Eye Color

kimberly_ann81

Since the preferred genetic traits post I've been wondering if DH and I could possibly get a green eyed baby.  Sweet Pea has brown and Peanut has blue.  I found this chart and thought it would be fun to share.

mommymeg143

This is great!! I love anything that has to do with genetics. Thank you for sharing!!

ETA: I was looking and the brown + blue combo may be wrong because my mom has brown eyes, my dad has blue and I have green.

Jan1214

Thanks for posting this! My husband and I were just talking about this the other night.

FishyMom

I did not realize that brown brown could have a possibility of a different color. Interesting!

mamatohne

My doctor told me that all babies are born. With blue eyes, and they change as they baby gets older. Ds has blue eyes and they stayed blue. Anyone's Lo born with a different color (other than blue) eye????

abbyful

MeganMullikin said:

This is great!! I love anything that has to do with genetics. Thank you for sharing!! ETA: I was looking and the brown + blue combo may be wrong because my mom has brown eyes, my dad has blue and I have green.

Maybe try this calculator, it factors in more relatives: https://genetics.thetech.org/online-exhibits/what-color-eyes-will-your-children-have

Maelara

I'm blue, DH is blue and DD is blue I bet this one will be too!

tabatharose83

tarynleann said:

My doctor told me that all babies are born. With blue eyes, and they change as they baby gets older. Ds has blue eyes and they stayed blue. Anyone's Lo born with a different color (other than blue) eye????

I have extremely dark brown eyes, some call them black. But my mother tells me that when I was born they were lavender. She said the doctors made a big deal about it because it was so unusual. I'm assuming it was just because my eyes were meant to be so dark that it kind of mixed with the blue. Who knows! My mom might be exaggerating!

kimberly_ann81

I swear Sweet Pea was born with brown eye but they were really dark blue and didn't take long to turn dark brown.  I love his eyes; like chocolate.

tabatharose83

Fun fact: Blue eyes are caused by a gene mutation. So therefore, Hitler's perfect blue-eyed and blonde race were actually people who were flawed. 

kimberly_ann81

MeganMullikin said:

This is great!! I love anything that has to do with genetics. Thank you for sharing!! ETA: I was looking and the brown + blue combo may be wrong because my mom has brown eyes, my dad has blue and I have green.

I thought so too.  I'm wondering if the darkness of the brown eyes effect the outcome.  DH are more Hazel; light brown with some greenish areas.

kimberly_ann81

tabatharose83 said:

Fun fact: Blue eyes are caused by a gene mutation. So therefore, Hitler's perfect blue-eyed and blonde race were actually people who were flawed. 

I've heard the same thing about red heads

Maelara

kimberly_ann81 said:

tabatharose83 said:

Fun fact: Blue eyes are caused by a gene mutation. So therefore, Hitler's perfect blue-eyed and blonde race were actually people who were flawed. 

I've heard the same thing about red heads

Actually, it's blondes they are the mutation. My daughter is one big mutation! Lol!

KMW08

We have a fair shot of anything

Mine are hazel but more green.
My mom is green, dad is blue. My maternal gparents are blue. Unk paternal gparents.

DHs are brown.
His mom is blue, dad is brown. Maternal gparents blue. Paternal gma brown gpa blue.

We have it all going on!

ssstephanie214

FI & I both have brown-green with a gray ring around the edge it's so weird, we have like the exact same eyes. pretty sure we're not related. hoping our baby gets the same eyes cause they're COOL 

thanks for posting, i also love these kinda charts 

ambam25

I love this kind of stuff. My mom and dad have brown eyes they have a browned eyed child, blue eyed and a green eyed. My mom is also a biology teacher and I was showing her this and she said there is research saying the blue eye gene is a mutation that turns genes on and off and there is a chance that two blue eyed parents could have a brown eyed baby.

sparklingwhit

Ummm...I don't believe this is right from my understanding of genetic traits coming in pairs. I'm not necessarily a biology genius, but I believe this is a bit off. I hate to be a bummer but there is only a 25% chance that a brown eyed person and blue or green eyed person would have a child with the recessive trait. I'm not sure on the others, but I'm sure they're wrong too. I would draw a picture of how the charts work from what I remember but I'm in bed

tigerpawie

It's impossible for me to get a close guess with eye color. Lol! I have blue and brown mix in one eye and the other eye mixed blue brown and green. So from afar, it looks like I have blue eye and brown eye. DS has gray eyes and DD has hazel eyes with one small stripe of blue in one eye. Perhaps LO will have blue eyes more than brown because FI has blue eyes and I have some blue. We'll see what happens.

SummerB0607

My mom has hazel eyes and my dad has gray. Mine switch from blue to green depending on my mood. My SO's eyes are brown.

My brother and his wife both have brown eyes and their oldest son's is blue

TC0514

abbyful said:

MeganMullikin said:

This is great!! I love anything that has to do with genetics. Thank you for sharing!!

ETA: I was looking and the brown + blue combo may be wrong because my mom has brown eyes, my dad has blue and I have green.

Maybe try this calculator, it factors in more relatives: https://genetics.thetech.org/online-exhibits/what-color-eyes-will-your-children-have
I can't seem to get the calculator to work?

meeshybee

tarynleann said:

My doctor told me that all babies are born. With blue eyes, and they change as they baby gets older. Ds has blue eyes and they stayed blue. Anyone's Lo born with a different color (other than blue) eye????

My youngest sister had very very dark eyes when she was born. You couldn't really tell any color, just dark. She has hazel eyes now.

SweetMelissa5

abbyful said:

MeganMullikin said:

This is great!! I love anything that has to do with genetics. Thank you for sharing!! ETA: I was looking and the brown + blue combo may be wrong because my mom has brown eyes, my dad has blue and I have green.

Maybe try this calculator, it factors in more relatives: https://genetics.thetech.org/online-exhibits/what-color-eyes-will-your-children-have

I was going to post this as well; I love this calculator! Apparently I have an 8% chance of having a child with blue eyes, and yet two of my three children have blue eyes; genetics can be really fascinating.

mander82

This is so cool,  thanks for sharing !

I think its so odd that blue and blue equals 99% blue,  but brown and brown,  and green and green,  don't have that high of a percentage.  

DH and I both have blue eyes  

VanillaTwilight13

My mom's are hazel and my dad's are blue. I have gray. DS has gray with some green flecks in it. DH's are brown... so yeah, not sure how to guess about the LO, lol. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

sparklingwhit

lissydee said:

@sparklingwhit‌ eye color is influenced by more than one gene, so a simple pennant square isn't going to give you the right odds.

That's fine. Like I said I am def no biology genius. I would say this chart is wrong as well though. It seems that they basically are stating it is 50/50 in most scenarios and doesn't seem to be taking into account recessive traits at all. No matter what it is less likely to have a blue or green eyed baby if one person has brown eyes. Brown eyes are still dominant. It's not just a flip of the coin. My numbers may be off, but I think this is way off.

sparklingwhit

And I'm only looking at the brown/blue combo there.

Ineedmorecoffee

Thanks for sharing! It would be really cool if this baby had hazel/green/blue eyes. My entire family and I have bright blue eyes, and my DH has brown, but his dad has green eyes and his grandpa has light blue eyes. So there is a chance!

moroccojade

I am laughing at the quiz in the link....

My mom's eyes are green... my dad's eyes are blue.  Mine are brown.  (Except when I cry, then they look a bit hazel.)  It is telling me I AM NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE BROWN EYES!  lol.  Well, I do.  And my dad's are definitely blue....  and mom's are very hazel-y green.

Someone asked about babies having blue eyes... My daughter did not.  Hers were so dark they looked like sparkly black diamonds.  Then they mellowed out into a nice chocolate brown after a few weeks (or months... I don't remember). 

abbyful

I have blue eyes, DH has green, DS has blue.

I'm glad DS got *something* from me, everything else he looks just like DH!

meeshybee

TC0514 said:

MeganMullikin said:

This is great!! I love anything that has to do with genetics. Thank you for sharing!! ETA: I was looking and the brown + blue combo may be wrong because my mom has brown eyes, my dad has blue and I have green.

Maybe try this calculator, it factors in more relatives: https://genetics.thetech.org/online-exhibits/what-color-eyes-will-your-children-have

I can't seem to get the calculator to work?

@TC0514 I think it only works when you put in eye color for both sets of parents as well as you and your mate. It won't work for me because Dh is adopted and I have no idea what his bio-parents eye colors are.