Eye Color of Newborn Babies: What Parents Need To Know

A recent story tells parents to wait for a couple of months or even a year to know what their newborn baby's eye color really is. According to newborn specialists, the eye color of babies can still change and develop throughout their growth specifically during their first year.

"Most babies have fairly nondescript eyes when they're born, with colors ranging from slate to gray-blue to blue-black to dark bluish-brown,"  stated in an informative article posted in Bundoo. "Over the next few months, as the infant's body ramps up its production of melanin (the protein that causes pigmentation), your baby's eye color is set to become more apparent."

Likewise, it is also reported that darker-skinned parents tend to have newborn babies with darker eyes. Hence, parents with the same eye color will usually have babies with the same eye color. If one parent has blue eyes and the other has green eyes, it is possible that the baby will have an eye color similar to any of the parents.

According to Baby Center, African and Asian babies usually have brown eyes. The African and Asian babies' eyes will usually remain the same all their life.

Caucasian babies are usually born with steel grey or dark blue eyes that may stay that way or turn green, hazel, or brown after a few months because the baby's iris of the eyes tends to gain more pigment as time goes by. It may take nine to twelve months for the Caucasian babies' eyes to fully develop into its permanent eye color.

For many parents, the eye color of newborn babies is significant to them but is less important compared to finding out the specific health condition of their babies' eyes. Baby Center also says that babies need to have their eyes checked and screened for eye vision, eye movement, infections, allergies, diseases and blocked tear ducts.