Angela Ihegboro couldn't say anything when she saw her newborn daughter for the first time.
Yesterday, the 35-year-old mother said, "She's a miracle child." "But still, what in the world is going on here?"
What happened is that baby Nmachi is a white boy with blue eyes and blonde hair. He was born in a London hospital to two black Nigerian immigrants.
"What the hell?" was the first thing the father, Ben Ihegboro, said. "After she was born, we both just sat there and looked at her for a long time without saying anything."
He quickly tried to put an end to any rumors.
"She is mine, of course. The 44-year-old customer service rep said, "My wife is true to me." "The baby wouldn't look like that even if she hadn't been."
Geneticists don't believe in miracles, but they didn't know what was going on with baby Nmachi either. Instead, they came up with three ideas:
She is the result of a unique change in her genes. If that's true, Nmachi would probably pass the gene on to her children, who would probably also be white.
She has white genes that have been dormant for a long time. Her parents gave her those genes, which may have been passed down from their ancestors for generations without showing up until now.
Doctors have said that Nmachi is not a true albino because she has some pigment on her skin. However, they have also said that the child may have a mutated form of the genetic condition and that her skin could get darker over time.