Post by kittycatlove on Dec 20, 2012 21:02:34 GMT -5
My ds's eyes changed at about 9 months. His are now hazel and started out blue-gray Mine are hazel and dh has blue. Dh really wanted them to stay blue.
My girls were born w/ dark gray eyes. DD3s the nurses commented on her having brown eyes which I side eyed because I have green & DH royal blue. By 6mo or so they all clearly had blue that stayed. They all got lighter from birth to 6mo ish. DD1 has very light blue, DD2 medium blue. & DD3 is royal blue like DH.
Post by hilwithonelary on Dec 20, 2012 21:44:01 GMT -5
DH and I have green eyes, with DH 's being a tiny bit on the hazel side. I'm still not convinced that DS (34 months) is going to keep his blue eyes. They have changed since he was a baby, but they're still blue.
My oldest 2 have hazel eyes, and they slowly changed over a period of a couple years. They both had a blueish/grey that gradually got more green, and then eventually some brown. I was told they would stop changing by one, but they definitely kept getting darker. The baby has had brown eyes from pretty early on.
I don't remember when they changed from gray to brown. Funny side note that DH had never heard of eye color changing because he's only know brown eyed from birth babies. DS really surprised him.
Post by rootbeerfloat on Dec 20, 2012 21:56:33 GMT -5
I have brown eyes, and H has blue. DS had blue eyes from birth. Around a year, I felt confident they wouldn't change. DD started out with slate blue/gray eyes. They turned dark brown between 9-12m.
If you have blue eyes you can't pass down your mom's brown eyes.
ETA: my kid's eyes never changed- they're blue
Eh? Genetics are a little more complex than that.
DS's eyes were grey at birth, they're grey today. I'm light blue: DH's are alamost black.
My niece was grey at birth, cornflower blue at one, green at two and mustard color by age four.
Eh what? Unless I recall my high school genetics class wrong (and I admit it's been awhile), two (recessive) blue eyed people can't have a brown eyed kid because it takes two blue genes to make blue eyes. Therefore the parent can only pass down blue eye genes. But the other way around does not hold true. Two brown eyed people could potentially have a blue eyed child as it only takes one dominant brown eye gene to have brown eyes. Am I missing something?
I think my pediatrician said the kids eyes would stay the same after a year. They have always had blue gray eyes so I don't know how much they have changed.
I have blue eyes, H has hazel eyes. J was born with dark grey/blue eyes that gradually changed to a bright clear blue by about 3ish months. At this point, we're pretty sure they're staying blue.
I have blue eyes and my husband has hazel. My daughter's are gray-blue so far. My mom is not so secretly pulling for brown eyes because she has them and all three of her children were blue eyed.
From before DD was born, my mother said repeatedly how she hopes the baby's eyes stay blue. Once she was here, my mom would do a check at every visit and breathe a sigh of relief and continue with her comments (in front of my light brown eyed DH). No matter how many times I would tell her to knock it off b/c she was being rude, she would keep it up. No comments in a few months, thankfully, but I think she would shit a brick if they were to change now. I'm secretly hoping 2.0's eyes are brown.
My in-laws do this. It's annoying and extremely rude. The other grandkids have blue eyes and they make such a big deal out of it...in front of my young children. Luckily my children have no complexes about it, and think it is cool that their eyes change colors depending on what they wear
Post by dumbledore826 on Dec 21, 2012 8:02:34 GMT -5
DS's eyes have been the same blue/grey since he was about 6 months old. They are the exact same color as my father's eyes, down to the random yellow flecks through-out. That said, I am not convinced they can't change. It takes about 7 years for all of the cells in your body to be completely changed, and at this intervals characteristics can change (hair texture, color, skin tone). DH has brown eyes, but obviously his biodad (he is adopted and has never met his bioparents) passed down a blue-eyed gene (biomom is Ethiopian). I have hazel eyes. From my (limited) understanding of the genetics behind hazel eyes, it is the result of a recessive brown (not all brown eye genes are dominate) mixing with a blue or green gene. Both my Mom and Sister have brown eyes, but they are light brown.
I have brown eyes, DH has blue. DS has had blue eyes since birth. He's 2.5 so I think they're stuck, which is great! I love blue eyes. I thought for sure they would be brown.
Eh what? Unless I recall my high school genetics class wrong (and I admit it's been awhile), two (recessive) blue eyed people can't have a brown eyed kid because it takes two blue genes to make blue eyes. Therefore the parent can only pass down blue eye genes. But the other way around does not hold true. Two brown eyed people could potentially have a blue eyed child as it only takes one dominant brown eye gene to have brown eyes. Am I missing something?
I thought the same thing as you, but eye color is actually determined by many genes, so auntie is actually correct. It's not as simple as the Punnett square stuff we all learned in high school. (Source: I was chatting with a friend of mine who is getting her Ph.D. in genetics after I read this thread and I asked her--she said it is indeed possible to pass down your mom's brown eyes even if yours are blue.)
DD's eyes got darker and darker from birth so it was clear hers were going to be brown from about 3 or 4 months on. Hers are still straight-up brown. I'm curious to see if they will turn hazel like mine or just stay brown. Nobody that I know of on my side of the family has brown eyes (we all have hazel) but DH's dad does (which would be quite funny if DH passed on that trait--since his eyes are blue!).
DS's eyes were grey at birth, they're grey today. I'm light blue: DH's are alamost black.
My niece was grey at birth, cornflower blue at one, green at two and mustard color by age four.
Eh what? Unless I recall my high school genetics class wrong (and I admit it's been awhile), two (recessive) blue eyed people can't have a brown eyed kid because it takes two blue genes to make blue eyes. Therefore the parent can only pass down blue eye genes. But the other way around does not hold true. Two brown eyed people could potentially have a blue eyed child as it only takes one dominant brown eye gene to have brown eyes. Am I missing something?
I think my pediatrician said the kids eyes would stay the same after a year. They have always had blue gray eyes so I don't know how much they have changed.
I think you're right about the blue eyed people, but any other colors and things get more complicated.
If two blue eyed people have a brown-eyed baby, something is rotten in the house of Denmark and somebody is not telling the truth.
DS was born with grey eyes and they turned brown after 2 months I think. I was hopeful they would stay that way since DH's grandfather had grey eyes too.
My husband and I both have hazel eyes that appear to change colors day to day. We always joked about having chameleon eyed children, but we were wrong. My daughter's eyes are blue. I thought that might change, but she is three so I think they are staying. My son's eyes are a soft brown.
Eh what? Unless I recall my high school genetics class wrong (and I admit it's been awhile), two (recessive) blue eyed people can't have a brown eyed kid because it takes two blue genes to make blue eyes. Therefore the parent can only pass down blue eye genes. But the other way around does not hold true. Two brown eyed people could potentially have a blue eyed child as it only takes one dominant brown eye gene to have brown eyes. Am I missing something?
I thought the same thing as you, but eye color is actually determined by many genes, so auntie is actually correct. It's not as simple as the Punnett square stuff we all learned in high school. (Source: I was chatting with a friend of mine who is getting her Ph.D. in genetics after I read this thread and I asked her--she said it is indeed possible to pass down your mom's brown eyes even if yours are blue.)
DD's eyes got darker and darker from birth so it was clear hers were going to be brown from about 3 or 4 months on. Hers are still straight-up brown. I'm curious to see if they will turn hazel like mine or just stay brown. Nobody that I know of on my side of the family has brown eyes (we all have hazel) but DH's dad does (which would be quite funny if DH passed on that trait--since his eyes are blue!).
Who knows.
Can you ask your friend how this is possible? I'm curious. Also, how is blue gray determined? My husband has blue eyes, his dad blue gray, mine are brown, my parents are both brown and bothe my grandmothers had blue or hazelish eyes. I would love to know how that all works.