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.
That is, less than one in 1,000 pregnancies for mothers less than 30 years of age results in a baby with Down syndrome. For mothers who are 44 years of age, about 1 in 35 pregnancies results in a baby with Down syndrome.