babys eye color..

jellybean210 · November 2009

i was jsut wondering...if i have hazel eyes, and baby daddy has hazel eyes, then will baby have hazel too? ive heard a few different things and was wondering what some of you think/know from expierience. tia!

ScissorTailedFlycatcher · November 2009

It's a possibility, but that's what happens with any recessive gene. My SS has the bluest eyes and DH and his mom have the darkest brown eyes I've ever seen. You'll just have to wait and see! (And let's face it, you'll have to wait until about 9 months or so until the eyes stay their permanent color).

Mrslove78 · November 2009

Well, I have brown eyes, DH has green, and DS (now 7 months 1 week old) has blue eyes. (FIL and SIL have blue eyes) so, there is no way to know.

fnkeefresh · November 2009

My mom was the only person in her family with Blue eyes, and my whole family except one of my brothers has blue eyes....so out of 5 kids one had brown...both parents have blue eyes.

JessikaLyn · November 2009

It depends. Your baby got 23 chromosomes from you and 23 from their dad. You won't know which ones until they're born though because you can only really guess probabilities. Time to bust out the punnett suares!

ValentineNJ · November 2009

I have green eyes and my sister has blue eyes. Parents have hazel and brown eyes. Eye color can be recessive - one grandmother had green eyes and one had blue which is where we probably got our eye color from, but you never know. The only combination that isn't possible is if both parents have light eyes then the child cannot have dark eyes (then you know there was a mailman involved :-).

greycoral · November 2009

There are also more than 2 factors that make up the gene for eye color. i vaguely remember that from biology class.

grapeape73 · November 2009

I have blue eyes, and the only other person in my faily with blue was my grandfather.

Both my DS and DD have bright blue eyes.

TXSweetheart · November 2009

fnkeefresh:
My mom was the only person in her family with Blue eyes, and my whole family except one of my brothers has blue eyes....so out of 5 kids one had brown...both parents have blue eyes.

That's very cool that your parents had a brown eyed child...that's very very uncommon, though not impossible as previously thought I wonder if your brother had anyone try to convince him he was adopted since up until about 10 years ago just about all kids learned in biology that two blue eyed parents can't have a brown eyed child.

tetani · November 2009

My DH and I both have hazel eyes, his are more of a green with brown flecks and mine are more 'yellow' with green and brown flecks. Our first son was born with blue eyes that are now grey/green. Depending on what he's wearing his eyes can appear more green or grey.

Genetic back story, my mother has brown-father green, his mom has brown-father blue.

We're assuming our next son (c/s 12/16) will have hazel or some other mixed eye colour.

Jibbelle · November 2009

I am a scientist and took tons of human genetic courses and there really isnt a good way to predict eye color, as it isnt a simple dominant/recessive relationship (like Mendel's pea plants we all learned about in high school and college). There are multiple genes that affect eye color. I do know that even though you both have hazel eyes, if either you or your DH has siblings with blue eyes your chance of having a child with blue eyes will increase.

Chaneltara · November 2009

Both of my parents had hazel eyes, and all of my siblings and I have various shades of blue...

getnmarried910 · November 2009

It's possible, but not necessarily true. DH and I both have green eyes and DD has blue eyes (from both of our moms) and DS has brownish green eyes. I'm still trying to figure out where the brown comes from.

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