The bard, as part of the rogue group, was one of the standard character classes available in the second edition Player's Handbook; in this edition, the bard was regularized.
Also, not all babies are born with blue eyes. Babies of African, Asian, and Hispanic descent are more likely to be born with brown eyes. This is because darker-skinned individuals tend to have more melanin in their eyes than Caucasians. Even so, a baby's eye color may deepen over time.
When our son was born, he had very dark blue eyes. At about 3 months, I noticed what looked like little flecks of gold mixed into the blue. A few weeks later, his eyes had become completely golden brown. Both my husband and I have brown eyes, so like you, we weren't expecting our baby to have blue eyes.