Baby’s eye colour

[championofdance]

DC2 is a few months old and his eyes have changed from newborn blue to a dark brown. DH has very blue eyes, my eyes are mostly grey but can sometimes look green or blue. DC1 has eyes like mine. I didn’t think it was very common for 2 blue eyed people to have a brown eyed baby so I just wanted to see how many other people have experienced this.

The other way round …. But

Mum and dad both brown eyes

3 kids Blue eyes

My mother and father = Green and brown respectively
My brothers and I : all blue

When my DCs were born I was surprised at how dark their eyes were, almost black. I thought that was it since I'd always been told that baby eyes only get darker but never lighter.

Fast forward a couple of years, those dark eyes have turned into the most crystalline blue. Go figure. Not that I'm complaining. DC2 also has white blond hair despite both parents having brown hair as adults (his may darken still but I'm hoping not !)

But yeah, genetics is complicated. Look up the story about black people giving birth to white kids and vice versa, there's even twins with one white, blond, blue haired and the other typically Black. The wonders of genetic !

My understanding is that eye colour is very complicated. It is not just a case of 2 blue eyed people having a blue eyed child. There is a history of genetics through both sides of the family. My GPs both had blue eyes, had blue eyed children. My DPs were blue and brown and I'm green.

My ex was blue as is DS.

I think you just get what you're given a bit like whether you have a boy or a girl!

I have brown eyes, DH blue. Out of our 4 children, only one has brown eyes, which surprised us.

Brown eyes can carry a recessive blue gene.
My mums family, 7 dc all have blue eyes (gps were blue). They all married people with blue eyes so all 30 something of us have various shades of blue. A few of the younger generation have married people with blue eyes so there are now some brown eyes.

Perhaps the older generation had brown eyes?

Brown eyed children from two blue eyed parents is statistically unusual enough that I would seriously doubt parentage in those cases....sorry. I'm sure it happens but not as much as fathers bringing up other mens children without them knowing.

Like pp my two were born with black eyes, shocking considering we are both very light eyed. Two years later both have lightened. One blue and one green just like their parents so not so complicated in our case. Though I has no idea eyes could get lighter over darker.

I remember panicking in Biology at school when told you needed a blue eyed parent for a blilue eyed child.
I have brown eyes, as has my DM. My DF has hazel eyes and my DB has the brightest blue.
In those days, pre-internet, it was much harder to find out information quietly ( I didn't want to suggest to anyone that my brother was illegitimate) but I ended up in the reference section at the City Library and found out about recessive genes and that it was possible for the apparently pure brown eyed parent to pass on a recessive blue eyed gene.
School science (in those days) really over-simplified complex ideas.

I have green eyes, DH has blue eyes. Our DS has really brown eyes.

Also what do people count as green eyes? Because I've seen green/blue & green/brown counted as green.

But yeah, genetics is complicated. Look up the story about black people giving birth to white kids and vice versa, there's even twins with one white, blond, blue haired and the other typically Black. The wonders of genetic !

There is a family who have done the twins thing twice.

scubby.com/couple-gives-birth-set-black-white-twins-seven-years-later-another-miracle/

@Thecomfortador

Interesting that grey eyes might be malfunctioning brown. I have brown and DP blue eyes. Ds1 has dark grey eyes. I wondered if he had one brown gene from me and the rest all blue so it wasn't quite enough to go brown. They definitely don't match mine or DPs.

I have exactly the same situation with my dd.

[quote Chocolatebuttercream]@BabyRace same with me, my brother, and all 3 of my kids.[/quote]
How interesting. Dh and I were both very blonde as kids but dd has the richest brunette/auburn hair. Genetics are amazing!

I have blue eyes. DH has brown eyes. One of my DC has blue eyes, bluer than mine strangely! Other DS had blue eyes that have gone green!

OP what colour eyes are your parents? DD has blue eyes, I have hazel, my mum has blue and DH has blue. So I obviously have one blue eye and one brown eye gene but express the brown eye gene. If you have two blue eyed parents, then it really is v v unusual, but if one of your parents has brown eyes and the other blue then unless that parent also has a blue-eyed grandparents its more likely your eyes are really brown but look different in the light. (mine are a weird green/mud/brown colour, so I'll be curious if number two comes out the same colour of also ends up blue eyed)