NEWS: Child Born with 8 Limbs Saved by Surgery (and Brilliant, Awesome Parents)

i in 200,000 live births,...what does the term 'live' birth mean?..does it happen more frequently in pre-recorded births?

Babies that are born alive. As opposed to stillbirths, where the baby is not born alive.

That really does have to be the cutest damn octopodal baby I've ever seen.

Good for Dr Patil, Lakshmi and her parents! Great story!

That kid's gonna have one awesome story to tell.

"My sister? Yeah, I totally absorbed her organs. "

Eerie, yet still heart-warming. What a great way to start a Sunday.

Good news for a change. Awesome.

You probably don't need me to tell you, but...

...you're awesome.

I think this story is so fucking amazing... between the beautiful and refreshing display of human compassion as well as the "happy ending".

Good news like this is so hard to come by and while I do consider myself someone with a sense of humor, some of these jokes on this thread are messed up.

God forbid we have good news that's actually taken seriously on this site... it seems like too many people around here feel much more at home with critisizing or making fun of other people, rather than simply feeling happy for someone else's good fortune.

Spider Kid,
Spider Kid,
Does whatever a Spider Kid does.

hahaha <3

love this

Trekkies and Simpsons fans have a lot in common...

same here... but cool, it's not as bad as I imagined... I really hope she recovers fully too

impressive and weird

Aw she is adorable. I love her mom.

Triple post, dammit.

Second post in my triple post error.

I like both, actually.

wow, shes a indian goddess.

in todays age, it is entirely possible to be an incarnation of Vishnu and the beloved child of Sri Mata Kali, and still have your unborn sister's grotesque and useless appendages surgically removed. I am going to watch this child's growth with the great curiousity and wonder. I'm sure that we can expect great things from her.