baby's eyes

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Cl · 29/10/2001 14:37

When do a baby's eyes become their true colour. A friend with green eyes whose husband has brown eyes is just wondering if she's really going to have a blue eyed boy forever!

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Chanelno5 · 29/10/2001 15:59

Cl - going by my own kids, so I don't know if this is medically right, I would say that by about 6 months babies' eyes are the colour they are going to be - your own eyes by then are, of course, blood shot and dark rimmed (all those lovely sleepless nights!)

Bells2 · 29/10/2001 16:16

We struggled to find out the correct answer on this one but the threshold which most "experts" seem to agree on is 12 months. I have to confess to being pleased when our son reached this point and his bright blue eyes were intact!

Pupuce · 29/10/2001 22:46

I have also heard that by 12 months they don't change anymore. (there might be some exceptions of course!)

Bloss · 30/10/2001 01:57

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Eulalia · 30/10/2001 07:58

Yes 12 months or even sooner. You can usually tell that brown ones will be so early on. My son did have 'blue' eyes at birth but they were actually a lovely violet colour and they soon changed to a very deep brown. I'd say your friend's boy is definately blue eyed.

Kjlkate · 30/10/2001 14:22

My son is green-eyed but was blue for a long time - definitely longer than 12 months, but then again, there was a long phase when they were greeny-blue depending on the light till they settled on green somewhere around rising two, from memory.

Robinw · 30/10/2001 22:12

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Sparky · 01/11/2001 23:10

I have a one year old who has blue eyes but I have green and my partner has brown, with no family history of blue eyes. We have been hoping his eyes will stay blue. I asked my midwife yesterday and she said they will definitely stay blue now.

Copper · 02/11/2001 12:52

My youngest was born with brown eyes (the others were blue and went brown) - but he has the deepest lushest brown eyes imaginable , with lashes to die for. Envy.....

Alison222 · 02/11/2001 13:10

Eye colour is genetically inherited, and with few exceptions, if both parents have blue eyes the children will too. Green eyes apparently count as a variation of blue. If either or both parents have brown eyes they could be either blue or brown.

Jodee · 02/11/2001 19:17

Copper, if I had a pound for every time somone commented on my son's eyelashes I would be loaded! Why is it always the boys? We call him The Giraffe!

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