When do there eyes change or can you tell the "real" color? Madeline is almost 5 months ans still has beautiful steely, hazel eyes, they have changed since birth but have been this way for like 2 months now. Daddy and I have brown, but there are blue genes in our family *crossing fingers they stay this way*
Q: When and why does a newborn’s eye color change? —Mamabaehr, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A: Babies’ eyes change from blue to their natural color by age three. Exposure to light after birth triggers the production of melanin in the stroma. In three years, the eyes produce and store enough brown pigment to take on their natural shade.
Before that, a baby’s eyes lack melanin in the stroma—much like blue-eyed people. Special stroma cells (called melanocytes) make melanin as the baby ages. We think that the amount and the distribution of melanin stored in these cells account for iris color.
