INCREDIBLE! NIGERIAN WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO A WHOLLY WHITE BABY IN THE UK

A Nigerian mother, Catherine Howarth dumbfounded medical personnel at Milton Keynes Hospital in the United Kingdom recently when she was handed her newly-delivered baby boy and he came out wholly white. Financial analyst Catherine, 32, is married to white medical recruitment consultant, Jonah, 34 and they were both expecting their child to have the conventional mixed-race appearance. When Catherine was handed her child, she was convinced she had been given the wrong baby, as even doctors said the chances of him being wholly white were an incredible one in a million.   Catherine said: “The midwife looked at me and looked back down at Jonah and then at me again and couldn’t believe it. The doctors confirmed it was extremely rare.”   Although the couple plan to have more children, they have been told the chances of them also being born white are highly unlikely. Mr Howarth too was equally astonished as he had expected his son to have darker skin.   He said: “When I first set eyes on my baby boy Jonah, it was a feeling of pure delight and relief that he was healthy and

strong. His complexion was very pale due to the umbilical cord being wrapped around his neck when he was being delivered.   “After a few hours his colour came to his cheeks and Catherine and I noticed his complexion was very similar to mine and were surprised it was as light. The midwives and doctors told us he’ll most likely remain this colour.”   Mrs Howarth added: “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 will be. We saw straight away that Jonah was fully white and doctors have said he is not an albino.   “We have been told that 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 but at some point there must have been a white gene in my family that has remained dormant for years and years until now."   She added that doctors said they had only found two similar cases, both in the US, that had been reported in recent times. In 2010  Nmachi Ihegboro, was born wholly white despite having two black parents, while nine years ago, mixed-race couple Kylie Hodgson, 27 and Remi Horder, 25, from Nottingham, became parents to twin daughters, with one being white and one black. -