If your child’s melanocytes don’t secrete much more melanin in the months and years ahead, then their eyes will stay blue. (Though remember, ethnicity also comes into play - so some babies will produce more melanin than others. Melanocytes respond to light, and since your newborn has spent the last several months in total darkness, there wasn’t much light to trigger melanin production in the irises. Blue eyes mean there is little melanin in the iris. What gives an iris its color is a natural pigment called melanin, a protein secreted by special cells called melanocytes. If your baby had jaundice at birth - don’t worry, this isn’t uncommon - the sclera may have been a little yellowish. The white part of the eye is called the sclera. The term “eye color” refers to the color of the iris, the ring around the pupil, which is black.
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