How long does it take before an infant can establish his true eye color?

Question

My sons father has hazel colored eyes. I have dark brown colored eyes.My son is almost two months. We haven't been able to tell which color his eyes are at all. His grandmother said it will take a while. I just wondered if anybody has had the same experience.

Answer 1

This is an interesting question. All babies can have blue-ish eyes. However, their true eye color will begin to appear within the first month or two. Some babies do not obtain their true color until they are even older; however, it depends on the genes that are determining their eye color. Hazel and blue/green/gray eyes seem to take longer to "develop".

As for the brown eyed couple with a blue eyed baby, that is a nice example of recessive genetics. If you both gave your baby a recessive (blue eyed) gene, then your baby can have blue eyes. It is impossible for two people with blue eyes to have a brown eyed baby though. All they have are recessive genes, which will not produce brown eyes. Hazel eyes are possible though.

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BTW, as a child, even an older child I had very blue eyes. My father's eyes can seem to change colors, very distinctly. They go from very green to very blue to gray. When I was a teen mine started doing that too. My eyes never have quite the color intensity that his do though. So yes, eye color can go from blue to green / gray / blue blends later in life. :)

Answer 2

My child's eyes are still blue and he is almost 16 months. His father and I do not have blue eyes. My husband has brown eyes and I have green eyes. My sons eyes have lightened up, before they were a dark gray. I have herd that they stop changing around six months but I know that is not true. It looks to me like my sons eyes are still changing. I think by the time that he is five years old he will green eyes. I have seen some of my pictures from a child and I had blue eyes back then. I just cant figure out when they stop changing.

Answer 3

The vast majority of infants have permanent eye color by three months. A blue-eyed infant may evolve to gray or even green later than that, but very very rarely to a darker color.

Answer 4

6 months. but they will keep changing slightly until hes about 2. but the basic eye color (blue, brown, green, grey, hazel) youll be able to tell by 6 months.

Answer 5

I am in a similar position too-I think it's about 6 mos to 1 yr before the color is set and defined. Congrats on the new Baby!

Answer 6

i had the same experience. we all wondered what my daughters would be... i have brown eyes and my boyfriend has green/blue eyes. when she was first born, her eyes were crystal clear blue. soo bright. and now i think they're definitely staying the color they are: green/blue and she is 10 months. i think you can tell their permanent eye color around 6 months.

Answer 7

My grandma constantly swore she went away to boarding college with blue eyes and got here back that summer season with brown eyes. She replaced into approximately 12 years previous. yet all of my little ones had have been given their genuine eye shade by ability of three.

Answer 8

hiya. i have studied child care and i can say that it takes up to a full year for the colour of a babies eyes to 'come through'. but genetically, usually the darker gene powers the lighter gene, meaning more chances are ur baby will have your darker eyes, although not always. keep looking :))))

Answer 9

my son's eyes were blue at birth and have never changed (he's 6 now). neither one of his parents have blue eyes, but my brother and his father's sister does.

Answer 10

after a month dear and don't forget that your son needs to pick up from one or a combination of both.