How old was your bub when you could tell what colour their eyes were going to be?

[~Kim~]

Dh has brown eyes and I have green.

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.

[Trillian]

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.

[SunnyRain]

Oh and how do 2 brown eyed people have a bluey - 5% chance or something!!! Heehee!!

Blue is recessive, you need 2 blue genes for blue eyes, you and your dh must both have a recessive blue gene. This gives your offspring a 25% chance of having blue eyes.


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[Jennifer13]

My sisters and I were all born with brown eyes (Eastern European genes). My eyes are not anywhere near as dark brown as either of my sisters, more of a muddy greeny-brown.

My DD was born with her clear blue eyes and they didn't change at all. I was surprised! They are much brighter than DP's and on my side are like my grandfather's were (so she's the first to have blue eyes in our line for three generations).

My DP has blue eyes and my Mum has green eyes. Since our DD has blue eyes, it means I also carry the recessive blue gene. Also means we can't actually have a brown eyed child - it would either be green or blue all the way. Weird, huh?

[Cherished]

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.

[Beach Mama]

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!

[luna moth]

My baby is nearly 1 and we still can't tell! They were brown for a long time, but they seem to be greening out a bit.

[KitFaerie]

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!

[Janie71]

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.

Janie xxx

[jacklicky]

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!

[*TripleJ*]

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

[~MummaBear~]

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

ETA im pretty sure they call that Hazel LOL

[~clover~]

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...

[nickle730]

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!!

[Nai]

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.

[nickle730]

Hold on! Hazel, (with some brown. some green...) is considered 'brown' isn't it??? Is it?? A BB member must know??

And this, ladies, is why we don't drink three glasses of champagne and listen to Michael Buble singing christmas carols whilst cooking lasagne for dinner!!

[SunnyRain]

I just read the wikipedia article on eye colour. Illuminating.

Turns out eye colour is not the result of a single gene, and the colour is actually determined by the amount of melanin present in different layers of the eye and the refraction of light through those layers. There is no actual pigmentation other than brown.

It would appear the genetics of eye colour is very complicated and differences in eye colour in families may not be immediate cause for alarm.

I also discovered my sister's yellow eyes are called amber.

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[Phteven]

With my green eyes and DH's brown eyes it was pretty obvious that our babies would have brown eyes long before they were born.
DS1 was born with black brown eyes and they are still the same colour. You have to look hard to see the pupil because they are so dark.
DS2 has eyes the colour of 70% dark chocolate. Yum.

Hold on! Hazel, (with some brown. some green...) is considered 'brown' isn't it??? Is it?? A BB member must know??

Green eyes are part of the brown genetic pool but as kuraiza just pointed out eye colour is more complex than brown dominant/blue recessive.