I am 7 months pregnant with my first child and i woundering what color my baby's eye color would be. I have brown hair and brown eyes, my husband has brown hair and blue eyes. What color would it be, Brown, Blue, or possibly Grey?
2007-03-16 09:16:05 · 19 answers · asked by km 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Most likely, your baby's eyes will be brown because brown is a dominant trait while blue eyes is usually recessive. Dominant means that it appears more often and is a stronger gene while recessive is the opposite. Your baby's eyes color won't only depend on yours and your husbands eye color, but your and his parents eye color too. How many people on your husbands side of the family have blue/brown eyes? How many people on your side of the family have blue/brown eyes? Your baby can even end up having green eyes if either of you carry the gene. Just because the gene isn't expressed, doesn't mean you don't carry it.
To give you some kind of example, i have hazel eyes while my husband has green. My oldest son has green eyes, my middle one has grey eyes, and my youngest has brown.
Most likely your baby will have brown eyes, but there's definitely a chance on it having blue or even grey. All depends on what genes it gets from each of you.
good luck and congrats!
2007-03-16 09:28:18 · answer #1 · answered by Sam 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to predict mother nature. And you really won't find out until around 6 months. Yes, brown eyes are a dominant trait, but both parents could have contributived a recessive gene. Not knowing and watching how it plays out makes life more fun.
I have brown hair/eyes (as does my family), my husband also brown/brown. Yet we have a redheaded child with brown eyes, and a blonde with green eyes. Life is beautiful this way.
2007-03-16 09:32:03 · answer #2 · answered by 8p8a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There really is no telling. My husband is part hispanic, and has black hair and brown eyes. I'm a big mix and have brown hair and brown/green eyes, and my son came out with blonde/red hair and bright blue eyes.
And before anyone says anything, my son IS my husband's.
Edited to add: My son is a year old, and his hair and eyes are still the same color they were when he was born.
2007-03-16 09:41:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brown eyes are dominate over blue. But you need to go further back to what color are yours and his parents. Also take in consideration the color of yours and his siblings, uncles and aunts and grandparents. Once you get an average of the different combinations, you should be able to tell if you will get the dominate color or whether or not there are enough recessive genes to get blue or even green.
2007-03-16 09:21:35 · answer #4 · answered by sagegranny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any of the above! My husband has brown eyes, all of his family have dark brown eyes. My mother has hazel, my father has green I was born with grey and all my children(I have 4) have the most clear star blue eyes you've ever seen. It's really a mystery that his family loves pondering as if I "cheated" on my husband since they are ALL blue eyed and he and I don't have blue eyes.
2007-03-16 09:22:50 · answer #5 · answered by Heavenly Advocate 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Brown is the dominate color and blue is a recessive. But the genetics for eye color is so hard to predict. All i can say is they are more likely to be brown. But you never know.
2007-03-16 09:24:57 · answer #6 · answered by Reported for insulting my belief 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to look farther back to the grandparents. My sister has hazel eyes and her husband has brown eyes but all four of their children have blue eyes. Why? Well their maternal grandmother had blue eyes and so did their paternal grandmother. Also even if the baby is born with blue eyes they often change.
2007-03-16 09:26:55 · answer #7 · answered by 2craz4u 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when a baby is born they are born with blue eyes usually around 6 months there perminant eye color will stay.A parent with brown-brown genes produces only children with brown eyes, but a parent with brown-blue eyes could produce children with eye colors other than brown.
2007-03-16 09:26:18 · answer #8 · answered by mommy to a preemie baby girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They could be brown or blue but most likely brown because brown is a darker color and darker colors overrule lighter colors. It also depends on your history if a lot of people in your family had blue eyes your baby might have blue eyes. It's hard to say.
2007-03-16 09:25:51 · answer #9 · answered by quizzing_princess25 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That can't be predicted. I have brown eyes, and so does my husband. My son was born with the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen. (Yes, he is the baby daddy for all your doubters!!). According to my grandmother, her grandfather had blue eyes, and according to my mother in law, family members on her side had blue eyes so it's in the family history.
2007-03-16 09:26:24 · answer #10 · answered by Betty 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋