I am 6 months pregnant with my first child and I was curious what color eyes she would have.
My Husband:
-My husband is full Swedish(He is from Sweden) and he has blonde hair and blue eyes, most of my husbands family has blue eyes
Me:
-I am half Swedish, a quarter African American, and a quarter Native American and I have dark brown eyes and so does everyone on my Dads side(Native American and African American), on my Moms side(Swedish) she has Brown eyes but most of my Moms side has Blue eyes
Thank You for your help :)
2007-01-30 14:04:12 · 15 answers · asked by Natasha 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
You have two copies of every gene (one from each parent). The only way to have blue eyes is to inherit blue eyes genes from each parent. If you get one blue and one brown, the brown overpowers the blue, and the eyes look brown. I think it's even more complicated than this, cause there are two layers of pigment. So there are actually 4 total genes, if any one of them is brown, the baby will be brown.
The odds will be in favor of brown eyes, but there is still a possibility of blue. I think probably 75% chance of brown eyes. It's not 50/50, because you might not have any blue in your genes at all, if it didn't get passed to you from your mom.
Green is impossible.
2007-01-30 14:17:58 · answer #1 · answered by JoeIQ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brown eyes are dominant, but since you have recessive blue eyes in your genes, it is possible for the child to have either one. Though there wasn't any african american in my ex's family, but indian and mexican, and my father in law the same, yet he had blue eyes, they had 3 children with blue, and 3 children with brown. Our daughters both have brown, even though I have blue, but I also carry the recessive genes for brown eyes. So it is a toss up. You'll just have to wait and see. Plus my oldest daughters eyes kept changing colors until she was almost 2. They would go from a very dark blue to dark brown and back again.
2007-01-30 14:13:02 · answer #2 · answered by Fruit Cake Lady 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am studying genetics right now, so I can give you a fairly accurate guess. You and your husband have two possibilities each of the eye color you will pass down. Since your husband has two recessive alleles most likely (blue eye chromosomes) and you probably have the dominant brown allel, but also are a carrier for the recessive blue allel your child has a 50/50 chance his or her color eyes. Your child will either have two recessive alleles,or one dominant (which masks the blue) and one recessive allel. It is highly unlikely that your child will have green eyes.
2007-01-30 14:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by lt_lewis2 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Brown eyes are dominant so if your mom's parents are one blue eyed and one brown eyed there is a chance that you will have the recessive blue eyed gene and if you do your child will have a 50% chance of having blue eyes. If both of your mom's parents have blue eyes then you definitely have the recessive blue eyed gene and the chances are still the same. If you don't have the recessive blue eyed gene then your child will have brown eyes.
2007-01-30 14:30:09 · answer #4 · answered by casbrat1981 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since brown is dominant and blue is recessive, you pretty much have a 1 in 4 chance of having a blue eyed baby!
2007-01-30 14:17:24 · answer #5 · answered by new mama 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you probably have a 50 50 chance. Brown eyes are a dominant trait and blue is recessive. lets say you hubby is BlueBlue and You are BlueBrown. There are 4 combinations, only two of which are BlueBlue. Blue Brown combination means brown
2007-01-30 14:07:46 · answer #6 · answered by walter_b_marvin 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your baby has a good chance of brown or hazel eyes, dark eyes are dominant. BUT that's not to say he can't be born and keep blue eyes either. You never know! Congrats and good luck!
2007-01-30 15:04:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You won't know till your baby is a few months old when the "born blue" eyes changes to their natural color (or stay blue). I've heard brown eyes are dominant, but that wasn't the case with my daughter. My hubby has brown eyes, I have hazel. Our daughter has blue. Go figure. (We both have blue eyed family members - my mother, his brother) So, you never know.
2007-01-30 14:12:14 · answer #8 · answered by Mom of 3 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hard to say, but generally, all babies are born with blue eyes..they may change in color at a later time.
2007-01-30 14:09:28 · answer #9 · answered by jan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think the baby would have brown eyes because I believe that is the dominant gene.
2007-01-30 14:10:33 · answer #10 · answered by Kayla S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋