daddy!!
Most caucasian babies have dark blue eyes at birth.
the gene for blue eyes is recessive, and barring gene mutation, for a child to have blue eyes, both parents need to a have the gene for blue eyes.
Since you have 2 genes for eye colour, one inherited from your mum and one from you dad, your DH must have 2 genes for blue eyes.
You could either have 1 for blue and one for brown, or both brown (what colour eyes do your parents have, do any of your siblings have blue eyes..)
DS had blue-brown hazel eyes for 6-7 months before they went completely brown. (I have blue eyes, DH brown, but his mum's are blue so he has 1 gene for each)
I have blue eyes and hubby has greenish/brownish eyes. Claire has dark blue eye and she is 4 months. I guess some peoples just dont charge since there are a few of us who have blue eyes.
My eyes are blue, and DP's are dark brown. (although my eyes are more of a grey blue instead of a bright blue, and have orange around the pupil)
Aidyns were a typical dark blue when he was born, and they steadily lightened since then... Now they are blue - but not clear/bright blue. Depending on the clothing/lighting around him they can look greeny-hazel as well.
ETA - Moving this to General Baby & Toddler discussion
Last edited by Ambah; July 12th, 2007 at 05:21 PM.
It can take a year. DS had black, then navy, then brilliant blue eyes. They're now bluey-grey in the centre and navy at the edge of the iris. They'll probably end up blue/green/grey like his Dad's.
I have brown & some days hazel eyes, Dh being asain has black/very dark brown eyes, both girls had black/dark brown eyes at birth & both still have VERY dark brown/black eyes!!!
My two older kids from a previous marriage have deep dark brown eyes, olive skin and dark brown hair. I have gold/brown eyes, and XH had dark brown eyes. Both my parents have brown eyes. My two children had deep dark blue eyes at birth that went dark brown by 6 months. They have striking large deep eyes, alot of people comment on them.
Baby Leo is going to have blue eyes. He doesn't look anything like me or my kids. My DP (his father) has scandanavian looks as this is his heritage. He is fair skinned, blonde hair and blue eyes. Baby Leo is the same, fair skinned, blonde hair so far (his eyelashes are blonde and eye brows, and most of his hair, so I'm assuming he'll be blonde) and his eyes are a lighter blue, and look nothing like my other kids did at this age. He has light blue eyes, they had deep dark blue. So this is why I think his eyes will be blue like his father. He just really looks nothing like my other kids, I'm thinking I don't have any dominant genes
I'm wondering how I have the blue-eyed gene at all since my parents both have brown eyes. I am one of 5 siblings, and we all have brown eyes except one brother who has green eyes. So I guess I must have the gene somewhere?
Tara, the order of dominance in eyes is Brown, Blue, other colours. Everyone has 2 copies of every gene. Dominant genes show themselves, recessive genes hide away, they are masked by the dominant gene - rather like no-one noticing a quiet introvert behind a curtain in the corner of the room when there's a big noisy extrovert in the middle of it. Both are there, just one is hidden.
You clearly have a brown gene, but for your children to have another colour then you aren't homozygous (have both copies of the gene the same), but heterozygous (different copies).
Your DP would probably have homozygous blue.
Your parents would be heterozygotes too, this is shown by your brother having green eyes and not brown. There is a 1:2 chance of you inheriting a gene as you are half your mother and half your father... OK, this is going to get complex here.
Father has gene A and gene B (same gene, just different copies).
Mother has gene C and gene D (same gene as the father, just different again).
Child can have A or B from Dad AND C or D from Mum.
Child's genetics show one of the following: A and C; A and D; B and C; B and D. No A and B or C and D as you can't inherit two copies from one parent.
If both parents have A and B, the child can have A and A; A and B; B and A; B and B. Or, to put it simply, they have a 1:4 chance of AA, 1:2 chance of AB, 1:4 chance of BB.
Now, parents have genes for eye colour. B is brown eye colour and dominant, b is non-dominant. Both parents have B and b genes.
The children can therefore have B and B (1:4 chance), B and b (1:2 chance) or b and b (1:4 chance). Three children (BB and Bb) have brown eyes, one child (bb) does not.
HI I have bluey green eyes, so does DD and she was born with dark blue, then they went bright clear blue, now bluey green. DS had blue eyes at birth and they are now brown around the iris and crocodile brown/green the rest of the eye. DH has brown eyes but his didnt change until he was 1, my neice's changed fully by the time she was 18mths to brown, so anythings possible.
I asked an ophthalmologist about this. He said the colour is usually settled by 18 months, but changes can occur up to about age 4 (to darker).
Fair-skinned Caucasian babies (generally meaning of northern European descent) are almost always born with some shade of blue eyes. If the baby's eyes are brown at birth, they will stay dark.
Eye colour is carried on multiple genes so you can have many variations. HTH.
Darcy has always had electric blue eyes. Astonishingly blue. DH and I both have green green eyes and our whole extended families except for his sister have either green or hazel eyes.
Cool calculator - we had an 8.3%chance of having a blue eyed child...
My DS has the most awesome blue eyes. Both DH and I have blue eyes... mine are a grey-blue but DH has a bright blue. Both DH's parents have blue eyes, my Mum has green and my Dad has (what he calls) Cow Brown. It's a bit of a fluke that I got blue eyes myself.
DS eyes started off a really dark inky navy and have gotten lighter and much brighter. They are almost a very striking royal blue now.
ETA: I just took that test. Very interesting. Came back that I had 100% chance of having a blue-eyed baby
Funnily enough a midwife swore black & blue that no caucasian babies were born with black/brown eyes! She would not accept that my Dh is Balinese & so both babies eyes were almost black, darkest brown... She refused (even though holding Indah & had met Maddy) to believe they didnt have blue eyes!??? LOL!
Matthew's eyes didn't change, all he got was a lighter ring around the pupil. I have brown eyes....the only one in both families of blue eyes going back a few generations. (Many jokes about me being the milkman's daughter). Acording to my mother, my eyes stayed very dark for months until slowly going the very dark brown they are now. DH's are very blue too, so I think any of my kids will probably end up blue.
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