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How eye color changes with age in newborns
I once dropped by a friend's place to congratulate her on the newborn -
And gazed for a long time into the gray little eyes of the one-month-old wonder.
‒ If only my eye color would stay, if only mine! ‒
the newly minted mommy kept repeating.
Dad chuckled - the baby was a copy of mom...
Six months later, hazel little eyes were already smiling at me.
Dad was very pleased with the change:
‒ At least something has to be from me!
Why does this happen: a baby is born with one eye color, and after some time looks at the world with eyes of a completely different color? Is this normal, and why does eye color change in newborns?
Yes. This is an absolutely normal phenomenon, often predictable from the first days of a baby's life. The phenomenon of eye color change directly depends on the content of the pigment melanin and on the density of the fibers of the iris.
Inheritance of eye color
The main eye colors include blue, gray, green, amber, hazel, and brown. The highest melanin content is observed in the iris of brown eyes, the lowest - in blue ones. This amount of melanin, which determines eye color, is genetically determined.
The scheme of eye color inheritance is very complex, but there is a table that will help predict with a high degree of probability the eye color of a future child, based on the eye color of the parents.
I once dropped by a friend's place to congratulate her on the newborn -
And gazed for a long time into the gray little eyes of the one-month-old wonder.
‒ If only my eye color would stay, if only mine! ‒
the newly minted mommy kept repeating.
Dad chuckled - the baby was a copy of mom...
Six months later, hazel little eyes were already smiling at me.
Dad was very pleased with the change:
‒ At least something has to be from me!
Why does this happen: a baby is born with one eye color, and after some time looks at the world with eyes of a completely different color? Is this normal, and why does eye color change in newborns?
Yes. This is an absolutely normal phenomenon, often predictable from the first days of a baby's life. The phenomenon of eye color change directly depends on the content of the pigment melanin and on the density of the fibers of the iris.
Inheritance of eye color
The main eye colors include blue, gray, green, amber, hazel, and brown. The highest melanin content is observed in the iris of brown eyes, the lowest - in blue ones. This amount of melanin, which determines eye color, is genetically determined.
The scheme of eye color inheritance is very complex, but there is a table that will help predict with a high degree of probability the eye color of a future child, based on the eye color of the parents.
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