Baby Born in India Said to be Incarnation of Hindu Goddess Dholagarh Devi,

It's very easy to treat this genetic defect, which occurs in 1/1,000 births.

If your child has an extra finger on their hand, they might only need what’s called a surgical ligature. Your provider will tie a tight string or band around the base of the extra finger that cuts off its blood supply. A week or two later, the extra finger will fall off.

This process won’t hurt your baby or endanger blood flow to their other fingers or the rest of their body. Your provider will give you specific instructions to protect your baby’s hand during and after this process.

Surgical ligature is usually only used if your baby’s extra finger doesn’t have any bones or other connective tissues developed in it.

It's easy to remove the extra digits on the hand surgicially.

Your provider might remove your baby’s extra digit during an office visit. This is called an in-office excision. Your provider will numb the skin around your child’s extra digit with an injection. Then they’ll use a cautery device to remove the extra finger or toe. This technique uses a handheld device (probe) similar to a pen. An electric current heats the tip. This lets your provider seal off the skin around the extra digit while they’re removing it.

Your baby won’t feel anything while the extra digit is removed. The numbing injection might make them slightly uncomfortable, but they won’t feel any pain during the excision.

In-office excision is only an option if the extra digit isn’t connected to the rest of your baby’s hand or foot by bones.

In the some cases, treatment may be postponed until one year of age.

If your baby’s polydactyly is on their feet — or if they’re not a good candidate for surgical ligature or in-office excision — they’ll need their extra digit surgically removed.

What type of surgery your child will need depends on which type of polydactyly they have and how developed the extra digit is.

Your provider might not recommend surgery to remove an extra digit until your baby is around a year old. They’ll explain which type of surgery your child will need and what to expect.

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You can't help but feel bad for the poor child, being forced to live with a condition that is so easily resolved.

Perhaps we are behind socially...
Ponder it, The Kid is not a weirdo...

Yeah if other people were nice about it, I'd love having an extra finger on both hands.
IDK about several extra, but one more could be pretty useful.

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a reply to: FlyersFan

More likely to indicate a portend. In Life of Apollonius, there's a story about an infant born with three heads. Incidentally, there was such an Indian infant born on July 11, 2019.

originally posted by: Hateseveryone
incest baby

i blame it on the GM (gentic modified) Corn...

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yeah, its like all these girls growing up watching disney movies,
where they are teens, disobey the parents, run off with their handsome prince and live happy ever after..

but in reality.......

fall for the first a-hole that pays attention to them, get knocked up, fight all the time, and stuck at home ddoing dishes with 3 screaming children, while the father is back at the dance club

and the girls find out that,, surprise...... MAN HAS FLAWS, no mans perfect
they are disappiointed by every man after that, ruining them forever

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She could be a piano playing prodigy.

a reply to: Dutchowl

Actually possible if they are fully formed digits with nerves, joint's and musculature as so much of our brain is built around our hands and more digits may also be accompanied by more acuity if that is the case but sadly this kid will never get that chance.

Most with this condition however have unformed partial extra digit's but not all, sometimes they are perfect but routinely in the west doctors remove them, it is more common than many people think and some do not even know that they themselves once had extra digits in the west in places like the UK.

They don't call it amputation or removal but surgical correction.
www.gosh.nhs.uk...

This diagram from the US is of the more common unformed extra digit type but sometimes the full structure right up to the metacarpals is present and the extra digit is fully formed.
www.childrenshospital.org...

As in this one though sometimes they share joints which can cause problems for the child so removal is the best option even in those cases.
www.nationwidechildrens.org...

In most cases they are unformed and can cause problems when the child grows up but just sometimes and in some instances like that village in Spain that was famous for it back in the 70's they were fully formed digits.

But if you think about it, it is merely human variation just like everyone has different shaped feet, like mine the Greek foot or people with the Roman or Celt foot shapes etc so I don't see it as a deformity as long as the digit is fully formed and they can use it, in that case yes they could perhaps if they have the talent make great pianists.

It's not just humans, the Scottish wildcat an endangered species over here in the UK has six claws on each foot, it's endangered originally through hunting but that has long since been banned but mainly through cross breeding with domesticated cats as it is a closely related species.
Habitat loss has also decimated there numbers, though cute and looking pretty much like a housecat they are not domesticable, due to cross breeding the natural polydactylism among them may no longer be a common trait but it once was but it is a trait that can also appear in domesticated variety's as well.

# beat me to it..... a reply to: Hecate666

a reply to: FlyersFan

Our U.S. Vice President's middle name is "Devi".

Kamala Devi Harris could be connected to Goddesses?