Boy With 12 Fingers (and 13 Toes)

I was born in Jamaica with six fingers on each hand, I have not been bothered by them, but growing as a child it was difficult being taunt by others. no members of my immediate or extended family has it. I am now fifty two and have concerns of how and why they came about???

my 8 month old daughter was born with 12 fingers and 12 toes. her extra digits are non functioning and will be removed as early as the end of this month. if they did work that would be great. i would keep them.

i am a 29 year old African American female. I was born in Utah and I was also born with twelve fingers. I have an uncle on my dads side that was born wiht eleven fingers. Growing up I had a complex about the tiny bumps on the sides of my hands. A friend of mine thought they were warts and that really hurt my feelings. later I met a girl that also had 12 fingers her mother told us that people with six fingers on either hand would rule the next world. Even though I knew that wasn't true, it made me feel better about my extra digits. the older I get i have noticed that it is not all that uncommon Its just that people that are born this way dont feel the need to inform everyone else so we all probably meet people weekly that were born with 6 fingers or toes.

To Linda Davis,

My grandmother's family are Davis and they have toe abnormalities. Luckily, I think it has died out but she had a "double" great toe. It was quite wide and looked like 2 toes fused together on her right foot. I have found other Davis' with this same abnormality. Is any of your family from Tennessee? Im wondering if this is a Native American genetic trait myself and am looking for more Davis.

"There were polydactyl musicians in the days of Mozart and Handel, and those composers wrote pieces especially for them to play for piano and violin."

This comment was made here in 2005, but does anybody have a reference to back it up? Curious people on Wikipedia want to know.

Thanks!

It's odd.

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i had an extra finger on my left hand.im in 1st year high school now and they are always teasing me eleven fingers!and im just telling them your just jealous because im lucky your not!so thats why i have always a handkerchief to hide it this is just too difficult for me!! 😊:(:):(:((

I was born with extra toes. My father was born with extra fingers and toes.

I would bet its heriditary.

My older brother does not have extra fingers or toes. My younger sister doesn't either.

Maybe it skips a generation?

I was born with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, which were surgically removed when I was a baby. My two boys were "normal", but then my little girl was born and she had six fingers on one hand, seven on the other, and six toes on each foot. We had these removed because I wanted to save her any teasing as she got older. However, she still has six fingers on one hand because the two fingers are fused together and share one bone.

doctors may tell you its a birth defect to have extra fingers and toes but think about it doctors arnt always right it does in fact come from a parents blood line by my research and the fact i pay attention there are actually 2 reasons reason one! it could be the fact when you or your parent was preg. with you there is a chance that here body was trying to pruduce another child as well as the one born with the extras. now reason two DO NOT FREAK! look into it there is a town in the state of kentucky where every one has extra digits because the mother and father of the child is related bother sister first cousins 2nd cousins even relations where they could have been eachothers 16th cousin point is there is a relation between them but does NOT mean that you have extras because of your relations like this im still studying it so there may be another reason! but thats all i have right now what got me to research is because my best friendd has 12 fingers and 15 toes and she wanted to know!

Hi I'm writting because I have 12 fingers and 11 toes and my husband also has 12 fingers and my daughter as well. I love being different but there has been a pain goig down the side of my hand where it got removed and it kind of goes down til about my wrist. Is this normal? I have experianced a pain when I bump it but never just from nothing, and it only happens in one hand! If any one knows why please let me know.thank you.

Nisha - I totally understand that pain. I get it to whether I bump the scars on the sides of my hands. It is a kind of lightening tingling pain that shoots up your arm - kind of a like a funny bone kind of pain, right? You are not alone! 😊