Eye color | Imamother

amother

OP ↓

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 11:56 am

I have blue eyes and my dh has green. My first few kids either have blue or green eyes. My almost 2 year olds eyes seem to be more of a light brown. Is that even genetically possible?

amother

Geranium

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 12:00 pm

amother Chestnut wrote:

Of course it means you both have brown in your genes.

Officially nope not possible ... It may turn out more hazel which makes sense

theoneandonly

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 12:20 pm

According to what you learn in HS it's not possible, but I think genetics are actually more complicated than what you learn in HS....

amother

↑ OP

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 12:30 pm

amother Geranium wrote:

Officially nope not possible ... It may turn out more hazel which makes sense

It could be that his eyes are really hazel. I think he has large pupels that could be disording he color.

amother

Fern

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 12:31 pm

In HS they tell you that it is impossible. In real life I've seen it many times. In the oppisite direction too. My SIL has brown eyes, both her parents and all four grandparents have brown eyes. Based on what we were told in HS all her children have to have brown eyes. Her husband has blue eyes and all eight of her children have blue eyes.

amother

Mint

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 12:40 pm

Do either of your parents, in-laws or grandparents have brown eyes?
If yes there is a very big chance.

My mothers eyes are green, her mother had blue eyes. Some of us have green or hazel and some have brown. Even those with brown eyes who married people with brown eyes have kids with blue or green eyes.
If the genetics are strong they survive generations apparently.

amother

Chicory

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 12:43 pm

I always thought that green eyes can have brown eyes and only blue can't.

amother

↑ Chestnut

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 12:43 pm

You can search the info, it’s rare but 100% possible. Don’t know why they teach it wrong in high school. Pretty sure I did learn that it’s rare and possible.

amother

Mintcream

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 12:43 pm

amother Fern wrote:

this actually makes sense blue is recessive so just because she has brown eyes and everyone had brown eyes before her doesn’t mean they don’t have a recessive blue gene. together with her husband‘s blue eyes makes sense that her kids could have blue

amother

Seafoam

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 12:49 pm

Oh no! If he has brown eyes they probably switched the baby in the hospital!!
Just kidding.

Eyes are not a simple punnet square and there are many factors that play into eye color. See the linked article
https://medlineplus.gov/geneti.....olor.

amother

Yellow

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 1:05 pm

Apparently it is!!! My husband and I both have blue and almost all of my children are brown eyed!!

Chayalle

Sun, Nov 10 2024, 1:10 pm

My niece has green eyes and her husband has blue eyes. Her son has brown eyes. We joke about where she picked him up, but she says he's definitely hers!
He looks exactly like her father, actually, down to the brown eyes.....

Amother yellow if you are both blue-eyed, that's even more unusual that you have brown-eyed kids....