When did your baby's eyes stay the same?

[dragonfly08]

I have dark brown eyes, DH has something we call hazel for lack of a better label but isn't really, they're just weird.

DD #1 was born with dark brown eyes that never changed.

DD #2 was born with piercing blue eyes. They're still blue (she's 6 now) but not nearly as bright. I'd say somewhere between 9 and 12 months they faded to their current color.

[gnomesweetgnome]

No kids here, but my eyes were blue from birth until about 3, and then they changed to green (almost hazel, with brown/gold flecks).

[nonsenseabound]

My kids both had milky gray brown eyes at birth. By about 3 months they were definitely brown. But both DH and I have dark brown eyes, so it was no surprise. You'd have to go way back to find a different color eye in his family and I'm asian.

[everam01]

The boys both had blue-gray eyes for a long time.

E's turned brown around 8-9 months. N's started turning green around the same time, then ended up hazel. They might end up brown, but right now he still has a lot of green mixed in.

[Deleted]

Ds's changed at 15 months.

Started blue now are hazel. I have hazel eyes and DH has blue/green eyes.

[Ashley&Scott]

M has blue eyes. When he was born I was convinced they would change, now I don't think they will.

I have dark brown eyes, DH's are light brown.

[rootbeerfloat]

Dec 21, 2012 9:10:30 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

At some point when kid 1 was a baby, someone asked me if his eyes would change color. I was like nope, asian genes win every time.

No, they don't! I have a blue-eyed kid. He's slightly more than half white, but Hawaiian, Chinese and Korean. The white genes won out!

[mishap]

Both boys took a little over a year to turn.

[liveintheville]

Dec 21, 2012 13:49:30 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

Dec 21, 2012 9:10:30 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

At some point when kid 1 was a baby, someone asked me if his eyes would change color. I was like nope, asian genes win every time.

No, they don't! I have a blue-eyed kid. He's slightly more than half white, but Hawaiian, Chinese and Korean. The white genes won out!

Ah. In my case I'm full Vietnamese and had zero recessive eye genes. There was no possibility my kids would end up with a recessive on both sides, so brown was guaranteed

[rootbeerfloat]

I should've clarified. I have a blue-eyed grandfather, so carry the recessive gene. But the blue eyes were still a surprise and get a lot of attention

[liveintheville]

Dec 21, 2012 13:55:12 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I should've clarified. I have a blue-eyed grandfather, so carry the recessive gene. But the blue eyes were still a surprise and get a lot of attention

Half asian kids with blue eyes are gorgeous! Post a pic!
My kids cousins all have blue eyes. My SIL's inlaws once asked her if her kids resembled our kids. That'd be a big fat no. The kids definitely look more like me than my husband ;D

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Dec 21, 2012 10:08:37 GMT -5 UnderProtest said:

Dec 21, 2012 9:16:36 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

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.

She has the stomach flu right now and told me to look up eye color genetics on Wikipedia if I wanted more info, LOL. I haven't done it. She didn't feel like getting into a long discussion obviously!

[rootbeerfloat]

Dec 21, 2012 14:00:18 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

Half asian kids with blue eyes are gorgeous! Post a pic!
My kids cousins all have blue eyes. My SIL's inlaws once asked her if her kids resembled our kids. That'd be a big fat no. The kids definitely look more like me than my husband ;D

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DS's eyes settled into brown around 2 months. They were this gorgeous steel gray before that but transitioned to brown very suddenly. There is still a ring of gray around the iris though. :-)

[Deleted]

Omg RBF your kids are gorgeous!!!

[bunch]

Rbf, do I know you?

[bunch]

Never mind, I just fb stalked who I thought you were. Her kids have brown eyes