A mother has beaten odds of a million-to-one by
giving birth to a baby who appears to be of a
different race.
Catherine Howarth, 32, from Milton Keynes, is
Nigerian by heritage, and so was, at first, a little
taken aback when she saw her son Jonah for the
first time.
With his pale skin, green eyes and light brown hair,
Jonah, according to MailOnline, now three months
old, looks like any other new-born baby – but,
when seen in his mother’s arms, his uniqueness is
obvious.
Recalling the moment she delivered Jonah in
Milton Keynes Hospital on June 1, his mother told
the Sunday Mirror: “The midwife looked at me and
looked back down at Jonah and then at me again
and couldn’t believe it.”
“Some children get darker after a few weeks when
the skin colour they will have for life starts to
become obvious. But you can see from the colour
at the tips of their ears and that showed Jonah was
fully white.
“We have been told I must have been carrying a
recessive gene. My parents were from Nigeria and,
for as far back as anyone can remember; my
family have all been black.”
Husband Richard, 34, who works as a medical
recruitment consultant, was equally as shocked
when he first saw his son, who is the couple’s first
child together.
However, he was primarily just happy that Jonah
was strong and healthy, after he got the umbilical
cord tangled round his neck during labour – a
potentially dangerous complication.
“The colour of Jonah’s skin is of no concern –
Jonah being a healthy and happy baby is what
matters.”
The couple have been told that they are unlikely to
have another white baby if they have further
children, due to the extremely rare combination of
genes needed.
The phenomenon is not totally unheard of
however.
In 2010, parents Benjaman and Angela Ihegboro –
both black – introduced their white-skinned,
blonde-haired daughter Nmachi to the world.
The couple, from Woolwich, South London, was as
baffled as the scientific community at their
daughter’s appearance, being unaware of any white
heritage at all in either family.
Doctors at Queen Mary Hospital in Sidcup in Kent,
where Nmachi was born, immediately ruled out
albinism, leading experts to conclude, that like
Jonah, Nmachi’s colouring must be the result of
recessive genes.

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