eye color... - when do they change???

~Sarah~ wrote: HI I have been wondering forever about my daughters eyes....My eyes are brown and my husbands are beautiful blue.....my 3 yr. old was born with blue eyes but nothing like the babies are now, Mackenzie's eyes eventually turned to a beautiful brown but I can not for the life of me remember when and I am sooo hoping that Tatem's eyes stay this gorgeous blue....

What do you think?? When did your babies eyes change or not change???

mammag replied: I was thinking Kristen's turned around 10mos (don't know why I've been saying that all along) but I was looking at pics and there was one where she was two and they were still blue. They were a deeper blue than Keegan's were though so I'm hoping his will stay blue. The other two boys had very dark eyes right away. It's so weird how that all works out.

Jamielou replied: Well carley's have always been the same color (blue) and delaney also has blue eyes but everybody in my family has blue eyes i mean everybody my mammaw was the only one who had hazel. I hope delaney's stay blue. Anyway my ex husbands mom always said he had blue eyes until he was 3 and they turned green but i always heard that they will be their permanent color by the age of 2 or so . but i could be wrong.

Sarah&Mackenzie replied: O.K this is weird. My name is Sarah and my daughters name is Mackenzie too!!

jacobsmama replied: Jacob is 18 months still beautful blue as well...Hopefully Tatem stay that way too!!!

TANNER'S MOM replied: My step daughters brown eyes changed around 15 months..

huggybugboy replied: I was wondering that too... Miles is the same age and his eyes are blue but theyre a different color blue than the color he was born with.

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: Mine changed at 15 years, and Dh's at 16 years.

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied:
WOW!

Both DH and I have light eyes, blue and green, so I don't know about changing. But I noticed Wil had very blue eyes at birth. Not the typical grayish color that most babies have. But a dark sapphire blue that just kept getting lighter every day. So I somehow knew they would stay blue. He's only 11.5 months, so maybe they'll still change, but I highly doubt it. Look at pics below!! I always thought it would be safe to say they'll stay this way after maybe a year, but according to what Lisa says above, maybe not!

Jenny_B replied: I think our pediatrician said that if his eyes stayed totally blue through six months, he'd probably keep his blue eyes...but if there were any other flecks of color in them 'all bets are off', lol. He's going on two, and his eyes are still as blue as ever!

Jenny

Marie_S replied: Both DP and I have dark brown eyes and our baby Branden has blue eyes still. He is almost 7 months and our midwife said early on she thinks his will stay blue. Both of Branden's grandma's have blue eyes and his aunt and uncle have blue eyes so he must have gotten blue eyes from them. It doesn't stop people from giving is weird looks though

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Blue eye color is a recessive gene - if you have a family member from an older generation that has blue eyes... (it can go REALLY FAR BACK) the recessive blue gene can be passed down, and if the gene given to the child by the other parent is brown, Brown is dominant and so dominates over the blue gene, but the blue gene is still there.

If THAT child brown eyes yet has the recessive blue gene from one parent, it can have blue eyes IF the OTHER parent passes down a recessive blue gene as well.

So a child can have blue eyes even if both parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents all have brown eyes - if a recessive blue gene passed down and met up with another recessive blue gene. (a hint that there is a recessive gene somewhere is if one family member has blue eyes... and everyone else has brown - it just means that they got gene-lucky)

Same goes with Red hair.

Get it? I can expalin more in detail if you ned me to....

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
They have to stay blue or green, or maybe even gray. If you and your DH both have blue/green eyes, there is NO WAY ANY of your kids can have any other colored eyes than blue or green, maybe gray - because neither you nor DH has any brown genes, otherwise you`d have brown eyes, since Brown is dominant.

Will`s eyes will never turn brown, unless he isn`t DH`s.

Marie_S replied: Thanks for the explanation Zacksmom. It makes sense and we do have a lot of people in my family with blue eyes so it is not all that strange, but when strangers see him with both DP and I then tend to take a second glance and it makes us smirk. LOL.

msoulz replied: DH has blue eyes, mine are brown. At 12 mos my son's eyes were hazel/green and stayed that way for a while, long enough for us to think perhaps he did get his grandfather's eyes, but then they went brown. I just don't remember when!

Hillbilly Housewife replied:


silly people.....

I have 1 cousin who has bright red hair. NObody else in my family has red hair... but a great aunt on her mom`s side does.

She looks identical to her father though - no doubt she`s his!!!!