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Old 01-31-2010, 06:46 PM
 
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My son is about 2 months old. His eye color is a dark blue/gray color. Maybe midnight blue. Sometimes his eyes look lighter or darker depending on the light. I have brown/green eyes and come from a family with brothers who all have blue eyes. My wife has greenish blue eyes and everyone in her family has the same eye color. Please tell me if your child was born with dark gray/dark blue eyes and what color did their eyes finally turn to. Thank you.
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Old 01-31-2010, 06:52 PM
 
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In my family there are blue eyes and hazel eyes. In my husband's family, everyone has blue or green eyes. Our daughter had blue /gray eyes. She is 21 now with green eyes...and they are beautiful.
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Old 01-31-2010, 06:54 PM
 
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My children's eyes were brown when they were born, and they stayed brown. My husband has blue eyes. I have green eyes. Go figure.

Meanwhile, my sister and her husband both have brown eyes, but their children ended up with blue eyes at birth and beyond.
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Old 01-31-2010, 07:17 PM
 
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I have brown eyes and my husband has blue. We have two sons with blue eyes (born and stayed) and one daughter with brown eyes. Our daughter was born with blue eyes and they slowly changed over her first six months. Now they are beautiful dark brown. Go figure.
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Old 01-31-2010, 07:23 PM
 
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According to my spouse, if both brown-eyed parents have recessive blue-eyed genes and the child gets the recessive gene from both, the child will be blue-eyed. Also according to the spouse, two blue-eyed parents cannot have a brown-eyed child (not sure about blue eyed and green eyed parents).

My parents were both brown-eyed. I have blue eyes, my sister has brown eyes. I married a blue-eyed man, and both our children have blue eyes. My sister married a blue-eyed man, and one of their children has blue eyes and one has brown. Her brown-eyed daughter might have a blue-eyed child, if she carries a recessive blue-eyed gene and if she marries a man who is either blue-eyed or who also carries a recessive blue-eyed gene.
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Old 01-31-2010, 07:26 PM
 
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Blue eyes for all four of us. Three of the grandparents have blue eyes, and one has green.
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Old 01-31-2010, 07:34 PM
 
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Blue eyes for all four of us too....I don't know of anyone in my family who doesn't have blue eyes...Not sure about DH's family....Seems to me some of his siblings have brown eyes....
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Old 01-31-2010, 07:39 PM
 
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According to my spouse, if both brown-eyed parents have recessive blue-eyed genes and the child gets the recessive gene from both, the child will be blue-eyed. Also according to the spouse, two blue-eyed parents cannot have a brown-eyed child (not sure about blue eyed and green eyed parents).

My parents were both brown-eyed. I have blue eyes, my sister has brown eyes. I married a blue-eyed man, and both our children have blue eyes. My sister married a blue-eyed man, and one of their children has blue eyes and one has brown. Her brown-eyed daughter might have a blue-eyed child, if she carries a recessive blue-eyed gene and if she marries a man who is either blue-eyed or who also carries a recessive blue-eyed gene.
That's what I had always heard. As a matter of fact, it was a clue in a book I read long ago whereby someone figured out that the brown-eyed child of a blue-eyed mother could not possibly have been fathered by the blue-eyed man she claimed was the father.

However, I since read somewhere else that this isn't necessarily true. I'm not sure how green eyes fit in--green eyes are a mutant gene, I believe.

Anyway, I Googled and found this explanation. It's unusual, but not impossible.

can blue eyed parents have a brown eyed child? - JustAnswer
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Old 01-31-2010, 08:04 PM
 
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Mine are blue. DH's are hazel. Both sons have blue. They were born really dark blue and lightened up for several months to the color they are now.
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Old 01-31-2010, 08:15 PM
 
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I have green eyes and DH has blue. All 4 of our kids have his blue eyes and his lazy eye! I don't think the lazy eye has anything to do with the color but I just thought it was funny in an odd sort of way.
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