I heard this myth on the playground as a child, and believed it. Then I grew up and thought, nahhhh, not possible given the heterogeneity of races in our world.
AND THEN… I get a weekly update from a British Government supported website (Emma’s diary) reading the following:
“Your baby’s eyes will now have blue irises and will be fully formed. The colour of the irises will remain a pigment-free blue until a few months after birth when they will then take on their final colour.”
Now, I’ve seen a lot of new-born babies, and most of them DIDN’T have blue eyes.
Re: Is every baby born with blue eyes?
i think it depends on the genetics how long time they stay blue, what I have heard is that its just for the first couple of hours/day. I know someone and his eyes were bluish until 2-3 months and then turned brown (but he had one set of colored genes). I also know someone who had blue eyes, turned green and then darker green and now hazel (into adulthood).
Re: Is every baby born with blue eyes?
It’s not really blue eyes. They’re really a muddy/hazy grey color, that in some lights can look blue. But it’s nothing like the adult blue color. The eyes will darken/change in color depending on the baby’s genetics within a month or so.
Re: Is every baby born with blue eyes?
Eye colour doesn’t come in until later as others have said- its like a navy blue’ish but my kiddo was born with lovely chocolatey brown eyes mashAllah and they’ve stayed that way. A cousins daughter was born at 24 weeks and her eyes are still green as they were at birth. I suspect it’s because her eye color never had a chance to develop since she was born so early but I could be totally wrong.
Is every baby born with blue eyes?
Caucasian babies are usually born with navy blue eyes and they change over the course of the first year. By their first birthday they’ve usually taken a permanent color.
Asian and African American babies are usually born with extremely dark eyes that look black and actually become dark brown over the course of the first two months.
Eye color is determined by a number of genes and not just one pair of alleles so parents with dark eyes often have kids with light eyes as long as light eyes run in the family.
Re: Is every baby born with blue eyes?
The switch depends on the amount of melanin in the baby’s body and how quickly and how much it deposits.
Most babies are born with a blue/grey iris and their eyes appear lighter at birth, but how quickly that changes like I said depends on their
body’s melanin levels. Every baby is different in how dark their eye colour gets. Some babies eyes change rapidly while others takes a few months.