Eye Color?

[Skywalker]

I'm getting aggravated by online calculators. I've gotten multiple different results. One said 75% brown eyes, the other said 50-50 brown and blue, etc.

I have brown eyes and my baby's father has blue eyes.
My mother has blue eyes and my father has hazel eyes.
My baby's father's parents both had blue eyes.
My father's parents both had blue eyes.
My mother's mother had blue eyes and my mother's father had brown eyes.
I have no idea of the eye color of any of the baby's father's grandparents.

Anyone have any idea what the likelihood of eye color will be?

 

[trit]

There really is no knowing especially with the genetic combo that y'all have going on. But since you seem to have the unmutated gene for brown and baby's dad has pure blue it could be either. With that said there is about a 50% chance for blue, and 50% for brown (however genes can and sometimes do mutate so a chance for hazel is always in there depending on which set of genetics you got from your dad)

 

[sun]

No way of really knowing because eye colour determination is actually more complex that they used to think. But it is more likely he will have brown eyes.

Both mine have brown eyes now. They both had blue eyes until around 12-14mo.

I have brown eyes.
My OH and his entire extended family all have blue eyes.
My family is 1/2 brown and 1/2 green eyes.

Still all ended up with gorgeous brown eyes!

 

[wish4baby]

In order for you to have 2 parents with colored eyes - but you have brown, which is very uncommon - there must be changing/ mutating genes involved.

But a basic Punnett square would show a 50/50 chance for your child to have brown or colored eyes

Bb, Bb, bb, bb

The final eye color won't usually show for about a year

 

[sun]

In order for you to have 2 parents with colored eyes - but you have brown, which is very uncommon - there must be changing/ mutating genes involved.

But a basic Punnett square would show a 50/50 chance for your child to have brown or colored eyes

Bb, Bb, bb, bb

The final eye color won't usually show for about a year

OOH I didn't notice neither of her parents have brown eyes!! Yes it's more like 50/50 for your LO!

 

[xdxxtx]

Brown eyes are dominant, so I'd go with the 75% chance of brown.

 

[Starry Night]

I can never figure the eye colour thing out either. My dad has brown eyes and my mom has blue yet all of my siblings and I have blue eyes. My brother married a girl with hazel eyes and all 3 of their kids have blue eyes (though the youngest is only 8 weeks so it could change).

My DH has brown eyes and, as I said, I have blue. Our son has blue eyes. My DH's brother has blue eyes so he must have a recessive blue eye gene. My BiL married a girl with blue eyes so all 3 of their kids have blue eyes.

I'm kind of hoping that our DD has brown eyes simply because ONE of the grand kids has to have brown eyes. I keep hearing brown is dominant but have yet to see it proven. lol Also, it's just cute when the girl looks like her daddy. DS looks like me. all of the nieces and nephews on either side are also blondies. The dark hair gene has been losing out so far other than tainting our hair. My siblings and I are not as fair as my mom (a true blonde) but we're not dark like my dad either. I was a blonde as a child but went brown in my teens and have stayed a light brown. Blonde highlights look very natural on me. My nieces and nephews are all fair to varying degrees. DS was born blonde and is now a very light brown with blonde highlights. (my dh is very dark)

And I have an aunt and uncle that both have brown eyes but 1 of their 4 kids has blue eyes. My grandma has blue eyes so I guess the recessive gene won out on that one! (I remember reading that if both parents have brown eyes but both carry the blue eye recessive gene their kids have a 1/4 chance of blue eyes).

 

[Nats21]

I've got blue eyes and OH has brown. Callum was born with lovely piercing blue eyes and then at around 5 months they changed to brown eyes like his dads and have stayed that colour since. I'm guessing the same will happen with this LO and she'll have brown eyes too xx

 

[Mum_Of_Roodys]

Genetically speaking baby should have brown eyes as brown eyes are the strongest gene , it goes
Brown blue hazel green

But that doesn't always work out , my son has dark brown eyes my daughter has a sort of strange brown/hazel mix and my eyes are green/grey I have really strange eyes , but anyway that seems to work out genetically yet it's the same with hair it's always darkest to lightest then after all ginger as Ginger is the weakest gene pool same as green eyes yet my hubby has black hair so strongest gene right ? And my hair is like a blonde slightly gingery type of colour but both of my children have mousey brown blonde ish hair , so scientifically the children should be the darkest hair and the darkest eyes but anything can happen , my friend and her hubby both have jet black hair and brown eyes and their little girl has white blonde hair and the biggest lightest blue eyes I've ever seen , I think it's just best to wait and see xx

 

[mamaduke]

Genetically speaking baby should have brown eyes as brown eyes are the strongest gene , it goes
Brown blue hazel green

But that doesn't always work out ... I think it's just best to wait and see xx

^^ This is what I was taught when I was younger, but I'm a huge fan of the wait and see method.

DH has brown eyes, and I have blue eyes with grey tendencies (my blue eyes change shades of blues and greys based on my mood when I wake up, which is a grey trait).

My mom has hazel eyes; my dad (and most of his family) has blue eyes.
DH's mom has brown eyes; his dad has hazel eyes.

I have grey-eyed genes on both sides.

DS1's eyes seem to follow mine - blue with grey tendencies.

 

[Sarah lo]

Genetics are so amazing once you have children and see it working on real life.

I have brown eyes, both my parents have brown eyes, both my mums parents had brown eyes and only one of my dad's parents had blue eyes, the other had brown.

DH has brown eyes, his mum has brown eyes and his dad has blue

So genetically speaking our kids are most likely to have brown eyes. Yet our daughter has clear blue eyes.

 

[jenmcn1]

It depends.
I have brown eyes, my husband has green eyes.
Our son has brown eyes like me, and our daughter was born with blue eyes but are clearly turning green now.

My mom has brown eyes. My dad has blue.
My husbands mom has green eyes. His dad has brown.

Genetics are a funny thing. There no way to determine eye or hair color. My son looks like me brown hair, brown eyes. My daughter is a ginger with green eyes. Go figure. We've realized genetics can also skip a few generations.

 

[Starry Night]

I agree with the skipping a generation. I had strawberry blonde hair as a child (blonde with red/ginger highlights) and my grandmother was so happy because her mom had had red hair and none of her family after her had red hair. None of my grandma's 6 kids nor the 8 cousins who came before me. I wasn't a true red, of course. And once I reached my teens the redish hues went away. There is still a little bit of a brassy quality to my hair but I'm decidedly brown and there is more blonde highlights than red.