My Boy's First Shiner

[Mayet]

The kids were all playing happily in their cubby house shed, when there was a thud. I waited and sure enough within three seconds the yelling began. Brodie came into the house all upset rubbing his eye. Of course at the sight of blood I near fainted. I got the story out of them finally, they were playing on the bike, which they wern't allowed to touch and Kaelan pushed Shayla who in turn fell with the bike onto Brodie...

Now he's off to daycare with his first shiner and I have to face the accusatory looks "like you beat on your son" and make me feel all guilty like about being a bad bad mum...

ahh such is life, he is ok now but he hates to see his eye in the mirror..I think even at 3 hes getting very vain....

Meanwhile a couple of pics at the cutest most sweetest baby in the whole wide world...and shes mine......





I do have a question, out of all my kids, the baby always has red eye on pics. None of the others do and it doesn't matter if she is looking at the cam or not. Why is this. She is he only one with blue eyes but i doubt that would cause it

theres a whole series of pics if anyone wants to take a look a my babies
from http://www.rejectz.com/kch1.jpg through to http://www.rejectz.com/kch13.jpg

[ross.v]

When your baby is in a dark environment, their pupils dilate in order to absorb more light. When a flash directly aimed at them goes off, the bright light reflects the red blood vessels at the back of the eye, causing the eyes to look red. This is not as likely to happen if you are using a pop-up or independent flash- the further above your lens that your flash is situated, the less likely it is that red-eye will occur.
Though it is difficult to prevent red-eye, there are a few things you can do. When you are in the market for a new camera, look for one that has red-eye reduction, a function that fires the flash several times to adjust the pupils before the shutter actually opens. The ultimate way to prevent red-eye, though is to take advantage of natural lighting as often as possible.

Hope it makes sense..

[xpuser357]

You can also obtain Adobe photo shop 7 and take the red out and put back
the color of your pretty girls eyes

[confus-ed]

..I do have a question, out of all my kids, the baby always has red eye on pics. None of the others do and it doesn't matter if she is looking at the cam or not. Why is this. She is he only one with blue eyes but i doubt that would cause it ..

You are right, despite thinking you aren't ! , its to do with the absortion qualities of certain colours of iris ..

Red-eye is a reflection of the flash off of the subject's retina. It is more pronounced in pale people (blond, blue eyes, or light-red hair). It is also more pronounced in children.

Try this page for tips on how to reduce it

[Mayet]

well That would explain it...even though her father is part Spanish, my father is Irish with red hair and hazel eyes and consequently Kahleah, my littlest princess has ginger hair.

Anyhows my baby, Kahleah Celeste, eyes are a aqua blue/green colour centre going out to dark blue blue, which is the standard colour most days. To a steely /grey/blue and shiny on days when it is going to rain. Its sort of like when you look at a river of water or the sea, on a clear day, its a lighter blue green and on a cloudy day it reflects the dark blue grey skies.

Some days surprise me, in the morning it is fine and sunny and no clouds, yet Kahleahs eyes go steely and sure enough, within a couple of hours it clouds over and rains. Her eyes are spot on everytime and now people around me are starting to sit up when i say its going to rain. Even the markings in the colored bit change, when its going to rain the circle bits get rounder and more prominent and when its not they are narrow and elongated. I spend a lot of time looking into my babies eyes and people here agree its spot on and so unusual.

it is more so unusual for me because i am used to looking into Brown eyes with my other kids, sometimes I wonder how the heck she got lighter coloured eyes to start with...the wonders of genetics.....


Does anyone else have eyes that change with the weather? I have heard of joints swelling and aches starting, or even sneezing but never eyes.

what's surprising to me with Kahleahs is that they are changed before the skies start to show any promise or hint of change.



Kahleahs Irish Celt looks ..... with Her standard colour and pattern..I will take one of her tomorrow when it rains to show you the colour change



Her Full blood sister, with her spanish looks from their anscestors

[confus-ed]

Does anyone else have eyes that change with the weather? I have heard of joints swelling and aches starting, or even sneezing but never eyes...

I think you could have a hidden career with this one .. imagine being the only weather forcaster who uses eye colour as a forcasting tool - it'd certainly be a unique service !

My eye colour supposedly changes with my mood, much more green when I'm emotional, & much browner when I'm lying, my mother is intensly annoying with this having an alarming level of accuracy based on this theory...

But I can add some scientific fact to both 'notions' due to my knowledge about intercranial pressure gleaned from my daughters (sometimes seemingly) endless visits to hospital ..

The iris is an annulus (or flattened ring) consisting of pigmented fibrovascular tissue known as a stroma. The stroma connects a sphincter muscle, which contracts the pupil, and a set of dialator muscles which open it. The back surface is covered by a two-cell thick epithelial layer, the iris pigment epithelium, but the front surface has no epithelium. The outer edge of the iris, known as the root, is attached to the sclera and the anterior ciliary body. The iris and ciliary body together are known as the anterior uvea. Just in front of the root of the iris is the region through which the aqueous humour constantly drains out of the eye

So, he says making quite a jump in reasoning, external air pressure (think barometers which do exactly the same 'predictive' stuff) can have an effect on eye colour, as when external pressure changes your eyes should adjust their internal pressure, thus making the iris more or less contracted, thus changing the apparent colour. ..

[Mayet]

That would be it. I often have thought that somehow they work like a barometer but I haven't had the time to study too much on it, except to observe and connect what is happening. I also notice that the eyes have two sort of levels on the colour bit, one layer over another, the top layer is like a soft cover but it is not completely round, its got gaps (sorta holes) in it or patterns. In Kahelahs they are sort of ovals, stretching from the centre out, when it is going to rain they change shape, which I guess would change the colour as each layer seems a different shade. When its going to rain her gaps in the top layer get more circular, Letting the darker shade underneath prevail.

[Khazad]

The little hellions are looking good Mayet. That's interesting with the little one's eye color changes. My brother's eye (only one of them) is changing color the optometrist told him that eventually he'll have two different colored eyes (one brown the other an almost orange)