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.
DD has electric blue eyes. Always has.
DS was born with grey/blue eyes but flecked. Now at nearly 3 they are still changing. Might end up with a green eyed child yet.
DS1, DD2 and DS2 were all born with dark brown eyes, it was quite remarkable to see these tiny babies with such dark brown eyes because most other babies have blue eyes. DD1 however was born with the typical baby blue eyes, but by 3 months old hers were a hazel colour. I have dark brown eyes and DH has hazel coloured eyes. We were never going to have blue eyed kids LOL.
ds has blue eyes but at 4 months I started to see a very small green patch in one of them. As both dh and I have green eyes I had assumed they would turn green. He is 14.5months now and they haven't gotten any greener so now I'm thinking that he will keep his blue eyes as both of his grandfathers have blue eyes. I've also been noticing loads of adults with blue eyes and a green patch in the same spot as ds. I've been looking at the iridology chart to see what area in the body it relates to so that I can be mindful of his diet etc Apparently there are only 2 true colours, blue and green and everything else is an indication of problem/weak areas in the body or constitution. I also know of people that have changed their green eyes back to blue as adults. Soooo I will work on clearing up ds's green patch if he eyes stay blue. I think eye colour is supposed to be set by about 2yrs of age.
Thanks Kuraiza, DH's grandfather has blue eyes, dad has green, my dad has hazel green but no blue that I know of on mine (although could be grandparents that I never me overseas - must ask mum!) so it's rather interesting!!
eta: I just used THIS fun!!! Turns out to be a 2.8% chance!
Last edited by Beach Mama; December 2nd, 2011 at 11:14 AM.
My Mum has blue eyes and my Dad has dark brown, she was so excited because she wanted a brown eyed baby. Nope, she got flecked hazel, darker flecked hazel and blue!
My daughters eyes were the darkest shade of brown (pretty much black) from birth, but her daddy is of Indian heritage. They have stayed that dark and she is now over 2 1/2.
I have brown and DH has blue and we ended up with a blue eyed little girl....I knew from the start they were staying blue as they were just so bright...they have lightened up a little over the three years but are still very blue.
I never thought I would have a blue eyed child (all that recessive gene stuff) cause no one in my family history that we know of has blue eyes but obviously its there somewhere....both my sister and I have ended up with blue eyed children!
i have blue eyes my dad has blue eyes and my mum has brown but her mum had blue eyes
DH has brown eyes his dad had brown his mum has blue
DS has brown DD has blue and is the spitting image of my sister when she was a bubba
I have 4 kid my 3 boys were born with almost black eyes, they were never blue and they all have brown/ really dark eyes now. My DD had Blue eyes until she was 3 and then almost over night they changed to a greeny browny colour
mine were all blue eye's til around 8 months, brown by 12 months.
dd3 is different though. hers are a hazelly brown... i'm brown, dh is blue-grey, mil; blue-grey, fil; brown (from memory), my mum; blue, my dad; brown.
dunno where the hazel comes from, but its cute! they'll probably get darker...
I have green eyes, sometimes bright green, sometimes almost hazel. DH has pure blue eyes, not a fleck of brown in them. My three kidlets all have DH's pure blue eyes.
As far as eye colour is concerned, there is only 'blue' or 'brown'. Anything other than brown (hazel, green...) is considered 'blue'. We each receive one gene from each parent, either blue or brown. Brown is dominant so if you inherit one brown gene (or two brown genes!) you will 'display' (have) brown eyes. To have blue eyes, you must inherit ONLY blue genes, one from mum and one from dad - blue is recessive. So if you have blue eyes (or green) you ONLY possess blue genes, otherwise you would display the dominant brown gene. It is a genetic impossibility for two blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child. They only have 'blue' genes to give to their children. (A child of any parent with brown eyes can be either blue or brown, depending on whether the recessive blue gene exists in the familial line).
When I was about 16, I wondered where my brown eyed brother and sister came from - mum and dad are both 'blue' (green) eyed... ahh, the skeletons which eventually fell out of that closet!!
I have hazel eyes that go anything from green to brown and dp has blue.
Dd1 was born with eyes like pools of black ink and they became dark brown not too much later. I think she got the. black Irish throwback gene Dd2 was born with china blue eyes and they have stayed thay way.
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Dd2 was born with china blue eyes and they have stayed thay way.
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