In a moment of profound wonder, Sophia delivered a white-skinned baby, and William’s tears flowed freely when he learned the astonishing truth behind her appearance …

The 20th of July in London is a holiday. According to the Sun, a couple of African descent gave birth to a white, blue-eyed blonde child on Monday in London’s Hempstead. Emma Thompson, a British national, has astonished genetic specialists who confirm the small girl is not an albino.

We both just sat there staring at her after the birth, William, a 44-year-old customer service advisor, said after the birth. She’s lovely, a miracle baby, said Sophia, 35, of Woolwich, South London, beaming as she described her daughter. William described how he was utterly shocked when Emma was born, to the point that he joked, is she mine? His explanation was as follows.

Actually, the first thing I did was look at her and exclaim, what the heck? As the baby’s elder brother and sister, both of whom are African American, gathered around the little miracle at their South London home, William proclaimed, of course she’s mine. Because neither William nor his wife Sophia have any mixed-race family history, genetic specialists have been baffled by the birth of Emma, a blue-eyed blonde whose name means universal beauty in the Nigerian couple’s home country. It’s possible that the baby’s appearance was caused by pale genes passed down through generations before resurfacing.

My wife is loyal to me, William also stated emphatically. Even if she hadn’t been there, the baby wouldn’t have looked like that at all. After the birth, we both just sat there staring at her for what seemed like an eternity, not saying anything.

Sophia, who’s from nearby Woolwich, gave birth to Emma at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, and doctors there have informed her parents that Emma is absolutely not an albino. William, who moved to the United Kingdom with his wife five years ago and now works for Southeastern Trains, explained that his daughter doesn’t seem like an albino child either, not like the ones I’ve seen back in Nigeria or in literature. William and his wife are both from Nigeria.

She just appears to be a perfectly healthy white baby. My mother is a black Nigerian. However, she has a slightly fairer complexion than I do, he continued.

However, we are not aware of any white ancestors. We began to wonder if it was a result of a genetic twist. However, what’s with the long curly blonde hair, says the narrator? Professor David Wilson, head of the Department of Human Genetics at Oxford University and one of the country’s foremost experts, described the birth as exceptional yesterday.

In mixed-race humans, the lighter form of skin tone may emerge in a child, and this can sometimes be strikingly different from the skin tone of the parents, he explained. This may be the case in groups where there has been a great deal of genetic mixing, such as Afro-Caribbean people. In Nigeria, however, there is little mingling.

Professor Wilson stated that both parents would have needed some type of white heritage for a pale version of their genes to be passed on to their children. However, the hair is quite rare, he continued. It’s true that even the majority of blonde youngsters do not have blonde hair like this from birth.

According to the expert, the most likely explanation was a previously undisclosed mutation. The rules of genetics are complex, and we still don’t understand what’s going on in many cases, he said. After becoming a mother to twin children, one white and one black in Nottingham five years ago, Lily Bennett is now expecting her third child.

Lily, who is now 23 years old, and her partner, Oliver Clarke, who is 21 years old, are both of mixed race. Despite this, the odds were believed to be one in a million. Following an error by a reproductive clinic, the Sun reported in 2002 that an American couple had Asian twins as a result.

Sophia, the mother of three-day-old Emma, who was delivered through Caesarean section, acknowledged yesterday that she was speechless when she first saw her baby girl, who was delivered via Caesarean. I was thinking, what is this small doll, she explained. She’s absolutely stunning, and I adore her.

It makes no difference what color she is. She’s truly a miraculous child. However, what on earth has happened here, says the author.

Her husband related how their four-year-old son, Liam, was even more perplexed than they were by his new sibling. Our other daughter, Ava, is just two years old, so she’s too little to understand, William explained. Our son, on the other hand, keeps going over to look at his sister and then sits down, seeming perplexed.

We’re a black family, says the father. He gets a white sister all of a sudden. As William added, of course we’re perplexed as well, and we want to know what’s going on.

But as we all know, life is a strange place. What’s important is that she’s healthy, and we care about her. She is a proud Nigerian-British woman.

Congratulations to Sophia and her family on the birth of their daughter, stated a statement from Queen Mary’s Hospital. Another similar story happened also, as a black mother gives birth to a one-in-a-million white daughter with blue eyes and reveals strangers’ questions about whether they’re related. When Charlotte Harris gave birth to her daughter, Mia, she expected her to bear more than a passing resemblance to her.

She was not alone in this expectation, as many mothers are. Mia’s father, Thomas Turner, age 60, a retired sales manager, is white, but the couple expected their newborn girl to be a mix of the two of them at the very least. As a result, they were taken aback when Mia was born with white skin and blue eyes.

As she grew older, they predicted that Mia’s hair and skin would get darker. As a result, everything has remained the same, and their child has grown into an absolutely stunning young lady, albeit one with white hair and blue eyes. Doctors estimated that the chances of Mia, 4, becoming as white as her father are one in a million.

Mia’s father is African-American. Although they’re not physically related, the fact that the mother and daughter look nothing similar is causing confusion because many people do not believe they’re even related. Furthermore, Ms. Harris has a daughter, Zoe, 17, from a previous relationship with a black man, and she too is a black woman like her mother, making the situation more pronounced.

It’s impossible for Ms. Harris, a marketing executive from Selly Oak, Birmingham, to go down the street with Mia without someone making a passing observation. People simply don’t believe Mia is my daughter since she appears to be so dissimilar to me. When she was very small, it didn’t bother me too much.

However, as Mia has gotten older, this has become more of an issue for her. Before I had Mia, I didn’t realize how strongly we all identify ourselves with being white or black, and the dilemma now is that Mia comes from a black family yet appears to be of white skin tone. Why don’t we look alike, mommy? she wonders all the time.

I explain to her that she’s of mixed ethnicity, but she finds it really perplexing. Ms. Harris, who is estranged from her daughter’s father, had hoped to give birth to a child with dark skin and afro hair, according to her doctor. Black skin is typically dominant, and my family, which is descended from Jamaica, is predominantly black, she explains.

But at the very least, I imagined Mia to be a hybrid of Thomas and my own characteristics. I was so taken aback by her birth that I asked the midwife, is she mine? after she was delivered. I couldn’t get over the fact that she was so pale and had blue eyes.

Doctors said that there was a one-in-a-million possibility that Mia was white and that it was possible that my family had a white gene that had been dormant until now. Since then, mom and daughter have been the subject of a barrage of questions and comments wherever they go. The authors read about white infants being born to black mothers previously, but the child retains the mother’s afro hair and facial traits, which Mia does not have.

Her hair is naturally longer and straighter than most. I’m getting a little tired of having to explain that she’s my daughter. Even doctors and instructors, on the other hand, appear perplexed.

For example, when I recently went to our doctor’s office, the doctor asked if I was Mia’s social worker or guardian, which I confirmed with her. I told him firmly that I was Mia’s mother, and he was visibly uncomfortable and apologized excessively. This happens all the time, I said.

When Mia entered school, she had to overcome a significant obstacle. When Mia came out of class and called out mom to me, I understood what these mothers who didn’t know me were thinking, that Mia needed to be taken in by a family. Because my mother, other daughter, Zoe, and I are all of a darker skin tone, the situation is even more evident when I go out with them.

However, Ms. Harris, who has chosen to speak up to raise awareness of the fact that mixed-race children can also be extremely white or very black, claims that she and Mia are like peas in a pod when it comes to their personalities. We are both extroverts who are self-sufficient and have a quirky sense of humor. And after others get to know us well, they notice that we have a lot in common.

Furthermore, she states that although she believes Mia is lovely, she is her mother’s opinion, adding, I am just so proud of her.

How the color of a baby’s skin is determined
Skin color is a powerful illustration of genetic influence because it is so variable. Skin pigmentation is defined by the amount of the pigment melanin contained in skin cells, and the amount of melanin found in each cell is predetermined by the genetic code of each cell.

There are an endless number of distinct skin colors, referred to as phenotypes, to choose from. These skin tones range from black, dark brown, brown, light brown, to white skin tones, among others. In other words, the more melanin expressed in each parent’s genes, the darker a person’s skin will be as a result of the accumulation of melanin over the course of their life.

Because of this, the color of a baby’s skin is usually determined by the quantity of melanin found in the parents’ skin. It is possible, though not common, for dark-skinned parents to give birth to a pale-skinned child, and vice versa. This is especially true if the parents’ or grandparents’ skin tone is paler or lighter than the parents’ skin tone.