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And no I didn't sleep with the milkman 
Is it possible they could stay blue? My two year olds are brown like both mine and my partners
Is it possible they could stay blue? My two year olds are brown like both mine and my partners
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No, not always. Blue eyes are a recessive gene so can pop up from either parents carrying the gene. It's just less likely for you to have a baby with blue eyes, but as you can see, far from impossible
Thanks. Maybe they will change think they still can till 9 months according to baby websites but people keep coming up looking at him and saying 'nope they're staying blue 'and jokingly asking if I've been sleeping around
My biology is very, very rusty, but I recall something about a recessive gene, where for some reason that comes through now and agan. It's why you get kids with rare diseases or something...
ETA - sorry for in inadequate and slow response there
They don't think that now, and think it's based on a complicated polygenetic bag of genes... which means, yes two brown eyed parents can have a blue eyed baby without an affair with the milkman.
It's unusual, but perfectly possible.
Hmm stupid i pad it wont work :-(
Thanks :-) i shall wait and see but in the meantime keep telling people i haven't slept with the milkman
Kids aren't like puppies or kittens (sadly) - their eyes don't start out one colour and change.
Genes are dominant and recessive. This will be a recessive gene that you or your partner carry but don't express... My mum was lefthanded, which is quite rare in women so you'd think a strong trait - but I am righthanded as are all of my kids. But I, and they, will still have the recessive gene for being lefthanded and one of my kids might one day have lefthanded kids...
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Has anybody heard of this before, or am I a one-off?
Ahhh bugger u got me... But it was the postman not milkman ;-)
Very unusual, not heard of this!
I remember my mother's reaction most of all when she came to wake me up one morning. Hands to her face in shock and "Eeeeeh, your eyes have changed colour!"
I can't actually remember having blue eyes though.
At least One of the parents is carrying the recessive blue gene (written as b) but both carry the dominant brown gene which is the colour expressed (written as
Those with blue eyes have bb, that is the recessive gene on both alleles and so blue is the colour expressed.
Those with brown eyes will have either BB or Bb genes, the dominant brown over-riding the recessive.
So, BB x Bb gives the potential of children carrying either, BB or Bb. All children will have brown eyes but 50% will carry the blue eye gene.
However, when both parents are Bb (brown eyes and carrying the blue gene), 25% of offspring will carry BB, 50% will carry Bb and 25% will carry bb.
So, you and your husband carry the blue gene, there is a one in four chance that you will have a blue eyed child and the same chance that you will have a child who cannot give you blue eyed children.
Am I making ANY sense?
Yes, something like that.
You are reminding me of my Human Biology course even more though.
I need to draw a Mendel chart, this is torture
How many partners do you have?
I had blue eyes as a youngster, Emerald green now.
I tried this and both my parents have/had blue eyes and it said eye colour error due to my parents having blue eyes, My children share my green eyes as does my aunt