Anonymous wrote:Multiple genetics degrees here. Many people on this thread are discussing eye color as if it is a single gene trait like sickle cell or cystic fibrosis. It's much much much more complicated. Eye color is determined by many genes as well as probably some environmental factors. Obviously eye color of the parents plays into it and yes there is truth to the fact that brown is typically more dominant over blue, but as somebody said this is not like Gregor Mendel with the pea plants and punnet squares you all remember from high school.
Anonymous wrote:My mom was so excited when preg with me. My older sister was a toe head so so blonde white. And it stayed that color. So she thought I was going to be. Nope as she puts it out came a dark hair thing!!! And tells the nurses they made a mistake! (I'm in my 30s)
Now a friend of mine has dark brown/black eyes and she married a man with jet black hair and very dark eyes. Both her kids blonde and blue eyes!
Anonymous wrote:OP-- how old is your baby??? Newborn hair a lot of times falls out and replaced with something else entirely.
My sister's blondest kid was born with jet black hair like her---which then fell out and was replaced with blonde in 2 months time.
My oldest went through darkish newborn hair..and then just the bottom very dark, to a reddish tint and finally around 2-3 months the very blonde color that he still has today at 7 years old.
My youngest had very blonde hair at birth and now is dirty blonde at 4.5. I am dark brunette--that was dark blonde my first 3-4 years of life. I am married to a blonde.
Anonymous wrote:My husband and I have straight hair (very) his mother has curly, but DD has super curly kinky hair.
Anonymous wrote:My mom was so excited when preg with me. My older sister was a toe head so so blonde white. And it stayed that color. So she thought I was going to be. Nope as she puts it out came a dark hair thing!!! And tells the nurses they made a mistake! (I'm in my 30s)
Now a friend of mine has dark brown/black eyes and she married a man with jet black hair and very dark eyes. Both her kids blonde and blue eyes!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DH and I both have blue eyes (as do all our siblings, parents, grandparents, etc). If our kids didn't have blue eyes he would have been suspicious.
DH and I both have blue eyes... and DD has green eyes but DS has blue eyes. Green eyes are a recessive trait, relative to blue. So both DH and I must have had a green gene somewhere.
Anonymous wrote:DH and I both have blue eyes (as do all our siblings, parents, grandparents, etc). If our kids didn't have blue eyes he would have been suspicious.