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Baby Born With Three Arms

This kid is so cute! I hope doctors can help him and he can achieve a normal life. He seems to be too small to have surgery.

SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Doctors in Shanghai on Tuesday were considering surgery options for a 2-month-old boy born with an unusually well-formed third arm.

Neither of the boy's two left arms is fully functional and tests have so far been unable to determine which was more developed, said Dr. Chen Bochang, head of the orthopedics department at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.

"His case is quite peculiar. We have no record of any child with such a complete third arm," Chen said in a telephone interview. (Watch Jie-jie in his hospital cradle -- :47)

The boy, identified only as "Jie-jie," also was born with just one kidney and may have problems that could lead to curvature of the spine, local media reports said. Jie-jie cried when either of his left arms was touched, but smiled and responded normally to other stimuli, the reports said....

https://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/3...m.ap/index.html

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Yes, I remember reading about this story and seeing the pictures. It was indeed remarkable to see the baby with 3 fully developed arms. I hope they can successfully perform surgery and that he will be able to use 2 of the 3 arms normally.

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I saw this story briefly on CNN TV. The poor little guy seems to be in pain, if he cries whenever either of his left arms are touched. It would be hard to cuddle him in this situation. Since both left arms are so well developed, with both having a shoulder (or so it appears), I imaging the surgery to be a very difficult one.

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I suspect that doctors will wait until he is older to determine which arm to keep and which to remove. Since neither is fully functional, I'm sure he will need extensive physical therapy to be able to fully use his arm.

He is a very cute child. I hope that the doctors will be able to do something for him so that he can live a normal life eventually. With modern medicine today, I doubt that this will be a problem.

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I see no problem with jie-jie keeping all of his arms eventually it will be an everyday occurence. It's almost that way already.

Baby Born With Three Arms

Why do you believe this glyphfury? Are you making a statement about mutation becoming a norm, or is there some other backing to it?

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I couldn't imagine why they would just leave the arm. Obviously something needs to be done if the child is in pain when his arms are touched. I would expect them to wait until he was a bit older to see if any changes occurred in the function of his arms. I do agree though that he is very cute child.