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, 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 what that 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.
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.

her husband is white so am not too suprised