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Just wondering when a baby's eye colour changes?? Isabelle has dark blue eyes and they have been pretty much the same since birth. I have greeny hazel eyes and DH's are chocolate brown. His dad, uncle and grandfather all have blue eyes though - so is it possible that her eyes will stay as they are now?
I cant remember any of my recessive/dominant gene stuff from high school -waaaay too long ago!!;)
If your DH dad has blue eyes than it is possible for you to have a blue eyed baby. The brown gene is dominant so to have blue eyes you must have 2 genes for blue which means that your DH must have got one blue gene from his Dad (given he has blue eyes so must have 2 blue genes) and the brown gene from his Mum, remembering that brown being dominant so your DH has brown eyes.
My DS was born with beautiful blue eyes but they have now changed to brown. Mine are blue and DH are brown. I can't exactly remember when they changed, I know that when we were in the UK at Christmas they had changed to brown and he was 9 months old then.
Hope my little science lesson isn't too confusing!
Hee hee not at all Krisp!! Thanks for the info! Thing is DH has brown too- its his dad that has blue, so I guess hers will change because we both have brown and I dont have any blue on my side!
I am not to sure if this is truly correct but this is what I thought...
The eye colour of a baby at birth usually begins to change at around six months of age. Children who are going to have dark eyes tend to change a little earlier than this.
Hoipe this helps Tan...:p
My sisters and I were all born with brown eyes. Our father's side of the family immigrated from Eastern Europe and if you've ever seen photos of children over there they all have those big dark brown eyes, exactly like we all did. Mine actually got lighter over time and are now a murky greeny brown, rather than dark like my sisters. Dad's family all have dark brown eyes.
My Mum's eyes are hazel, meaning she has one brown and one blue gene (her father had blue eyes). So the gene I inherited from my Mum would be either brown or blue.
My DP has blue eyes, so he must have two blue genes (his are light blue).
Our DD was born with bright blue eyes (not the darker blue that tends to be changeable). Her eyes have stayed the same colour since birth. So this means I must have the blue gene from my Mum (even though I have brown eyes) since otherwise DD would have hazel or brown eyes by now. Her blue is actually closest to the blue of my grandfather's (my Mum's dad) eyes, her great-grandfather (so his blue gene that came through Mum and then me), which is kinda funny since neither my Mum nor I had his eyes!
Hope that wasn't too boring!
DS was born with black eyes, which changed to navy blue then changed to bright blue. They're now gray-blue. However, we asked his my friend's "little bit of a big girl" (she's two and a half) and she reckons DS has brown eyes, so who knows what they will end up as!
Apparently they change between 6 and 12 months if they are going to change. Jack's didn't so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Tom (I'm brown, DH is blue). But at 10 months they're starting to look darker to me so I think they might go brown.
I don't really know when it happens but I've got my fingers crossed DS eyes stay as they are. DH has awesome blue eyes & everyone comments on DS lovely blue eyes....please, please don't change. My eyes are horrible, such a dark colour, almost black really. They've never been an obvious colour & I hate that.
Sorry that didn't really help did it LOL.
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I've heard 6 weeks, 6 months and 18months. Darcy has Electric blue eyes. Mine are bright green and DH's are hazel.
When I used one of those eye colour predictors we had a 0.8% chance of having a blue eyed child based on our family's eye colour....:dunno:
There is a website where you can get the % liklihood based on parents, their siblings, and their parents eye colour
I think there is a thread about it in the website forum
i don't know how the eye colour works. i thought that you could only have a baby with blue eyes if both parents had blue eyes, but tht is obviously not the case. DH has dark brown eyes and i have green eyes, Archies eyes are beautiful blue, haven't changed since his birth. My mum has bluey grey eyes, and DH Dad had blue eyes.
Mine and DH's eyes are hazel but all 3 kids have blue eyes like my mum which she loved cause both my brother and I have hazel eyes as does my dad.
there's another thread on this too, Ryn explained it really well.
Everyone has 2 genes for eye colour. Brown is dominant, blue/green are recessive
So you can have brown eyes and have either 2 genes for brown eyes, or 1 for brown and one for blue.
In my example, I have blue eyes, which since its recessive, and no one else in my family has green, all are blue, means I have 2 genes for blue eyes.
DH has brown eyes, as did his dad. His mum has blue eyes, and BILs are green/hazel
So DH has 1 brown gene (cos his eyes are brown) and one blue (cos his mums are blue and his brothers are green)
I'm not sure quite how green works, but DS has brown. Our kids have a 50% chance of brown eyes, 32.5% chance blue and 17.5% chance green
So here is what I have found!!
Heterozygous (More likely) 50% Brown And 50% Hazel
Homozygous (Less Likely) > 99% Brown
In general, inheritance of eye color is considered "polygenic". That means that parent's genes usually (but not always) determine the baby's eye color. But even two brown eyed individuals can make a blue-eyed baby, because this does not always completely follow the rules (it's therefore called "polygenic").
So I guess we will just wait and see!! ;) Thanks for your replies!
google what colour eyes would your children have
its really cool.
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I was told up to 2 years depending.
Our godson had the brightest blue eyes for about a year and they are now deep green (he is 3)... didnt take notice when they changed though.
But we are the same, ashley has deep charcoal blue and we are both hazel.... so will see
Well both Dh and I have green eyes. I have three children and they all have very big blue eyes. but DH's parents both have blue. but both of my parents have hazel and they had 7 children, and three of us were born with blue eyes, but we have all gone green, but not until we were about 12. now my sister has karki eyes I have very green and the other one has aqua. as your eyes arnt ment to change colour that late I dont know how or why they did or how my parents my three blue eye kids to start with but they did so you nerver know you may get a blue/green eyed baby anyway. I am hoping my kids will keep there blue eyes.
Hi there. I always thought that after 6 weeks of age your babies eyes will stay as they are at 6 weeks.
I dont know that blue over rights green/hazel and brown over right all. So my DD father had brown eyes and I have green, she has brown. Now my DH now has blue and I have green and DS has blue eyes.
So its green, blue, then brown. That is the order that is strongest.
Someone with Brown eye can have 2 alleles, I brown, and one blue or green, which is how 2 parents both with brown eyes can have a child with blue eyes.
Two parents with blue eyes would be unlikely to have children with another colour than blue, possible grren, and unlikely but possible brown, depending on mutations, and becuase there are other factors that influence eye colour that are less well understood.