{"id":256156,"date":"2021-10-30T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=256156"},"modified":"2021-10-28T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:12:00","slug":"mom-gives-birth-rare-twins-syndrome-theyve-little-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-gives-birth-rare-twins-syndrome-theyve-little-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom gives birth to rare twins with Down syndrome: ‘They’ve been my little gems’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A mom who gave birth to identical twin girls with Down syndrome is taking the world by storm. Savannah Combs, mom to Kennadi Rue and Mckenli Ackerman, posts about her girls on TikTok, where she has nearly 25,000 followers<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and one video gaining over 1.5 million views<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Combs, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida, spoke to News4Jax<\/a> about life with her twins, who were born six weeks premature and had to spend four weeks in the NICU. “It\u2019s very rare what they have, but they\u2019ve been my little gems,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re called mono-di twins, meaning that they had their own sacs, but they shared the same placenta, meaning that they were going to be identical. Mo di twins as it is, it\u2019s like very rare. And then you throw Down syndrome on top of it, it\u2019s like one in 2 million.\u201d<\/p>\n