Expert: Walter Hintz - 10/12/2006

Question
I have dark brown hair and hazel eyes my husband has brown hair and hazel eyes too. My mother has brown hair and brown eyes and my father has black hair and blue eyes my husbands mother has brown hair and brown eyes and his father blond hair and blue eyes. We have a 10 month old with really blue eyes and blond hair what will are next baby have.All my sisters and brothers have brown eyes and blond hair and my husbands sister has blond hair and blue eyes.

Answer
 Hi tanya
This gets kind of complicated because eye color and hair color is based upon more that a single pair of genes but you and your husband are obviously carriers of recessive blue  and blond genes.  The odds of children from such a cross bieng blue eyed blonds are about 25%.  I have the same situation personally with two children with dark hair and eyes and a girl with blue eyes anf light hair