Mom of twins with Down syndrome shuts down critics
Between 1980 and 2018, the chance of having twins increased by 72%, but twins are still uncommon, occurring in about 33 out of every 1,000 births. Identical twins are even rarer, about 3 or 4 per 1,000 births.
Savannah Combs, 23, from Middleburg, Florida, was overjoyed to find out she was expecting twins. Shortly after, she learned an even rarer fact: both babies had Down syndrome. Identical twins with Down syndrome are estimated to occur in about one in two million births.
Savannah and her husband, Justin Ackerman, faced this news with courage. Their twin daughters, Kennadi Rue and Mckenli Ackerman, were born prematurely in May 2021 and…
