I just had twin boys a week and a half ago. Their eye color is a dark brownish color. I have heard that if a baby is born with brown eyes the color will not change. I was just wondering if this is true or not....I havent found any evidence online contradicting OR confirming this myth, so I would appreciate any help! Thanks so much!
2007-08-30 11:22:44 · 11 answers · asked by mommasquarepants 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
They will stay brown. A good number of caucasian infants are born with blue eyes that later change color. However if they were born with brown eyes, they will stay brown. Why? From about.com:
Why? Melanin, the brown pigment molecule that colors your skin, hair, and eyes, hadn't been fully deposited in the irises of your eyes or darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light. The iris is the colored part of the eye that controls the amount of light that is allowed to enter. Some other animals are born with blue eyes, too, such as kittens.
Melanin is a protein. Like other proteins, the amount and type you get is coded in your genes. Irises containing a large amount of melanin appear black or brown. Less melanin produces green, gray, or light brown eyes. If your eyes contain very small amounts of melanin, they will appear blue or light gray. People with albinism have no melanin in their irises and their eyes may appear pink because the blood vessels in the back of their eyes reflect light.
Melanin production generally increases during the first year of a baby's life, leading to a deepening of eye color.
Hope that helped!
2007-08-30 11:33:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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I just had twin boys a week and a half ago. Their eye color is a dark brownish color. I have heard that if a baby is born with brown eyes the color will not change. I was just wondering if this is true or not....I havent found any evidence online contradicting OR confirming this myth, so I would...
2015-08-10 06:35:34 · answer #3 · answered by Marco 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have three boys. My oldest was born with dark blue eyes and his turned into a golden brown, kind of like brandy. My other two were born with brown eyes, and they both still have brown eyes, one chocolate color and the last almost black. They are 13, 10, and 8. The youngest's eyes have gradually turned that dark but have been that way since he was about 4 or 5.
~I have grey-blue eyes and everybody in my family as far back as anybody knows has had (various shades) blue eyes. My husband has dark brown eyes but there are a variety of colors in his background.~
2007-08-30 11:34:59 · answer #4 · answered by Barefoot Chick 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot of it depends on your ethnicity:
http://whalonlab.msu.edu/Student_Webpages/Babies/The%20Sense%20of%20Sight.html
As for what eye color your baby is born with, Caucasian babies are usually born with blue or blue gray eyes, while non Caucasian newborns' are generally brown. But permanent eye color, which depends on what color genes a baby inherits from both parents, can change over the course of the first year. So if a blue-eyed newborn hasn't inherited that color gene from both her mother and her father (who don't have to be blue-eyed themselves), her baby blues will turn brown or green several months down the line. (Brown or green eyes, on the other hand, won't turn blue, since the blue-eyed gene is recessive.).
http://www.babycenter.com/400_will-my-babys-eyes-stay-this-color_505677_1001.bc?Ad=com.bc.common.AdInfo%40495d5e91
David Geller, pediatrician
Maybe, maybe not. Babies of African and Asian descent are usually born with brown eyes that stay brown. Caucasian babies are often born with steel gray or dark blue eyes; they may stay gray or blue or turn green, hazel, or brown by the time they're 9 months old. That's because a child's irises (the colored part of the eye) may gain more pigment in the months after she's born, but they won't get "lighter" or more blue. (Green, hazel, and brown eyes actually have more pigment than grey or blue eyes, even if they appear lighter in color.)
2007-08-30 11:45:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not true RPOKER
Babies are usually born with a short term colour but can change anywhere between 2 weeks and 2 years. Most babies are born with blue eyes which then turn dark but it is less common for babies with dark eyes to change, but it can happen. My nephews eyes just changed from dark blue to brown and he is 4 years old. If they are dark now chances are they will stay that way or turn to hazel.
2007-08-30 11:31:26 · answer #6 · answered by chook230187 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not too sure where I fit into this. I had two daughters but their eyes didn't really look blue. One was a deep gray while the other was more of a grayish-green. The one with the deep gray stayed that way (she's 17 now) but the other one's eyes became lighter and greener.
2007-08-30 11:49:49 · answer #7 · answered by RoVale 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The eye color of babies does change - sometimes just a bit sometimes a lot. Most babies are born with blue eyes, but change very soon. Your babies eyes might lighten up a bit, but more likely than not will remain a shade of brown.
2007-08-30 11:32:10 · answer #8 · answered by Morra 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I had one kid with brown eyes at birth. They turned blue and then green. They did not turn green until she was about 3.
My other child was born with dark blue eyes and they stayed blue, just lighter.
2007-08-30 11:38:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, i dont agree with that at all.
My eyes have changed color at least 4 times that ive known of, during my lifetime.
I was born with lilac eyes, they changed to black, which changed to brown when i was about 6, hazel at about 8, and since i was 11, they have been a very bright green.
the color of your eyes as a child can, and most likely will change as you grow older and mature.
2007-08-30 11:32:45 · answer #10 · answered by Cara 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋