Does wearing contacts throughout pregnancy cause your baby to adopt eyes that are colors of the contact?

Question

I heard that if you wear a colored contact throughout your pregnancy, your baby will come out with eyes thesame color as the contact. My friend tried this with green contacts and her baby really did come out with green eyes even though both parents have brown eyes. And may I also include that the parents are black and we know how rare it is for a black to have green eyes. So is this all really a myth or can/does it truly happen? if not then what about my friend?

Answer 1

no that is so stupid sorry

Answer 2

A myth of course silly.

Answer 3

Its hard to believe that........where does it leave genetics....in the bin?

Answer 4

You have got to be kidding me with that question.  Do you really think that can happen? The answer is no, it cannot.

Answer 5

no unfortuantly it does not! Eye color is based on genetics. yourr eyes can not tell the diffrence between tne color contacts. WIht your friends it is most likley that they both had recessive trait od green eyes. its sort of liek a puzzle peice that they both were hiding, teh baby enharited tehse "puzzle peices" and they fit together just right to have green eyes.

Answer 6

Where do these ridiculous myths come from?

Answer 7

People really crack me up.

Just because both sets of parents have brown eyes and it may be rare for a black person to have green eyes doesn't mean it can't happen. They could take after someone way down the gene pool. Many many ancestors ago may have had someone with green eyes and that is where they got it from. It just cracks me up when people say that can't possibly have this or that because it doesn't look like someone in the immediate family.

Contacts have nothing to do with what color your babies eyes will be. This is stupid.

Answer 8

There should be a way we could vote for the dumbest myth/story/ question, of the week.....

This one would be the winner !

Answer 9

No the color of your eyes have nothing to do with colored contacts your mother wore when pregnant, it has to do with the genes you inherit from both sets of parents.

Answer 10

It's 100% a myth. Your friends baby was a coincidence. Your child's eye color will have absolutely nothing to do with what color contacts you're wearing during pregnancy. Eye color is determined by the genetics of the two parents. Sure the parents of your friends baby both have brown eyes, but they also must have carried the gene for green eyes as well. Believe me, it has nothing to do with the color contacts she wore during her pregnancy.

Hope this helps. :-)