Post 54. Co-signing and being a guarantor are two different things. Every co-signer is a guarantor, but not every guarantor is a co-signer. If you pledge to repay a debt of another without the possibility of personal return, then you are the co-signer.
About 6,000 babies with Down syndrome are born in the United States every year, and the national population of people with DS is estimated to be 400,000. Babies with DS and typically developing infants are more alike than they are different.
Down syndrome is a relatively common birth defect, affecting about 1 in 800 to 1,000 births. The chances of having a baby with Down syndrome increase dramatically with the age of the mother. Children with Down syndrome are born with an extra (third) copy of chromosome number 21 in their cells.