Eye colour

[Emfrancesca]

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?!

I'd say they were still "baby eyes" and will change. DDs eyes were that colour and went dark brown-green quite quickly. Ds started the same colour and went light blue gradually over the first year.

DH has dark brown eyes and I have very light blue so we had no idea what to expect for our DC's.

What do you mean, "No"?
I just summarised everything you explain into a shorter and more concise statement. You have to inherit the recessive gene from both parents.

Because, in this situation, one parent has Hazel eyes there's at least a 50% chance the child will not have blue eyes.

@DogInATent ok, so both parents can be carrying a recessive blue eyed gene regardless of their eye colour. You cannot rule out blue eyes for the dc of dark eyed parents (although in a family where no one has had them for generations, it's probably unlikely).

You CAN rule out dark eyes if both parents are blue eyed - usually, caveats apply.

So the OP's dc could have any coloured eyes. That's precisely how recessive genes work. They manifest unexpectedly 25% of the time wherever two parents BOTH have the same recessive gene - which may have been quietly unexpressed but passed on in either or both family tree for generations.

Oh - yes, you're correct that it's around 50% that the dc will have inherited a dominant dark eyed gene from one parent. Which will then determine eye colour.

There's a handy explanation (and table) of eye colour inheritance at:

Hmm, the link dropped:
https://www.johnoconnor.co.nz/eye-colour/

I have black eyes (very dominant gene) and his father has blue/grey eyes. My son was born with black eyes from day one. Dark gene usually trumps the recessive colours

Both myself and DH have dark brown eyes. Our DS was born with blue eyes, by about 1 year they had turned blue/grey, and by the time he was 2 they had turned green and have been that colour ever since. We also both have dark brown hair and he has dark blonde hair. He is definitely ours though 😂

My sons 6 weeks old and I can’t figure out if he’s got blue eyes or if they can turn hazel like his brothers 🤔

Father have hazel eyes and I the mother have blue eyes - our first born have his dads hazel eyes

My DS had brilliant pale blue eyes as a baby, they changed when he was about a year old and are hazel. DD had brilliant pale blue eyes that looked the same colour and now has one blue one hazel.

Both my brown eyed boys had that colour as newborns. I have green eyes and their dads are brown. I thought brown generally ‘won’ genetically.

DH has hazel but they were brown when he was a baby. I have blue.