Mom of rare twins with Down syndrome shows how beautiful they are in spite of critics
Even though the chances of having twins have gone up by 72% from 1980 to 2018, twin pregnancies are still pretty rare. On average, twins are born in about 33 out of every 1,000 births.
How likely is it to have identical twins? On average, in a group of 1,000 babies born, about three to four of them will be identical twins. So, itβs not something that happens very often.
Savannah Combs, who is 23 years old, was super excited to find out she was going to have twins. However, she later learned that both of them have Down syndrome, which is pretty rare.
Naturally, the news was really hard to take. Savannah and her husband, Justin Ackerman, knew that because of her sickness and the situation with their kids, some people might look down on them