Why do most babies eyes start out as blue and then change color as the baby grows?

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Why newborn's have blue eyes The color of our eyes comes from melanin, the pigment that also colors our hair and skin. At birth, a baby's body isn't finished producing this pigment yet. Over the first year of life, as our eyes develop and our bodies produce more melanin, our irises gradually change from "baby" blue to their permanent color.So, what produces the color in green or hazel or brown or black eyes?

Actually, despite the many different colors that our eyes can have, the color of the actual pigment in all of them is exactly the same. Melanin only comes in one shade -- yellow-brown. The variations in eye colors come not from the *color* of the pigment in the iris, but rather from the *amount* of the pigment our iris produces.

As more melanin is produced, the eye's color changes from light blue to dark blue to green to hazel to brown. You might be wondering why newborn babies' eyes are blue, rather than some other color, like pink or white. Actually, at birth, our irises don't have much color at all.

In nature, things that don't actually have color, like water or the sky, often look blue. That's because blue is the most easily "scattered," or reflected, color of light in the spectrum --it's like nature's "default" color. Before our irises produce melanin, they don't reflect any color, so, like the sky, they look blue, too.

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Melanin "Melanin is a brown pigment molecule that is deposited in the irises of your eyes; it’s also deposited in your hair and skin. As a baby, the melanin hasn’t been fully deposited or exposed to UV lights, which makes the pigment darker. The amount of melanin that your body has is an inherited trait, because it’s a protein coded for by a gene.

If you inherit a small amount of melanin, you eyes will stay light as you get older, and if you inherit a large amount of melanin, your eyes will turn darker. "Remember that other genes can also control eye/skin color. Not all babies depend on melanin.

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Developmental pigmentation many children have very little to no pigmentation when born. It is something that develops as the child matures, just as the pigment of a Polaroid picture. One of the factor is that light and uv rays affects the pigmentation of then skin, hair and eyes.

The different types of eye color are rooted in the three 'races', based on where they are geographically located: Negroid, Mongoloid, Caucasoid. Along with expansionism has come with genetic altering involving adding opposite alleles to families that would normally have similar alleles. IE a family with all brown eyes adding the blue-eyed alleles, etc, etc.I did some research but the research I came up with had a lot of technical jargon that doesn't really apply so I just kind of used what I knew and put it in best terms possible for explanation.

When caucasian babies are born, their iris doesn't have all of it's pigment yet Blue eyes have the least possible amount of a pigment called melanin. As the baby grows, more melanin is released into the iris, changing it to its natural color. I've heard that you shouldn't decide what the baby's permanent eye color will be until their first birthday, because it may take this long for the pigment to fully develop.

However, usually babies with dark skin will be born with their eyes already dark brown.

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