Changing Eye Color

Most new parents can’t wait to figure out what color eyes their new baby will have. It’s just so frustrating that you usually won’t be able to know for sure for the better part of the first year.
Dark brown eyes are the only ones guaranteed not to change. The rule of thumb that most doctors and baby books will tell you is that by 6 months of age the pigment that colors the iris is completely deposited in most babies. My daughter was born, like many Caucasian babies, with blue eyes. They started out a dark navy blue and got a bit lighter and greyer as the months passed. By six months I was sure she was going to have blue-grey eyes but low and behold between 6 and 12 months her eyes changed again and now, at 19 months they are hazel. Now, at 5 ½ months my son’s eyes are green, go figure… My husband and I both have brown eyes but it’s so tricky with eye color. The laws of eye color genetics don’t seem work the same way they do with other things like facial features and hair color. Its just a big guessing game and after a while the importance of figuring out our baby’s future eye color gets overshadowed by more important things like them learning to crawl and walk and all of a sudden they are into absolutely everything!