(So if your newborn baby has dark eyes, they won't change to blue ... neonatal and pediatric hospitalist Are all babies born with blue eyes? No, it's a myth that all babies are born with blue ...

Since melanocytes respond to light and babies are in the comfort and darkness of the womb, they have little melanin, and therefore mostly blue eyes when they're born.

When my daughter turned two-and-a-half, I realised that her eyes were starting to shift away from the baby blues she was born ...