my baby is 6 months old. he has beautiful blue eyes. but me an d my husband has brown eyes. no one has blue eyes in our family. how come it is possible that my baby got blue eyes? everyone is asking me about that . i don't know what to say. please help me.
2007-10-05 11:40:53 · 14 answers · asked by queen s 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
While this might be a quandary the truth is that the genes for blue eyes may have been hidden in you and your husband and just not seen because brown eye color is dominant. The website I have below is an interesting lesson on eye color inheritance and can give the likely eye color of your progeny. And eye color is not fixed until about age 3.
2007-10-05 11:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by Ethel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't have to do with what color eyes just you and your husband have...but what both of your parents and both sets of grand parents have. It has to do with what traits are in your family pool. Both of my parents have brown eyes and I have bright green eyes. There is a website you can go to...I can't remember the address but if you google eye color prediction you should be able to find it. Where you put in the color eyes for you and your honey, both your parents, and their parents and then it will give you a percentile for green, blue and brown eyes. Just as a guesstamate of course. I did it and my baby has 50% brown, 20% green and 30% blue. But when I did it making myself the baby I was at 50% brown, 40% blue and only 10% green and I fell in that 10% with my green eyes. So you really just never know. They say that by the time a child is two their eye color is permanant. My honey had one golden brown eye and one bright blue eye up until he was almost 2 and a half and then they turned brown and now he has rich gorgeous chocolate brown eyes. So only time will tell!
2007-10-05 13:15:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only give my experience, but I am Caucasian and my mother insists I was born with brown eyes and never had blue, so I don't believe it is true that all Caucasian babies are born with blue eyes.
I have 2 children with the bluest eyes, via their father. I was surprised about it, and their pediatrician said she wouldn't bet on them staying blue until after they were 6 months old. Well, they both had their blue eyes stay. (Neither my parents nor my grandparents have blue eyes). My sister has hazel eyes and her husband has brown. Their son has bright blue eyes also. None of my nephew's grandparents even have blue eyes. He has 1 great- grandmother on his father's side with blue eyes and they must have passed down recessively through her. I think it is less common to happen this way, but it CAN happen.
2007-10-06 12:12:41 · answer #3 · answered by Deborah H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most babies are born with blue eyes. Your baby will most likely grow out of his blue and they will turn into brown ones like you and your husband's. This doesn't always happen though, I never grew out of my blue eyes and my parents and all 5 of my siblings have hazel or green eyes. The blue might be in your genes as well, it's recessive if I remember correctly but there is a small chance he might keep them, but most likely they'll turn brown. ^_^
2007-10-05 11:59:00 · answer #4 · answered by Grace 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most babies are born with blue eyes (not all, but most) and need to be exposed to sunlight i believe in order to 'develop' their colour properly. However, just because you and your partner have brown eyes it doesnt mean that the babies will be brown, there will be several different eye colours passed down through the generations and baby can have any of them.
2007-10-05 11:59:48 · answer #5 · answered by leanne j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother has green eyes, but my mother, father, sister and I all have brown eyes. So it is possible for you child to have different colored eyes than you and your husband. If I'm not mistaken, babies eyes can be one color when they're born and can change color as they get older. His eyes may not stay blue.
2007-10-05 12:01:51 · answer #6 · answered by sandrea91483 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have 5 children all my childrens eyes are hazel like me and my husbands except my 10 month old he has blue eyes. but my dad has blue eyes. sometimes the genes move farther down the line i was shocked after 5 children my last has blue eyes
2007-10-05 12:02:50 · answer #7 · answered by milli9071 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kclight is right!
My daughter had blue eyes which eventually turned brown.
2007-10-05 11:50:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All Caucasian babies are born with blue eyes. The color can develop within the first two years of life.
2007-10-05 11:47:44 · answer #9 · answered by KC 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
all babies are born with blue eyes......they may change color still my nephews didnt change till he was 8 months or so... so its very possible they will still change dont worry...if they do stay blue someone in your family must have had blue eyes...grandparents? aunts? uncles?
2007-10-05 12:09:11 · answer #10 · answered by jscangel18 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋