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 condition that babies are born with and is caused by a chromosome disorder called trisomy 21. This means that the baby has three copies of chromosome 21 rather than the normal two copies. The chances of having a baby with this condition increase with the age of the mother.