DD1 has brown eyes and I think I could tell pretty early that they would be dark (mime are brown, DHs are blue). DD2 is 4 weeks and I'm thinking blue but I have no idea if its too early to tell! When could you tell your kiddos eye color?
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My son’s eyes changed from baby blue to hazel at 6-7 months. My daughter’s are still bright blue at 16 months with no indication of changing, I’m curious to see if anyone else’s kid changed in toddler years. Husband and I are green and hazel and we had a 75% chance of offspring following us and 25% chance of blue eyed offspring.
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I think we decided they were most likely staying blue when he was 5-6 months old. My husband has light blue eyes, my dad's family has bright blue, my mom's family has deep blue eyes... So it was bound to happen. (Even though my mom has grey/Hazel eyes, and I have Hazel eyes; everyone else is blue)
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It gets easier with each kiddo, IMO. DD1 was born with very dark "blue" eyes, and at about 6m they started changing (now a lovely dark brown at 5yo). DD2 had very light, clear "blue" eyes that never changed; they're still bright blue at 2yo.
DD3 was born 3 days ago and her eyes and overall coloring are quite dark. I'm predicting she'll also have dark brown eyes like DD1, and her hair will be the darkest brown out of the three (the other two have my Irish red hair).
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I had read that if they are light blue they are likely to stay that way, if they are dark blue, they are likely to change. That was true for us- my older had light blue eyes that never changed (just like her dad), the younger had darker blue which changed to a kind of hazel color (I still don’t know exactly what to call it and she’s 4). Dad has blue eyes and i have brown.
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DD had very dark blue eyes until six months then light blue/gray eyes until a year, then we thought they were turning hazel like mine, but they settled on an amber brown, with just a touch of green. Every one was confused about the blue for so long since not many people in our family have blue eyes, but every one was equally confused at how late they changed.
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I still can't tell what color my almost 4 yo's eyes will be. She's had really blue eyes for most of her life but over the last year they have turned a green/grey/blue color.
I'm fairly certain my 6 month old will have blue eyes because hers are so light and she's fair with blond hair.
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Following! DD is 11 weeks (6 weeks adjusted) and we *think* she’s going to have blue eyes since I have blue and DH has blue/green depending on the light, but I’m curious when others knew for sure. Right now her eyes are dark around the outside and light in the middle, so who knows!
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@skinnycow: same. DS2 had blue eyes at birth, but only recently (he’s 4.5) they have shifted to hazel.
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LO's eyes were very dark grey at birth, almost black. By 4 months i was pretty sure they would be brown and by 6 months they were definitely a deep dark brown.
Both DH and I have brown eyes but DHs are much darker and LO has the same as him.
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The later changes are really interesting to me!
We basically knew all 3 would have blue eyes of some sort since we both do. They do have different shades though, #1 is kind of classic bright blue, #2 is more of a lighter blue grey and #3 is pretty dark blue. I think you could see evidence of these differences pretty early on, a few months maybe? All were born with more steel grey/blue and got brighter.
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Typically by 9 months is when most eyes have accumulated the melanin needed to change the color from blue. If you don't have a lot of blue eyed family it might be earlier. E still has her bright blue eyes at 2 and we think they will stick. My husband also has blue eyes and so did my father and grandfather so I have the genes for blue eyes.
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