A guarantor is someone who agrees to sign an agreement (most typically a rental agreement) and basically guarantees that if for some reason the tenant cannot pay, the gu â¦ arantor will make the payments.
The child was born healthy because the woman with spina bifida took folic acid before pregnancy. WASHINGTON â About 8 million children worldwide are born every year with serious birth defects, many of them dying before age 5 in a toll largely hidden from view, the March of Dimes says.
1 Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects. Nearly one of every 100 babies is born with a CHD. 2  Each year approximately 40,000 babies are born in the United States with a congenital heart defect.  Approximately two to three million individuals are thought to be living in the United States with CHDs.