Wish I could find a more appropriate forum for this question, but since I can't, I'll post it here.

I have twelve toes, as do my two-year-old son and two-month-old daughter. All of our toes look normal; it's just that we have more of them than most people do. We also all have odd finger configurations, some of which have been surgically fixed and others of which will be in the future.

My wife is lobbying hard to get our daughter's feet "fixed," too (i.e., have one toe removed from each foot) at the same time that she has her extra finger removed, when she's a little less than a year old.

I'm proud of my twelve toes and show them to people every chance I get. I don't think having twelve toes is a problem, so it doesn't need to be fixed. But my wife is adamant. She's also Japanese, and we live in Japan, where the pressure not to be different from your peers is much greater than in the West. She thinks our daughter will be teased or maybe even bullied when she enters school because of her toes.

The specialist we've consulted says if our daughter's extra toes are to be removed, it should be done while she's still an infant, so I can't tell my wife that we should let our daughter make up her own mind when she's old enough to understand the situation.

So here's my question: I want to hear from anybody who was born with twelve toes. If you had two toes removed, do you wish you hadn't? If you still have twelve toes, do you wish you had had two removed when you were too young to know what was going on? Why or why not?

Thanks in advance for any responses.