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Will DDs eyes stay this blue ?? ...

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Disenchanted3 · 18/03/2009 19:56

she is 3 months old now and they are bright blue

they are so bright,both her dad and I have dark brown eyes, as do her brothers

They amaze me and secretly wan them to stay

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luvaduck · 18/03/2009 21:50

here

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UndertheBoredwalk · 18/03/2009 21:50

DD had amazingly piercing blue eyes as a baby, her dad has blue eyes and I have green so expected them to stay. Her eyes are now very green, they changed when she was around 5yrs!
So still plenty of time for changes
Mine were the same, I was blue until I was around 6yrs old.

luvaduck · 18/03/2009 21:50

btw she is gorgeous!

MyDingaling · 18/03/2009 21:56

I have dark brown eyes and hair, Dh has green eyes and brown hair.
DD1 is 3.10 and has bright blue eyes and blonde hair, as does DD2 but she is only 7 months so this could change (but I hope not!)

spinspinsugar · 19/03/2009 11:17

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Bunch · 19/03/2009 11:25

I have very blue eyes and brown hair. Everyone comments on my eyes. Both DD and DS have them too! I've warned them both that the most common thing I get asked is "are you wearing coloured contact lenses?". That gets very annoying esp as I do wear lenses but just plain ones!

silverfrog · 19/03/2009 11:31

both my dds have very blue eyes.

i have green eyes, and dh has blue.

there is potential for them to keep their blue eyes (dd1 is 4, dd2 is 2), but I had blue eyes until I was 4+, and so the jury is still out for me.

everyone tells me that it is unlikely the dds eyes will turn brown, but my brothers eyes did just that (his were blue until he was 3 ish, then opne turned brown - the other stayed blue until he was about 5!)

dh is the only on ein his family to have blue eyes, the rest are all brown.

so we are obviously all freaks in this house

Wheelybug · 19/03/2009 11:34

My dd1 has very bright large blue eyes - which is lovely as her late grandfather who she never knew had the same eyes.

dd2 is a week old today and has very dark blue eyes which I don't think are going to turn into the same sort.

I found a website the other day that you could put in your eye colour, partner's eye colour and grandparents eye colour and it would tell you what eye colours your children could have. I was convinced dd2's eyes were going to go brown but if they do DH is going to have to ask some questions .

Will try and find the site.

Wheelybug · 19/03/2009 11:35

museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

SoupDragon · 19/03/2009 11:37

What MrsTittleMouse says isn't quite true. Eye colour depends on more than that.

MargotBeauregarde · 19/03/2009 11:37

"Wow never heard of dark brown eyed parents a and blue eyed baby?"

it's alarming to me that people think this. My x and I were both brown eyed but Bb. Both of us had one parent with blue eyes so we both HAD to carry the gene for blue eyes.

My dc have blue eyes. they each had a 1 in 4 chance of having blue eyes. I have 2 children. Both have blue eyes so there you go. VERY possible. I hope people don't think I'm lying about who their father is.

MollieO · 19/03/2009 11:38

When ds was born his eyes were completely black (couldn't distinguish between pupil and iris). Then they turned navy blue and then grey/greeny-blue which is what they have stayed.

silverfrog · 19/03/2009 11:40

fab site, wheelybug.

at last something that factors in green eyes - have known about the rown/blue dominance/recessive thing forever, but never found anyone who will hazard a guess at where green fits in!

CatchaStar · 19/03/2009 11:41

Dd was born with blue eyes and now at 21 months they're an even brighter blue. I have bright blue eyes, but her dad has such dark brown eyes, they almost look black. My parents both have brown eyes and mine have always been blue. But my two sisters are brown.

Has someone else in the family got blue eyes? They may well stay, perhaps they've been passed onto her from another family member? It's not just you and dh that she'll take after, the whole gene pool's in there lol!

SoupDragon · 19/03/2009 11:42

By tamum on Tue 01-Feb-05 22:45
I hate to say it, but although the basic genetics is fine here, the idea that eye colour is determined by a single gene and that brown eyes are dominant over blue is completely wrong. It's a myth that has been perpetuated in loads of basic biology text books and can cause all sorts of problems as we see here Eye colour has been shown to be polygenic, so it is controlled by multiple genes. This makes it impossible to predict eye colour in offspring with complete certainty. It vaguely follows the "textbook" pattern in lots of families but by no means all.

From a thread here and thre's a website here

Kewcumber · 19/03/2009 11:49

I have hazel eyes - predominantly brown with added yellow grey and green.

Where do they fit in or am I just a freak?

Chalkpink · 19/03/2009 11:52

Both dh and I have dark brown eyes. DD1 is very dark, DD2 a slightly lighter brown.Neither was ever really what you would called blue.
No 3, DS1 aged 22 months is my beautiful blue eyed boy. I do hope they stay like that. He is also very blond but I'm expecting his hair to darken as he gets older - there's certainly no blond in the family.
My father and Dhs mum have blue eyes so I guess that backs up the genetics mentioned in previously posts.

christywhisty · 19/03/2009 12:03

My DD 11 had bright blue eyes when she was a baby, now they are grey like DH. Both I and ds have very dark brown eyes like my dad.

Ivegotaheadache · 19/03/2009 12:11

I have very dark eyes, dh has blue eyes. dd1 is blue, dd2 and ds are brown.
All grandparents are blue except my dad.

Wasn't expecting to have a blue eyed child, and thought dd1's eyes would change to brown but she's 9 and they're still blue.

Also, she doesn't look like the other two at all (same father!). If you saw them all together you'd know that dd2 and ds are brother and sister and they look like me more. DD1 looks just like they're dad, nothing at all like me. People assume she is a friend of dd2, or I'm the baby sitter!!

Ivegotaheadache · 19/03/2009 12:11

Their, not they're !!

thumbwitch · 19/03/2009 12:24

They might stay blue, as you have heard from some other it is genetically possible.

Or they might slowly change - my blue-eyed sis's DD3 started off blue, but a darker blue than DD2 (whose stayed blue) and by 1yo, they were going this amazing silvery brown colour - like a Weimaraner dog - they are getting progressively darker brown but still haven't gone completely and she is 2.5yo now.

There is no age limit on when they can change, contrary to popular belief - she might be 12 before they completely settle!

luvaduck · 19/03/2009 18:23

soupdragon - was trying to say that earlier but didn't explain very well! its lots of genes not one - so you can't just be Bb etc...v

duchesse · 19/03/2009 18:28

My mother has blue eyes, my father has very dark brown eyes. His father's eyes were also very dark, his mother had blue eyes.

All 5 of us children bar one have blue, green or blue-green eyes.

Of their 10 grandchildren, only one has brown eyes (his mother is my only sibling with brown eyes, the child's father has very bright blue eyes, and his two siblings have blue eyes), all the others have bright blue.

Tis fascinating.

loupiots · 19/03/2009 19:02

I've got very dark brown eyes(as has his dad) and was really shocked at my son's bright blue eyes and just assumed they would darken. He's just turned three and they are still as blue as ever, so it can happen. (uploaded a quick pic in my profile to demonstrate.)

BriocheDoree · 20/03/2009 11:58

I know someone with red hair, brown eyes and DH brown hair, brown eyes. Her daughter has blue eyes. It's a recessive gene, so as long as you are both carriers doesn't matter if you don't have blue eyes yourself.
For the record, I have brown hair hazel eyes, DH brown hair blue eyes. DD has dark blond hair brown eyes, DS is a beautiful pale yellow blond with bright blue eyes and gorgeous bone china skin. He'll never keep it! Either the blue eyes or the blond hair will go, I'm sure!!

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