This is a photo of my hand...
Looks pretty normal, right? Well, it did not when I was born. Just like my mother and my grandfather before me, I was born with 6 fingers on each hand. My fingers were the most developed out of all of ours, but they would never be fully functional. I had surgery to remove them when I was 8 months old. You can kind of see what the scar looks like in the photo below. The scars are about a half inch long and really are not that noticeable, but there is a nerve ending there so if I hit my hand on something it hurts really bad.
The reason I am showing you my deformity is that we have our ultrasound next week. Among all of the normal things one would look for, I will certainly have the technician count fingers. My doctor said they should be able to do that fairly easily. Either way I know the baby will be fine because I am, but I'm very interested to know!
Fun fact: Even though I was born with 12 fingers, I have since been used as a fit model for womens gloves. What are the odds of that happening?
-Kira
P.S. I'm planning on starting up a series of guest blogger mom's writing all about life with little ones. I was going to call it "Mama Says," but came across this today and decided I should change my name because well, it feels like I'm copying someone even though I had no idea she called her posts that. Any ideas on names for the series? And, e-mail me if you're interested in sharing!
-Kira
