Is it a myth that all newborn babies have blue eyes?

It is no myth. The color is a darker blue than the normal blue eye. Over a period of several months the permanent color develops.

I thought that only applied to kittens.

Mine had brown eyes. So, as Adam Savage would say: Myth Busted!

I don’t know if you can call it “blue,” it is a unique color. Not like the blue eyes you see on blue eyed adults. It has to do with melanin not being fully developed in the iris, and may be more noticeable on certain infants than on others.

Sorry about my generalization. Babies with light skin have the unique bluish eyes.

My son’s eyes were grey until he was about 6 months old, then they turned blue.

It’s only true if you equate “people” with “Caucasians”.

@Mritty

…or assume baby cats.

:)

@MrItty My baby brother was born with that dark blue eye color, and he’s not Caucasian, strictly speaking. Well technically he isn’t African either. But if Obama’s black so is he. African-American works pretty well. My dad’s American, my step-mom’s African, as in from Kenya.

I’m not sure what color they will be, but they are changing. He’s two months old as of today.

I have heard that all babies are born with blue eyes, but I think that it’s probably many babies are born with blue eyes. I’m interested to find out more.

I think the idea is that babies aren’t born with their permanent eye color. The pigment just hasn’t settled in the iris, yet. In some babies it appears as that murky, dark blue color that people refer to when they say “all babies are born with blue eyes.”
I’m no expert, but that seems to make the most sense.

I had brown eyes at birth, as did my sister and my brother.

My dad had blue eyes. My mom’s are light brown with green flecks.

My husband has blue eyes….our son was born much to our surprise with light blue eyes. Over the course of two years his eyes changed to gray, hazel…and then to brown. Eye color change is not common for either of our families.

We were expecting a baby with blonde hair and either blue or brown eyes that stayed that color…we got a brown haired baby lots of hair…my husband & I were bald until two with blue eyes that changed.

@ItalianPrincess1217 Expect the unexpected ;)

EDIT: I am very Caucasian

newborn mammalian critters have blue eyes.

@anartist No. Many mammal critters I have had as pets were born with med or brown eyes.

I only remember one of my three kids having that dark blue-ish color. I’m almost certain the other two had brown eyes from birth.

I forgot about myself. I was born with brown eyes and brown hair. My eyes turned blue when I was a few days old and all my hair fell out. When it came back in, it was blonde.

I have four brown-eyed kids and two brown-eyed granddaughters, and they were all born with dark greyish eyes. This is because the melanin in your eyes have to be exposed to ultra-violet light to activate the pigment. No one can be born with brown eyes (sorry) although the iris of a soon-to-be brown-eyed baby can be very dark grey.

@ItalianPrincess1217 Here’s a visual genetics chart for you to see what eye color your baby will most likely have

@SpatzieLover Cool eye chart! But it doesn’t take into consideration dormant genes. I was told that since I am brown-eyed and did not have a blue-eyed parent or grandparent, that there was no way in hell that I could produce anything but a brown-eyed child. My spouse was blue-eyed, as was everyone in his family from as long as anyone could remember. Still, I would have to at least have a blue-eyed dormant gene in there somewhere, and I don’t. However, my kids could have a blue-eyed child, since their father was blue-eyed. My son had a child with a blue-eyed wife, and still no luck.

FYI: Babies who are of dark-skinned descent are born with grayish white skin that turns black or brown as the melanin in their skin develops and is exposed to ultra-violet light. :) Same principal with the eyes.

Mine all had that gray-blue eye color as infants; one ended up with blue eyes, the others hazel. With one of them, I thought his eyes were going to stay grayish-blue… then about one month before his second birthday, they started changing and were hazel within about two weeks. Some of my grandkids have brown eyes, and their eyes were a lot darker at birth than any of my babies’ were.

I had more of a brownish color that then turned hazel green.