Savannah Combs, a first-time mother from Florida, was overjoyed in 2021 when she discovered she was pregnant with twins.
Doctors later informed her and her husband that they would become parents to identical twins with Down Syndrome. The parents were both astonished and distraught, and they were immediately concerned for their children.
Savannah cried thinking about all the people who would judge them and their baby because of their situation. But she eventually accepted the news and realized that her children would be so special and uncommon that the chances of getting identical twins are 3 or 4 in 1000.
“It’s very rare what they have, but they’ve been my little gems,” she explained to News4JAX. “They were called mono di twins because they had their own sacs but shared the same placenta, implying that they would be identical.”
“Mo di twins as it is, it’s like very rare. And then you throw Down syndrome on top of it, it’s like one in 2 million,” she added.
Kennadi Rue and Mckenli Ackerman will be welcomed into the world by the 23-year-old mother from Middleburg, Florida, in May 2021. The girls are now two years old, and their parents have been documenting their experience on TikTok since their birth – their account has over 264K followers, and viewers like their day-to-day updates.
“They have feelings. They have a beating heart. They know how to talk. They know how to do things you do. They will get there. Like I said, it may be a step behind but they’re going to do it. I’ve learned these kids are feisty little things and happy little things,” Justin told the news outlet.
.The adoring parents broadcast various films about their children on a regular basis in order to inform other parents that, despite their unique illness, such newborns may live normal lives.
“They’re just like us. I’m not going to treat them any differently because they have Down syndrome,” said Combs.
Savannah said in one of her TikTok videos that during her pregnancy, she was encouraged to terminate the infants because doctors felt they wouldn’t live. She, on the other hand, rejected and opted to take the chance. The girls were born five months early, five months before their due date.
”Every [prenatal] appointment they were alive was a blessing to me,” said Savannah.
Kennadi and Mckenli spent a few weeks in the NICU after their birth before doctors permitted them to go home.
“I’m going to let them know that they’re just like us, and they’re going to get there as long as they put their minds to it,” Savannah said in her video.
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One lady responded to one of Savannah’s social media posts by saying that if she were in her position, she would give up the babies and place them for adoption.
”I wouldn’t want those babies; if mine came out like that, they would be straight up for adoption,” the commenter said.
However, the proud mother had the right response for the individual.
“I said, good thing they weren’t born to you and were born to me. God knew what he was doing by giving these babies to the right parents who would love them regardless,” she wrote on her Facebook.
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