Eye Colour

[sammysam]

Does anyone know when a babies eye colour should change by?

Everyone in my dps and my family (except my mum) has brown eyes and DD (9 months today!) has blue/gry eyes.

Strange so do you think they might still change?

Perfectly possible to have blue eyes from brown-eyed parents.

My dd's eyes didn't settle on her final colour until she was 1.

DD1's eyes did not become their final colour, green, until she was 2 years old.

It's 6 weeks for kittens . Think littlelapin is right they won't change now. they sound lovely

The following information may help:-

Odd as it sounds, it?s much more common for brown-eyed parents to have blue-eyed children than for blue-eyed parents to have brown-eyed children.

That?s because brown eyes are dominant, and the eye color likely will have already shown up in a parent if the trait is in the gene pool. So absent the dominant brown-eyed gene, blue-eyed parents are likely to just keep on producing blue-eyed children.

However, blue-eyed parents can have brown-eyed children, although genetic processes for that possibility aren?t at this time well understood.

But why do blue eyes show up in children of brown-eyed people? This is because genes for blue eyes are ?lurkers.? These recessive genes stay in the background until a certain combination of genetic material occurs?i.e., a contribution of a recessive blue-eyed gene from each brown-eyed parent.

Thus, even though genes producing brown eyes are dominant, it?s more common for brown-eyed parents to have blue-eyed children than for blue-eyed parents to have brown-eyed children.

A pigment called melanin determines the color of the eye.

dh and I have brown eyes. ds has blue eyes. My father remembers having blue eyes up to about the age of 4 - then they went brown. I am currently losing the bet with mil that ds's eyes will change - he is now nearly 5.

DP has dark brown eyes almost black (suitable for him really, but thats another thread), I have blue eyes.

DD and DS both have brown eyes although DS' are slightly lighter.

They brown gene must be strong as both my parents have blue eyes but only one of his parents have brown eyes, his Mum, his Dad has blue.

DD had bright blue eyes until she was over a year old, and now seem to have settled on a very interesting hybrid - blue in the middle, rimmed with brown. She's 2.5 now and they've been like this for over a year.
I have dark brown, dh has blue.

I have very dark brown as does son. Hubby has blue grey eyes and daughter had blue but somedays they are grey.

My eyes are very dark brown (chocolate)and DH's are greeny brown. DD 7 months are same as me so can't see them changing but DS has the opposite of Bibithrees DD. His are predominatly blue but the pupil is rimmed with hazel. Looks almost tie dyed.
Funnily my Grandfather has the same DH has similar thing with his green rimmed with brown.

My DS had really deep blue eyes up until he was 18 months old when they changed to green!!!

My DD's eyes changed to brown almost straight away.

I have brown eyes and my Dh has green eyes so we have got one of each!!!

from wikipidia

Eye color change
Typically, Caucasian newborns have blue eyes, which change to green, light blue, light brown and dark brown, as they grow older. It is thought that exposure to light after birth triggers the production of melanin in the iris of the eye. By three years of age, the eyes produce and store enough melanin to have their natural shade. While changes in eye color of infants are more common, even in adults, eye color changes in approximately 12% of the people as they get older.

DSs and DD all had blue-grey eyes until past their first birthdays. DS1 has brown eyes, DS2 has hazel eyes and DD currently has hazel rimmed in steel blue.

Oh, and eye colour is more complicated than the blue/brown recessive/dominant thing. IIRC, more than 2 genes are actually involved in determining eye colour and Tamum has explained it many times

We have lots of different colours in our house..

Me hazel/green
DP blue
DD1 blue
DS1 hazel/green
DS2 blue but at the grand old age of 8 they turned green....they go different shades.
DS3 blue
DS4 blue
DS5 Very dark brown-almost black looking!
DD2 blue
DS6 blue

I am waiting to see if any of the other blue eyes younger children turn green too! I had never heard of them changing as they get older!x