When did your babies' eye color change?

My husband has dark brown eyes, I have blue/green eyes. The boys eyes are a beautiful dark blue, almost violet. Hubby's grandma's eyes were that color, and my dad and brothers also have blue eyes. The babies are almost 6 months, I was just wondering if by now that is their true color or can they still change? My nephew's eyes didn't change till he was a year old, but when do most babies eyes have their true color? When did your babies' eyes change? Thanks!

 

DD3's eyes changed around 10 - 12 months of age. They aren't supposed to change that late, but they did. DD1 and DD2 changed to their current color around 3 months.

 

Mine hasn't. they were born blue/gray color and I'm so glad it stayed

 

I read the doctor confirmed that they can change anytime in the first 2 years.
I do have a good friend who was born with blue eyes that changed to brown when she was 18 months.
I guess you just never know!

 

QUOTE(vivalalexa @ Jun 5 2008, 08:28 AM) [snapback]811781[/snapback]
I read the doctor confirmed that they can change anytime in the first 2 years.
I do have a good friend who was born with blue eyes that changed to brown when she was 18 months.
I guess you just never know!



Really?? Damn, that was the one thing I'm so glad they got from their dad are their eye color. I have brown eyes, but they have blue sometimes grey eyes. Soooo pretty! I hope they don't change

 

I think the twins stayed the same. Emily's changed from a blueish color to a clear-sparkling green...very pretty. She got her eyes from her dad. The twins both have blue eyes!!!! I would of been happy with one, but nope..both! I have blue eyes. That is only thing that have the same of beside their feet.

I do pray they will stay and think they will.

April

 

Our older son's eyes changed around 10ish months to brown (like mine) I was holding out hope that he'd get a grey/blue color b/c they stayed that color for so long, but then they changed to brown.

Here's a "eye color predictor" that's interesting. Looks like if either you or your DH have brown eyes, there is a 50% chance your children will, too. I'm holding out hope that my twins will get my DH's beautiful green eyes, but it's not looking good!


http://www.docshop.com/2008/01/04/what-col...-babys-eyes-be/

And this link is even better - you plug in your eye color, DH's eye color, both sets of grandparents and siblings - and it gives you the probabilities of having children with the different colors of eyes.

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCal...calculator.html

 

DD1's eyes have changed to a lighter blue. DD2's eyes are sort of brownish now. I'm not sure if they will keep changing or if they are done. They started changing around 2 months old.

 

so far neither of them have changed..DS was born with blue eyes (although they are not as bright blue as they were) and DD was actually born with brown eyes that have just gotten darker - DH has green eyes and I have brown...

 

I love this question. I knew either you or DH (or both) had to have brown eyes.

I was told the color is usually set by one year but can change up 2 years of age (generally a change in shade).

I'm brown-eyed (half Asian) and DH is blue. I have a step sibling with green eyes(from my Dad's side although he is brown eyed as is my mother) and DH's mother has green and Dh's father is blue.

Both of boys have greenish hazel eyes. Turned from blue/gray around 8 months to more of a green then more of a blue/green hazel now. Doc said they should not turn brown but may change shades of green up to 2 years of age.

I think an interesting fact in my family is that out of DH(blue) and me(brown), SIL(brown) and her husband(blue), and other SIL (blue) and husband (brown) all of 5 of the grandkids have non-brown eyes...3 have blue and mine have green. Go figure because the odds would be that more than one would have brown eyes.

 

QUOTE(mama23boys @ Jun 5 2008, 12:07 PM) [snapback]811873[/snapback]
Our older son's eyes changed around 10ish months to brown (like mine) I was holding out hope that he'd get a grey/blue color b/c they stayed that color for so long, but then they changed to brown.

Here's a "eye color predictor" that's interesting. Looks like if either you or your DH have brown eyes, there is a 50% chance your children will, too. I'm holding out hope that my twins will get my DH's beautiful green eyes, but it's not looking good!
http://www.docshop.com/2008/01/04/what-col...-babys-eyes-be/

And this link is even better - you plug in your eye color, DH's eye color, both sets of grandparents and siblings - and it gives you the probabilities of having children with the different colors of eyes.

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCal...calculator.html


This is really cool. I have blue eyes, parents have blue eyes, sibling has blue eyes - all I can contribute is blue eyes. DH has hazel eyes. I can never figure out how hazel works on these charts? If I put it in as green, it says my babies have a 66% chance of green eyes and a 33% chance of blue eyes.

 

Ana's started to change around 7 months. Both started with grey/blue. Ana's stayed grey/blue until 7ish months when they started to look greenish and are now greenish/grey/brown hazel eyes (she has her daddy's eyes). Her greenish hazel eyes go well with her auburn hair. Meara's stayed blue but have change the hue over time. Now they are bright caribbean water blue... with her dark brown hair its very striking.

I also read somewhere that eye color can change after 12 months, but I hope M keeps her blue eyes (DH's sister has dark hair and blue eyes, and my sister has bright blue eyes (blond hair)- so its possible).

 

My Pedi said that brown eyes will stay brown, but blue eyes can change usually up to a year old.

Both started out with that slate grey color. Then DS changed to a light brown (DH has dark brown) around 2 months. DD's have a blue/grey hue. My eyes are ?? They change with the shirt I'm wearing (blue if blue shirt, green if green shirt, and grey/blue w/brown specs otherwise)???!!!

I really hope that DD's eyes don't change or go more blue. With her complexion and hair color, she'll be a bombshell!!

 

I read somewhere (can't remember where now) that eye color is more comlex than once thought, so it is more than just the one gene from each parent.

I have blue eyes, DH has grey/hazel and our son has dark brown - according to that website that is impossible - and I am sure it is not the mailman!! :laughing:

 

I just wanted to throw out there that my eyes were very dark brown right up until I went to college. Now some days they're brown, some days greenish, but they've been getting lighter the older I get (the same with all my cousins-it's definitely genetic). So anything's possible

 

DS's went from blue to greenish/hazel at about 6 or 7 months

DD has had darker eyes since about 4 months they are brown

sandra

 

I love those eye color predictors because they always give us a 7-11% chance of having a blue-eyed kid and we already have two of them. It makes me feel like we won a prize or something.

The girls have blue eyes that haven't changed. They started out a little darker than they are now and they were sometimes grey and sometimes hazel but they're overall color has remained blue and that's where they are the vast majority of days.

Dax had blue eyes at birth but they started darkening by about 3 months old. They were brown before he turned 6 months.

I have read that there is the rare child who's eyes will change up to 3 years old but that's usually from blue to something like hazel. Not blue to brown. I'm happy we are finally out of the woods for the girls because I so wanted them to keep those blue eyes!

 

I was born with brown eyes and they stayed brown through high school and changed to green around the time I was in college! They are still green.

 

My daughter will soon be 4, and her eye color is STILL changing! She started with blue, then blue-gray by 6 months, then she had some green and brown highlights by a year, so we started calling them hazel. But, since then, the blue and gray have vanished, and most of the green is gone. They are still light brown, but I'd say that they are more brown than hazel now! I wonder if she will end up with light brown eyes, or dark brown like me!

My BIL had green eyes until he was in his 20's, when they went blue over a short time period...

One of my twins has very blue eyes, and the other has dark blue/gray eyes... I wonder if his will eventually end up brown like his sister's?

 

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Both of boys have greenish hazel eyes. Turned from blue/gray around 8 months to more of a green then more of a blue/green hazel now. Doc said they should not turn brown but may change shades of green up to 2 years of age.


I have to disagree with your ped.

I have light brown/greenish hazel eyes. DH has blue. Our boys eyes didn't turn until after age 1. Aaron's turned green after age 1, but have just gotten darker and darker. Now it's hard to tell if they are army green or light brown. Jacob's were blue until age 1 and started to get darker. Now they are a bizarre blue/green/brown mix, but at first appearance look brown. From my own experience I know that the brown can "develop" well after age 1.

 

I'm mystified by the whole eye color thing, because blue eyes are supposedly recessive, yet both our DDs wound up with them even though I have green eyes and my parents are brown and hazel. Wouldn't that mean there is a brown gene somewhere that should be coming out? But every single person in DH's family has blue eyes, so maybe blue just won from sheer strength of numbers.

 

My girls are just goign from blue to brown right now at 15 months.

 

QUOTE(mandyfish3 @ Jun 6 2008, 11:53 AM) [snapback]813902[/snapback]
My girls are just goign from blue to brown right now at 15 months.



Did you have any idea that they would change to brown? I mean did they have brown flecks in them or something that made you think they might change. My dh has 2 other children and they both have brown eyes. My dh eyes are more of a hazel brown color. Right now the girls eyes are very blue. I would love for them to stay blue but I am not counting on it but I think my dh is. This whole eye color thing is amazing to me. I have very green eyes... my mom has green eyes and my dad has very blue eyes and my brother has blue eyes.