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Will my baby's eyes stay blue..? — Weekly Glance

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A study out of the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University tracked 148 babies born in California, recording their iris color at birth.

Nearly two-thirds of babies were born with brown eyes, and one-fifth with blue.

Two years later, the ophthalmologist leading the study and her colleagues found that of the 40 blue-eyed babies in the study, 11 had brown eyes by the age of two, three had hazel eyes, and two had green eyes. 

Of the 77 brown-eyed newborns, almost all (73) still had brown eyes by the age of two. It appears, then, that blue eyes are much more likely to change color than brown eyes during the early stages of our lives. (via)