Re: daughter with heterochromia

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>

> hi my daughter is 2 months and one of her eyes is blue the other is

> part blue and part hazel - how early is herterochromia detected? do

you

> think her eyes will always be different colors? Is this hard to

live

> with?

>

I'm not sure about some of your questions, such as how early

heterochromia can be/is detected and if her eyes will always be

different colors. I've lived with heterochromia (my left eye is brown

and my right eye is green) for all of my 29 years and never found

it 'hard' to live with. Of course there was teasing, i.e. you have

eyes like that dog!, and of course, what happened to your eyes?!?!

But most of the time, people either don't notice because when people

talk, they usually stare only at one eye of the other person (test

this out yourself!) and when they do notice, I get the " Did you know

you have different colored eyes? " or " That's really

neat/cool/awesome/etc. " So as for the hard to live with part, I'm not

too sure what you mean by that. Just something that she should be

proud of since she's different!

Check out this site, maybe some helpful info for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia

and

http://en.allexperts.com/e/h/he/heterochromia.htm

Hannah

[Guest guest]

>

> hi my daughter is 2 months and one of her eyes is blue the other is

> part blue and part hazel - how early is herterochromia detected? do

you

> think her eyes will always be different colors? Is this hard to live

> with?

>

One other website that could help:

http://assets.aarp.org/external_sites/adam/html/1/003319.html

[Guest guest]

its not hard to live with, there just my eyes which are exactly like your daughters

some people notice and comment, some people do not comment, i was born with my eyes,

not sure if your daughters will change , were her eyes two different colours at birth?

heterochromia From: ldgrayson15@...Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:27:46 +0000Subject: daughter with heterochromia

hi my daughter is 2 months and one of her eyes is blue the other is part blue and part hazel - how early is herterochromia detected? do you think her eyes will always be different colors? Is this hard to live with? Read amazing stories to your kids on Messenger Try it Now!

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Hello,

You should bring this to the attention of your daughter's doctor, as there are certain conditions that have heterochromia as a side effect. It's not likely that she has any of these conditions; the main symptoms are much more noticeable than heterochromia. Check out the wikipedia article on Heterochromia for more information.

What your daughter has is sectoral heterochromia (as opposed to central heterochromia like Elfstar). This is much easier on her eyesight and should not effect her ability to focus in bright light...really she shouldn't have any difficulty that would be attributed to her heterochromia.

Basically, your daughter is probably fine, and will grow up to love her unique eyes. She's in good company with us heterochromiacs, and don't hesitate to ask any questions; this is a great group of people.

From: ldgrayson15 <ldgrayson15@...>Subject: daughter with heterochromiaheterochromia Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 2:27 PM

hi my daughter is 2 months and one of her eyes is blue the other is part blue and part hazel - how early is herterochromia detected? do you think her eyes will always be different colors? Is this hard to live with?

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What

a lucky little girl!! I have a hazel/brown right eye and a blue/green

hazel left eye- I have been told by my family my whole life how beautiful

and unique my eyes are- (what a great self esteem booster) There

are a lot of famous people with different colored eyes:

Dan

Aykroyd

Kiefer

Sutherland

Walken

Kate Bosworth

Mila

Kunis

Jane Seymour

the Great

Aristotle

Anastasios

Dicorus

Miss

America 2004 (rumor?)

Marilyn

Manson (faker - uses colored contact lenses)

Yuna (character from the video game Final

Fantasy X)

Musician Bowie is often thought to have heterochromia, but

this is not the case as Bowie's eyes are both blue (his left pupil is

permanently dilated due to a childhood injury).

Have

you seen the movie " Practical Magic " ?-- The girl is looking for her

" Impossible perfect man-- with one blue eye and one green eye "

We

even have our own special day-- July 12th!! " Different Colored Eyes

Day "

http://www.holidayinsights.com:80/moreholidays/July/coloredeyesday.htm

**And

the perfect book for your beautiful little girl would be: " The Incredible Peepers of

Penelope Budd " --by Marie Karns--a great story about a little girl with

different colored eyes. You should be able to find it on Amazon.com or

half.com I bought a copy for my niece's son-- who is my little

look-alike—2 years old now.

Marcia

[Guest guest]

What a lucky little girl!! I have a hazel/brown right eye and a blue/green

hazel left eye- I have been told by my family my whole life how beautiful and

unique my eyes are- (what a great self esteem booster) There are a lot of

famous people with different colored eyes:

1. Dan Aykroyd

2. Kiefer Sutherland

3. Walken

4. Kate Bosworth

5. Mila Kunis

6. Jane Seymour (of " Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman " )

7. the Great (source)

8. Aristotle

9. Anastasios Dicorus

10. Miss America 2004 (rumor?)

11. Marilyn Manson (faker - uses colored contact lenses)

12. Yuna (character from the video game Final Fantasy X)

Musician Bowie is often thought to have heterochromia, but this is not the

case as Bowie's eyes are both blue (his left pupil is permanently dilated due to

a childhood injury).

Have you seen the movie " Practical Magic " ?-- The girl is looking for her

" Impossible perfect man-- with one blue eye and one green eye "

We even have our own special day--I hope everyone celebrated July 12th!!

" Different Colored Eyes Day "

http://www.holidayinsights.com:80/moreholidays/July/coloredeyesday.htm

**And the perfect book for your beautiful little girl would be: " The Incredible

Peepers of Penelope Budd " --by Marie Karns--a great story about a little girl

with different colored eyes. You should be able to find it on Amazon.com or

half.com I bought a copy for my niece's son-- who is my little look-alike—2

years old now.

Marcia

>

> Hello I am hoping you all will be able to give me some advice. My daughter,

now 6 months old, has two different colored eyes. One eye is a true blue, the

other is hazel to brownish. Now at 6 months of age it is likely that this is

her eye colors. My aunt has to different colored eyes and my cousin has a

splash so I am guessing this is where it came from.

>

> I was wondering if you all had any advice to a parent that can help. As far

as any self esteem issues or teasing from other children? Of course we think

the two different eye colors is pretty cool, but I want to make sure that it

never is an issue for our daughter as well. Any advice or insight would be

great!

>

> Thanks in advance!

>