I think I read somewhere that blue eyes turn blue the fastest, brown eyes take a bit longer unless you're ethnically darker skinned (for some reason) in which case eyes can go brown almost immediately. Green eyes take the longest and keep changing.
Dh 's eyes are classed as hazel, they change colour hour by hour. I've sat and watched them change from light brown to deep green.
Ds has green eyes, they took well over a year to change, although it was a long change not sudden.
Dd 's eyes are still changing. She's 5.5 months. I was certain they were going to be dark brown like my eyes, but now I'm wondering if she'll have green eyes, too.
My eldest sister has crazy yellow eyes. I'm sure they were brown when she was little but have turned yellow as she ages. Weird.
DS' eyes were an amazing bright blue when he was born, but have definitely lightened in the last few months to the same blue-grey of DH's eyes. Having said that, DH's eyes still change colour depending on his mood (and what he's wearing can bring out the blueness too) and DS' do too. He's 19 months old.
DS has blue eyes and is 3 and just the other day I was looking at them thinking they have changed again. Now they are a muddy grey/blue rather than a deep darker blue like they were!! DD's changed to the colour they are now by around 2 but even then I think they have gotten darker(goldy/hazel) !!! So much for they will be the colour they are at 12 months like so many people say!
Oh and how do 2 brown eyed people have a bluey - 5% chance or something!!! Heehee!!
My DD1 had very blue eyes but they have slowly changed to a grey/green like mine, around 2.5 years before they stopped changing
DD2 had very bright blue eyes and they have stayed blue but are now a lighter blue, this was around 18 months
DD was born early and her eyes were black for a few months.
They started to lighten to blue at about 4 months (2 1/2 corrected), and they've stayed blue. She's about to turn 1.
I have blue eyes, so she gets it from me.
From memory the gene works that if there is NO blue/green in your DH's parentage, babies eyes will be brown.
I suppose it's not a hard and fast rule but i remember doing 'punnet squares' in yr 12 biology for gene pairing and it makes sense.
Something like as follows - To have a blue/green eyed baby, one parent needs to have a dominant gene and the other a recessive for it.
Recessive gene come from their parents.
I was shattered when I found a refresher on gene pairing and realised that even though I have blue eyes I won't have a blue eyed baby.
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