Parents expecting a baby are usually interested in everything that concerns the appearance of the unborn child. The color of the eyes of a newborn is not an exception. Although babies are born, as a rule, they always have blue-gray or bluish-gray eyes, and their color changes over time.
Instructions
Step 1
Consider the fact that eye color is inherited. This postulate was put forward by Johann Mendel, an Austrian biologist and botanist who lived in the 19th century. According to his law, eye color is inherited in the same way as hair color: if the dark genes are dominant, then the distinctive features (phenotypes) encoded by them will take precedence over the distinctive features of the lighter color.
Step 2
Look at the color of your eyes and the color of the iris of your husband or wife. If you both have dark or brown eyes, the baby will most likely be born with dark eyes. Accordingly, children of parents with light eyes will also have light eye color.
Step 3
If you and your other half have a different eye color, then determine the color of your child's iris according to the theory of dominant genes. For example, mom has blue eyes, and dad has light green. Their child may have blue eyes with a probability of 60%, light green - 40%, since blue is the dominant color.
Brown is considered the most common eye color on earth, and green is the rarest eye color.
Step 4
Don't panic if your baby's eye color doesn't match your expectations or doesn't match your eye color when the baby is born. The vast majority of babies have blue-gray or bluish-gray eyes at birth. By about 6-7 months, it becomes finally clear what the eye color will become in the future. Those babies who have dark skin at birth usually have dark gray or brown eyes. Eye color is most often determined by parental genes, but even a great-grandfather or great-grandmother can unexpectedly contribute.
Step 5
Refer to online programs on the Internet that offer to help parents-to-be to determine the color of the child's eyes. To do this, indicate the color of your eyes and the eyes of your partner, as well as the color of the eyes of your parents and partner's parents, your siblings.
The calculator will calculate and give you the probability of your child's future eye color.
