Almost everyone has melanin in the back layer. The amount of melanin ... and neonatal and pediatric hospitalist Are all babies born with blue eyes? No, it's a myth that all babies are born with ...

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.

The following day, doctors diagnosed Maeve with bilateral anophthalmia, a condition where a baby is born without eyes ... replaced with prosthetic eyes, matched in blue to her twin sister's ...

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 with and into ... which gives them that blue-grey appearance ...