I know! Beautiful little guy. Too bad his two left arms don't fully function. I don't want them to do the surgery.

The time is now for tri-armed hominids!

Motie

Yeah, it's a shame they aren't fully functional - and that the docs are having a hard time figuring out which one to keep...

There's been quite a few times when I wished I had an extra arm!

I say they should just let the kid keep 'em. Maybe he'll learn to use all three, and revolutionize the one-man-band industry.

it doesn't look like the neat-o third arm actually moves, though. At least it never did in the CNN snippet they showed of beautiful NextGen Jie-Jie Baby in his crib.

I say keep it even if it doesn't move, and maybe he can one day have a child of his own with one that does.

and he has kidney and other problems too--it's sad...

he's adorable.

Why can't God or Whoever bring us a healthy mutant baby?????

But then it's take over the world and produce oodles and oodles of progeny.

I for one welcome...

Not to be gross or depressing, but there's most likely a sizeable unseparated twin inside this baby, whose left arm is one of those we can see on the outside. Depending on how integrated the twins still are (blood vessels, nerves, etc) the shadow twin will either survive or not- if it does not, this little fellow doesn't stand a chance.

If you look at him picturing one baby inside another, you can tell which arm is his and which is the twin's. That doesn't determine which arm the docs should try to keep... it all depends on who grew the most nerves and blood vessels and so on into their arm, and whether that arm can be connected to the external baby's brain and circulatory system.
Then, like I said, the internal twin has to stay alive if there's any hope for the external one to survive.