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Emfrancesca · 28/05/2023 18:25

My DD is 7 weeks old and her eyes are currently a blue/grey colour (see attached pic).
Did your baby have eyes this colour at this age and did they change or stay the same?
I have always loved brown eyes and I would love hers to be brown too but I can't see them changing from this colour now, I'd have thought they'd be darker if they were going to be brown. I can only see them either turning more blue or maybe green?!

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LadyEloise1 · 28/05/2023 20:05

I thought many babies had dark grey / blue eyes initially and then over time they changed colour.
Whatever their eye colour your baby has beautiful eyes.
Look at those eye lashes - oh my!

Mumof1andacat · 28/05/2023 20:11

From what I know all babies are born with lighter coloured eyes which change after a few months. Eye colour is very much genetic dependant. I have green, dh is brown and ds has hazel colour eyes.

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Emfrancesca · 28/05/2023 20:17

I have brown eyes (maybe I'm bias!) and my partner has greenish/grey eyes. Lots of blue eyes on his side of the family and lots of brown/green on my side.
Obviously it doesn't matter what colour eyes she has but I was just curious to see if anyone had little ones who's eyes started out this colour and gradually turned darker, I find it fascinating!!

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Pteryl · 28/05/2023 20:33

Apparently they can change up to the age of 2! My sister’s were like this and she has very dark brown eyes now. Mine were very dark, and now are a yellowy/hazel colour.

WithASpider · 28/05/2023 20:40

DD1 had eyes a bit darker than that, properly inky blue. They're very dark brown now like her uncle, mine are lighter. Turned by 3 months. DD2's were bright blue and are hazel/green now, didn't settle till she was 2. DS1 also had bright blue and they stayed the same.

Your DD's might still go brown, it just might take a while.

Jomummy1013 · 28/05/2023 20:43

My eldest daughter's eyes were blueish until she was 11 months old, they gradually changed to hazel over the following months. Mine are hazel and her dad's are blue. I would say 7 weeks is extremely early to say what what colour eyes your baby may end up with ❤️

Jomummy1013 · 28/05/2023 20:44

Jomummy1013 · 28/05/2023 20:43

My eldest daughter's eyes were blueish until she was 11 months old, they gradually changed to hazel over the following months. Mine are hazel and her dad's are blue. I would say 7 weeks is extremely early to say what what colour eyes your baby may end up with ❤️

Not 7 months, 7 weeks!! There is lots of time for a baby's eyes to change when they're 7 weeks...Sorry x

Jomummy1013 · 28/05/2023 20:45

I'm going mad. Your child is 7 weeks and I thought I typed 7 months in my first post but I didn't - I'll go away now 😂

baklavagoddess · 28/05/2023 21:13

My daughters looked like that before they turned green

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Emfrancesca · 28/05/2023 21:20

@Jomummy1013 you are making me laugh!! Too much sunshine today eh! 🤣

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Jomummy1013 · 28/05/2023 21:24

@Emfrancesca way way too much sun! 😂Loved it though. ☀️
You'll have to let us know what colour eyes your baby ends up with! I find genetics fascinating. My three children all have ended up with hazel like me and no sign of their dad's blue in there anywhere! Xx

DemBonesDemBones · 28/05/2023 21:37

My youngest child had eyes very similar in colour at that age and they're now a lovely light brown. All my other children have blue eyes.

BungleandGeorge · 28/05/2023 21:42

That colour grey will go brown or hazel I think. They’re too dark for blue. They also take weeks to months to change. Hazel and green are usually slow

slowrunner07 · 28/05/2023 22:09

Both mine had eyes that colour as babies. One now has brown eyes and the other has hazel eyes.

DelphiniumBlue · 28/05/2023 23:22

I've got 3 dc with light brown eyes, sort of hazel with hints of green. They all started off with blue eyes, I think they'd changed by about 6 months or a year ( long time ago!)

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Emfrancesca · 29/05/2023 08:26

Thanks for all of your responses, genetics are fascinating!! The fact their eyes even change colour at all is mind blowing 😂

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JandalsAlways · 29/05/2023 08:31

My baby had this colour eyes until 8 months, then they slowly turned brown.

NadjaCravensworth1 · 29/05/2023 13:51

My DD had blue eyes for ages, then green, and I think only now at 15 months have they settled into a green/brown colour. 7 weeks is very young, lots of changes to come yet!

DogInATent · 29/05/2023 13:57

Blue eyes are double-recessive so must be inherited from both sides. If neither you nor your husband have blue eyes then it's extremely likely (but not certain) that they will change.

Pteryl · 29/05/2023 16:30

DogInATent · 29/05/2023 13:57

Blue eyes are double-recessive so must be inherited from both sides. If neither you nor your husband have blue eyes then it's extremely likely (but not certain) that they will change.

Really? Mine are hazel and my husbands are grey/blue, but our child has piercing blue eyes.

LilySavage · 29/05/2023 16:34

My daughters eyes were blue until she was 9 months old. It was a really mixed bag genetically as to what eye colour she was going to end up with - my husbands eyes are blue, mine are greeny brown and grandparents wise, she had an equal number of blue and brown but 50/50 on each side. Now she’s 2 and her eyes are a beautiful chestnut with green round the outside. Was fascinating to watch them change

blahblahblah1654 · 29/05/2023 16:35

Definitely too early to tell. My son has light blue eyes like mine since he's been 18 months or so. He's 3 now. Before then they were quite dark.

DogInATent · 29/05/2023 18:15

Pteryl · 29/05/2023 16:30

Really? Mine are hazel and my husbands are grey/blue, but our child has piercing blue eyes.

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That works.
It just means your child has inherited a Blue gene from both of you.

If you have one Blue and one Hazel gene then the Hazel is dominant.

Pteryl · 29/05/2023 19:41

DogInATent · 29/05/2023 18:15

That works.
It just means your child has inherited a Blue gene from both of you.

If you have one Blue and one Hazel gene then the Hazel is dominant.

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God knows from where! My dad’s are so dark brown they’re almost black (he’s ginger and very freckled), my mum’s and my brothers are green!

CorvusPurpureus · 29/05/2023 19:55

DogInATent · 29/05/2023 13:57

Blue eyes are double-recessive so must be inherited from both sides. If neither you nor your husband have blue eyes then it's extremely likely (but not certain) that they will change.

No, because two dark eyed parents could each have a recessive blue eye gene.

If they both pass it on, dc would have blue eyes.

OTOH, two blue eyed parents are highly unlikely NOT to have a blue eyed dc. Because neither of them is likely to have a dark eye gene (or it would have dominated & they would HAVE dark eyes!).

GCSE level biology obviously, but as a rough rule of thumb.

Me: blue-grey
Xh: dark brown
Dc1: hazel (like paternal grandmother)
Dc2: blue-grey
Dc3: dark brown

My family are ALL blue eyed as far back as my grandparents, xh's a mixture - so all bets were off. The recessive blue gene from their dark eyed father surfaced in dc2 but not the others.

OP - my eldest's were dark blue like that & are now the most beautiful golden-green hazel, with rings of dark grey. Your baby's could go any colour at all - but second that the eyelashes are amazing!