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

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