The most interesting thing for future parents is to think that a girl or a boy will be born whose nose is on the baby and what kind of eyes he will have - blue like mom’s, brown like grandfather’s, or maybe green like great-grandmother’s? With sex, it’s somehow simpler, on an ultrasound, if mom wants, with a high degree of probability they will say who will be born, but what about the color of the eyes? After all, I’m so anxious to quickly imagine how the baby will be born! With appearance, everything is not so simple, but the "mirror of the soul" ... We can assume the color of the eyes of the child. A table for determining the shade of the iris exists and will help in this.
Newborn eyes
What will be the color of the eyes of the crumbs, it is laid in the first trimester of pregnancy, more precisely towards its end, at the eleventh week. But almost all babies without exception are born with blue-gray-violet eyes, only occasionally there are dark-skinned newborns. This does not mean that the color will not change. By about a year, sometimes even by three or five, the eyes become what their nature intended, or, if you like, which genes prevail in the baby. The color of the eyes of the child changes just in time for this period of life, starting from 6-9 months. Only with brown-eyed, it will become permanent in the first months. It happens that a baby is born with eyes of different colors. This phenomenon occurs in about one percent of a hundred cases and is called heterochromia.
Melanin, which is responsible for the color of the eye and released when light enters, is simply not produced in the mother’s tummy. This explains why all newborns have the same irises . So, do not torture yourself, trying to discern the color of the eyes of your beloved crumbs. Be patient, you will soon see what kind of baby he is.
Eye color in a child and genetics
Many people remember how, in biology classes, they said that brown eye color dominates the rest. This, of course, is true, but even if the eyes of both mothers and fathers are so, there still remains a small chance to give birth to a green-eyed child or with a blue iris. So in the direction of jealousy, turn on the brain and begin to understand why, what and why. It is no secret that some couples break up just because a brown-eyed child is born to brown-eyed parents.
Of course, based on science, you can understand genetics. After all, it is she who gives the answer to the question of what kind of eye color the child will have. There is a Mendel law, according to which the eyes, like hair, are inherited according to the principle of the predominance of genes responsible for dark color. Gregor Mendel, a monk scientist, discovered this law of inheritance more than a hundred years ago. For example, dark parents and children, with a high degree of probability, will be the same, while light parents - vice versa. A child born from people with different phenotypes can be average in color of hair and eyes - between the one and the other. Naturally, there are exceptions, but this is rare.
Eye color determination
Everything described above can be presented in table form. On it, everyone is supposed to determine the color of the baby's eyes.
How to determine the color of the eyes of the unborn child. Table| eye color of parents | baby eye color |
| hazel | green | blue (gray) | hazel | green | blue (gray) |
| ++ | | | 75% | 18.75% | 6.25% |
| + | + | | fifty% | 37.5% | 12.5% |
| + | | + | fifty% | 0% | fifty% |
| ++ | | near 0% | 75% | 25% |
| + | + | 0% | fifty% | fifty% |
| | ++ | 0% | 1% | 99% |
It’s easy to understand what the color of the child’s eyes will be. Table, according to which this can be done, confirms Mendel’s law, but all the same exceptions to the rules remain in the form of a small percentage. No one knows how nature will control it.
Incidentally, the fact that dark color is dominant at the genetic level has led to the predominance of brown-eyed people around the world. According to some reports, the light color of the eyes in a child in the future will not occur at all.
The most interesting about the color of the iris
According to scientists, blue-eyed people did not exist at all ten thousand years ago. Everyone with this shade of the iris has one ancestor, according to researchers.
Fewer people have green eyes than any other. Due to the fact that only every fifty inhabitants of the globe have this shade, they were traditionally burned at different times and at different peoples, sometimes praised and respected, endowing witchcraft abilities in both cases. And the brown-eyed even today has to hear that they have a bad eye and they can jinx someone.
Among the various variations of the three main shades of the iris, it is very rare to see people with red eyes from blood vessels. Although they look unpleasant and even scary, they are not to blame for the fact that they were born albinos. Melanin, due to which the irises of the eyes differ in color, is practically absent in such people.
Eyes - a mirror of the soul
And another interesting fact, someone paid attention to him, someone did not, but the color of the eyes of most, if not all, light-eyed people varies depending on mood, well-being, color of clothes, in stressful situations.
No exception and the color of the eyes of the child. The table above does not tell about this, and there are no specific rules here. All individually. Basically, when the baby is hungry, the eyes darken. He wants to sleep and is naughty - they become muddy. If crying, the color is closer to green, and when satisfied with everything - to blue. Maybe that's why they say that the eyes are the mirror of the soul.
Many parents of the unborn baby and their relatives try to determine the color of the eyes of the child. The table created for this helps them, of course. But it’s more important that the baby is born healthy. And it is much more interesting to observe how the baby will change and what its eyes, nose, hairs will become, and not know in advance. The baby will grow up, and you will see if he is light-eyed or vice versa.