Baby has 12 fingers, 12 toes

[Nutty_ZA]

New York - Something was different about newborn Jeshuah Fuller, but his proud parents couldn't quite put their finger on it.

Then his doctors, always on their toes, figured it out: Jeshuah was born with a few extra digits - six fingers on each hand, six toes on each foot.

Jeshuah, born in Brooklyn on Tuesday, is healthy and weighs just over three kilos. His rare condition, called polydactylism, is usually genetic. His dad was born with an extra finger on his left hand.

Jeshuah's mom, Quana Morris, said she had an ultrasound image taken during her pregnancy and knew he would have extra fingers.

"We were counting them on the sonogram," she told the Daily News.
The extra toes, though, were a surprise.

Jeshuah is getting a hand from his doctors to deal with the bonus digits, which are outside the pinkies and little toes and serve no purpose.
He'll have them surgically removed in a couple of weeks, his mom said.


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Well that's quite Handy... could help him get a foot in the door when applying for a job...

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Nutty_ZA

Well that's quite Handy... could help him get a foot in the door when applying for a job...

It could be handy

Mike...

[InLove]

Hate to be the one to take the fun out of this story but I see this from a different point of view.

Could these extra fingers and toes be a product of evolution? Concidering how much humans have come to depend on them since coming down from the trees and walking upright it could be. Evolution is a slow process so small stumps that are of no use could only be the begining. Even now Humans still have a stump of a tail, the coxex (could be spelt wrong).

I should lighten up this is what happens to me when lack of sleep kicks in. I must have been so annoying in college coz I was a insomniac