A black mum of two children born with albinism thought doctors 'gave her the wrong baby'.
Ashley Grigg, 36, gave birth to her fourth child, KD, now 15, on July 30, 2009, but was "shocked" when he was born with jet white hair, white skin and red eyes.
She says she thought that she was given the wrong baby and struggled to bond with her son.
A day after her son was born, Ashley was told that KD had albinism - a genetic condition that affects the production of melanin, the pigment that colours the skin, hair and eyes.
Four years later, Ashley gave birth to her daughter, TT, now 12, on October 24, 2012, and she was also born with albinism.
Ashley Grigg, 36, gave birth to her fourth child, KD, now 15, on July 30, 2009, but was "shocked" when he was born with jet white hair, white skin and red eyes.
She says she thought that she was given the wrong baby and struggled to bond with her son.
A day after her son was born, Ashley was told that KD had albinism - a genetic condition that affects the production of melanin, the pigment that colours the skin, hair and eyes.
Four years later, Ashley gave birth to her daughter, TT, now 12, on October 24, 2012, and she was also born with albinism.
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00:00I am a mom of two children with albinism if you didn't know now you know with two different types
00:06of OCA. This comment says thank you for helping others understand. No I want to thank you guys
00:14for letting me explain it all to you because when I had my son at 21 I did not know what albinism
00:22was and I'm not gonna lie I reacted in a way that maybe I felt like I shouldn't have
00:31but looking back I didn't know nor did I understand but now being 35 knowing what I know
00:38if I would have knew that back then I would have never responded the way I did but I did because
00:45I didn't understand or I didn't know I wasn't educating myself. When we did our documentary
00:51on Truly a lot of people came for me like it was negative and positive a lot of people came for me
00:56because they were like oh you really responded to your baby like that but then on the flip side of
01:01that people are like well at least she's being honest and not being fake and lying for the camera
01:06I was never gonna lie for the camera I was gonna be real and I already knew people were gonna come
01:12for me for the way that I responded but how am I supposed to respond when I'm only 21 years old
01:18and I have a child that comes out looking way different than me it's one thing if the child has
01:26like some abnormalities and it's a whole nother thing when your child comes out with a total
01:31different skin complexion as you maybe I need to stop watching Lifetime movies but that's all I
01:36could think about and I'm like okay babies can be swapped like this doesn't happen based off a true
01:43story is this happening to me kid's dad was a lot older than me he's 20 years older than me so
01:51he's been around for a long time so it was kind of odd that I didn't see like no type of like
01:58expression like shock like far as me they had gave me like medication and like keep me calm because
02:07I was very emotional it's just I just wasn't understanding if I was educated by my parents
02:14or my family then it wouldn't have been such a surprise but since I wasn't educated or informed
02:22it was a shock a literally a state of shock it took a minute to just kind of come to terms with
02:29like everything and when I came to terms with everything and it was like just KD and I already
02:35had um our first son it was pretty cool like the doctor said it would never happen again you know
02:42it was straight I eventually adapted but my sadness and hurt turned to anger and it caused me to be
02:50put in a lot of situations like you know and I had to really uh calm my temper down my temper was so
02:59bad that you know I could have been facing some serious time because I had a situation and I
03:06reacted off of emotions because people just wanted to keep talking about my baby and they just felt
03:11like you know they were just so comfortable to just say the things bluntly to my face and I wasn't
03:19gonna respond and I will respond every time somebody came for my child when I had TT it
03:26wasn't as bad because I already had a son that was born with albinism I wasn't angry but I was
03:34hurt because I knew the different things that my son went through and I didn't want my daughter to
03:40go through those things but it was a blessing because KD wasn't alone and then I had a girl
03:47so a boy with albinism and a girl with albinism perfect
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