Changing Eye Colour?
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Topic: Changing Eye Colour?
Posted By: emmaohara
Subject: Changing Eye Colour?
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 6:40pm
When did your guys babies change eye colour? My 5 mth old was born with blues (like his dad) but they have been turning gradually a strange sludge colour (very attractive poor little man!!) I have a feeling they are trying to turn hazel like mine but I thought if they were to change they would have done it by now?
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 6:45pm
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I think I read that they can change anywhere between 3 to 6 months. I'm hoping Maddie will keep her blue eyes like her dad's but with me having brown eyes I'm not sure that will happen. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 6:53pm
| all my girls have blue eyes. kayla's are still blue, darker than my oldest whos used to be a real bright blue. hubby has green and i have blue/green. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 8:05pm
| I have brown and hubby has green/blue but i also carry the blue gene, Ella was born with lovely blue eyes but they have started changing to the greeny/blue her daddy has even has the same yellow centre. |
Posted By: Anna
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 8:07pm
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I have blue eyes and Quinn was born with my eyes. He is now over two and they are slowly changing colour to his dads green (much to the mother-in-laws delight!!) ------------- Anna http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 8:43pm
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Maya was born with blue eyes, they changed in the first few weeks, and the twins also have blue eyes, but the milky dark blue that newborns often have before they change color. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 10:43pm
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I was told by my Plunket nurse than eyes can keep changing for up to 2 years. In Han's case, that definitely was true.
She originally had dark blue eyes, which changed to the lovely sludgy colour, and have now emerged hazel/green... the same as my eyes  (Atleast she has something from me!!)
So my theory is (with no genetic knowledge whatsoever) that green/hazel eyes take quite a bit longer to change than blue or brown. |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 10:46pm
Ashlee's have only changed to a lighter blue - hubby has blue eyes, I have hazel, my dad had really piercing almost ice blue eyes so I'm hoping Ashlee's stay blue, but it doesn't really matter, I guess! 
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Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 5:45am
Charlottes were blue when she was born- then went to navy when she was a few weeks old. They were the sludgy colour you talked about until she was about 9 months when they went brown  ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 7:26am
| Jake had and has almost black eyes, and Taines are a slightly lighter brown. no change....how boring! |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 8:42am
james were a dark blue at brith and now are light bule with a brown ring in the middle much to my mums delight she allways whated a child with bule eyes ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Carmel
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 9:22am
| Both Hubby and me have hazel eyes but pipers are still a really blue |
Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 9:41am
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Alyssa had beautiful blue eyes until she was a year old. Then they went a grey colour and now i would call them green but that depends on what she is wearing. (still an awesome colour)
Jayde had blue eyes until she was about 7 months but they were a darker blue than lissys so i knew they would change. Now they are brownie hazel in the middle and blue on the very outer rim. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 10:01am
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Ella's are still newborn-dark-blue but have already started to lighten in the centre. But how's this for random.... MY eyes changed colour after having her!! They're still green, but the middle has gone from grey to the same hazel middle my hubby's eyes have. Bizzare ------------- Andie |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 11:28am
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all babies are born with blue eyes...
i think they do keep changing for a while... and i would imagine environment would play a part too - cause for a while they stay indoors lots more and sleep and then the more they open their eyes and the more light they are exposed to they change. well thats my theory anyway. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 9:01pm
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Both my girls were born with bright blue eyes, Briona's have stayed that way (like her dad's) but Hannah's have been changing over the last year to slightly blue-green (mine are green). I actually didn't notice hers change, it was that gradual, until I saw hers next to Briona's.
But eye colour can change anytime I think. My eyes were blue until I was about 13, then they changed to green... definitely green. (My mum has blue and Dad has brown.) ------------- |
Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 4:43pm
I feel for you - Charlotte is 6 months and her eyes are also a sludge colour which I have to agree is not very attractive. However, there is a bit of hazel colour in the centre that has started showing over the past two weeks. She was born with really blue eyes - I am gutted they are changing!
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 8:36pm
But hazel is sooo pretty!!! (Totally biased of course  )
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 14 January 2008 at 11:21pm
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*bump for ladyluck* ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 15 January 2008 at 2:34pm
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Keziah's eyes were really dark when she was born, but now they are dark blue with a darker ring around the outside... very pretty -------------  
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 15 January 2008 at 4:01pm
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Elle's are still changing but are currently a funny combo of hazel and green. Everyone comments on how pretty they are but I'm sure they will change more...would be nice if they stay as they are as they are very unique. Mine are green / grey but change...if I'm coming down with something, they go light blue, if the sky is blue, they are bluish, if I'm wearing green they are green. DH's eyes are dark DARK brown. Very dark. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Candkids
Date Posted: 15 January 2008 at 7:02pm
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sarahs stayed blue , jetts have gone from blue to the sludge colour one still looks blue tho, i have blue/green and dh has hazel, sarah has blue ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |