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Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

Will my baby's eyes change color? When? And what color will they be?

Re: Will my baby's eyes change color? When? And what color will they be?

The Bump Expert

Parents ask me this one all the time. I used to say wait four to six months, but we've seen babies change at up to nine months. The best predictor is parent's eye color -- if both parents have dark brown eyes, the odds of you having a blue eyed baby is rare. Though I've seen babies born with dark eyes, they tend to go from lighter to darker. Also, don't worry if the whites look bluish at first -- this is normal, and they'll get lighter. Basically, there's a million changes at birth -- hair changes, skin changes, and so does pigment. The eye color your baby winds up with is related much more to the eye color of you and your partner than the color your baby is born with... or the eye color you wish they'd have!

Dr. Vicki Papadeas | May 11 , 2009 2:57 PM

re: Q: Will Baby's Eyes Change?

Believe it or not, my little girl's eyes changed at age 2!!! From my color blue to a mix of my blue and my husband's green. She looks just like her Daddy and her eyes were all that looked like me, but her color now is just beautiful!

Andi1798 | December 28 , 2007 5:57 PM

re: Q: Will baby's eyes change?

Both my son's eyes and my daugher's eyes changed from a VERY bright blue to a green/hazel after they were a year old. It is so strange now to look at how different the eye color is.

JessicaSG | June 11 , 2009 3:06 PM

re: Q: Will baby's eyes change?

not sure having a blue eyed baby to brown eyed parents is all that rare - my son has them and so do his cousins.

spaz06 | June 13 , 2009 8:01 PM

re: Q: Will baby's eyes change?

I'm tend to find myself wondering about this also! I have brown eyes and my BD has very light bown/hazel/ pretty colored eyes! I wonder will my daughter have them also me and my BD are like night and day!!!

nee1stborn | June 16 , 2009 7:14 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

I had blue eyes til i was around 4 or 5 and then they changed to a green....my husbands eyes are brown and our girl ended up with green eyes....our doctor said they shouldnt change after a year....so we will see

Kr@nny | September 07 , 2009 4:43 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

Both of my parents have dark brown eyes. Both of my brothers also have brown eyes. I was born with bright blue eyes. My maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather both have blue eyes. They said I have a recessive gene.

hjhamilton35 | March 05 , 2010 11:30 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

my eye is brown also he daddy have brown eye..

tayshawna | June 21 , 2010 10:46 AM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

Blue eyes do come the recessive gene and brown eyes are dominate. so blue eyed people can not have a brown eyed child because if either paerent had a brown eyed gene they would have brown eyes... so brown eyed people can carry the blue eyed gene and would have a 50/50 chance of passing the blue eye gene to their child.

jewelgirl23 | September 05 , 2010 6:47 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

I want to know the same thing...somebody help me out...I'm African-American (brown skin) with medium brown eyes, all my family is AA with brown eyes on my father and mothers side. I conceived via donor (medium brown skin) who supposedly was AA/AA-Native Am. On the donor's father side his great grandfather was AA and his great grandmother was full cherooke. They produced the donors grandfather (half AA half NA) who married a AA women (the donors grandmother). They have the donors dad (who is then 1/4 NA), and he marries the donors mother who is full AA and her family is too. Needless to say, I was shocked when my son was born white looking with non-brown eyes. His eyes where black looking when born, but they you could see they were blue. They are like a dark blue, sometimes i see a flicker of another brown or green in them, but then they just look blue. My baby is 23 weeks now (just past 5 months). The donor list his family as having brown eyes..his father having light brown eyes, and one of his siblings as having a hazel eye. And yes, I even had a dna/paternity testing down because i was in shock, and thought I was given the wrong donor. I still cant help to think that the donor has some caucasian in that native american because it just doesnt make any sense..everyone is supposedly AA except that one greatgrandmother. As an AA woman, the blue eye is just throwing me... I would not think that was possible, if for no reason other than I'm AA with Brown eyes. Anybody want to give me any opinions? and I'm thinking of suing the sperm bank for misrepresentation. Black people dont have blue eyes.

natonya620 | October 01 , 2010 12:59 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

I beg to differ with that last statement,natonya620. Though rare,blacks can have blue eyes.I've seen it within my own family.There is currently a black baby with blue eyes that was signed to Paramount Pictures at 12 months old.Unfortunately,I could not attach a picture but I'm sure he would pop up if googled.

sinnaman15 | October 21 , 2010 3:07 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

natonya620. I've met several African Americans with blue eyes. And normally both sets of parents need to hold the recessive gene for blue eyes to produce a child with blue eyes. So there may just be a hidden gene within your own DNA as well. As easily as it was that the gentleman who donated didn't know, you don't know either. By the way, there are a surprise percentage of Native Americans with blue eyes (my grandmother is a Navajo and Hopi tribe historian, but I don't know the exact percentage). They started getting blue eyes around the 1600s when the settlers came over from Europe. Hope this helps. You have a wonderful life that you created and I'm sure you'll love those blue eyes no matter what!

gmblake | February 27 , 2011 12:45 AM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

My son is now 5 months old he was born with beuatiful blue-gray eyes , but my husbands eyes are brown and mine are green, hopefully if they change they are green like mine because from head to toes he look exactly like my husband and it would be nice to have at least that after all . Although our oldest daughter looks exactly like me ,but with brown eyes . I guess its only fair. LOL

rahashot | May 15 , 2011 2:01 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

My brother had dark brown eyes like our mom until he hit puberty, and now they are hazel like our dad's. Go figure? Mine are green.

Zee13 | July 19 , 2011 4:46 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

http://actingwhite.blogspot.com/2010/08/blacks-and-blue-eye-color.html AA with blue eyes.

myhcarranza | August 25 , 2011 10:08 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

Both me and my BD have light brown eyes, and from the day she was born our little one has had blue eyes. Both our grandparents had blue eyes so will they change? she is 9 months now. Alot of people tell me its 3rd generation. She just happen to get our grandparents eyes.

a1sosa | September 02 , 2011 12:13 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

munk7702 | October 14 , 2011 5:13 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

This is definitely very common with babies, A lot of them definitely change eye color a lot. Sometimes you want them to change and sometimes you do not. You never know what will happen. payday

jb4522jb | November 05 , 2011 10:31 AM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

I had blue eyes till I was 15, then they went green. My drivers permit they are bright blue, and then my actual lis. they are dark green. They have been green ever since. My mom says hers changed from blue to green in middle school. My daughter's eyes are the same blue that mine used to be. I wonder if/when they will turn green too. BTW, we do not have any blue eyed persons in my family. So I felt like an outsider growing up.

savannah_girl | November 17 , 2011 8:16 PM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

My mother is Irish and Cherokee (her grandmother was full Cherokee), my father is Scottish and Lakota (not sure how much, but it's less than mom). He is easily confused for Mexican with blue eyes, my mom is easily confused for white with brown eyes. My brother has brown eyes, 2 sisters have hazel eyes (both differing in amount of green) and i have blue. Crazy Horse (a native from South Dakota in the time of Custer) was said to have light brown hair with gray eyes, obviously he was full-blood. So, natonya620, your donor's native side could have easily taken over. People get too stereotypical with Native Americans. Just because you're Native, doesn't mean you're going to be dark with dark hair and dark eyes. An old legend my great-grandmother would tell us is that the people (Natives) believe the farther traveled from your country, the more white you become. Natives originated in Asia for those that didn't know. Read your history books.

lurvly4 | November 28 , 2011 7:43 AM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

yes it changes there are several theories, about that i have used an iphone app few months before my born. After birth her eyes aren't changed. This app predict very closely eye color, it uses mother, father and grand parents colors, you can find more infor here : http://mybabyface.info

elizaaa1 | December 12 , 2011 10:21 AM

Q&A: Will baby's eye color change?

My daughter's turned from a darker shade of blue to a green shade at around a year and a half.

forensicmama | February 23 , 2012 5:40 PM

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