When the long nine months of waiting are left behind, and with them the difficult process of delivery, which can be more beautiful than hugging and pressing your newborn baby to yourself! For each mother, the first minutes of union with the baby are remembered for life. What kind of family these little hands and feet look like! A special interest in the newly mum causes eye color in the newborn. Many parents seek from the very first days to determine who their baby looks like by his eye color.
The color of the eyes in newborns can vary during the first year of life, and sometimes even up to a more mature age. Up to three months in most cases, in children, the color of the eyes is uncertain.
The color of the eyes in newborns depends on the pigment of melanin. The amount of pigment determines the color of the iris of the eye. When there is a lot of melanin, the color of the eyes becomes brown, when little - gray, blue or green. In all newborns, the color of the eyes is almost the same - dull gray or dull blue. This is due to the fact that melanin is absent in the iris of the baby. The change in eye color in newborns begins when the development of this pigment occurs. This physiological process of producing pigment melanin directly depends on the individual characteristics of the child and on his heredity. Often a newborn changes eye color several times. In this case, the development of melanin pigment is carried out gradually, as the baby grows. In some cases, the iris of the eye acquires its final color only to three to four years. Therefore, if the color of the eyes in newborns changes to this age, there is nothing terrible in this.
Influence on the color of the eyes in newborns has such a childish problem as jaundice. This disease is accompanied by yellowing of the proteins, in connection with which, it is impossible to determine the color of the eyes. Jaundice in newborns is often enough. Liver kid is imperfect and it is not able to immediately cope with its function in full. This causes yellow skin of the baby and yellowness of the proteins. As a rule, jaundice passes by itself in a few days after birth. And a good preventive against jaundice is the sun's rays.
Some interesting facts about the color of the eyes:
- The most common color of the eyes in the world is brown, and the rarest - the green. Less than two percent of the population of our planet are the owners of green eyes. In some countries in Asia and South America, green eyes are not found in humans at all;
- Less than one percent of newborns are born with a phenomenon called heterochromia. This means that the eyes of the baby are of different colors;
- geneticists have the opinion that the color of the eyes in newborns is transferred according to Mendel's law. The law says that parents with dark eyes, most likely there will be a child with dark eyes. At parents with light eyes - the kid with light eyes. If the parents have a different eye color, the eye color of the newborn will represent something average.
No expert in the world can tell exactly what color the eyes of your newborn baby will have. Therefore, parents can only guess on this issue, or wait until the individual features of the baby manifest, and the color of the eyes will acquire its final color.