{"id":713,"date":"2026-01-27T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:19:03","slug":"mom-of-twins-with-down-syndrome-shuts-down-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Mom of twins with Down syndrome shuts down critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"306\">Twin births are still rare, and identical twins even more so. When 23-year-old Savannah Combs learned she was expecting identical twins, she was overjoyed\u2014then found out both babies had Down syndrome, an extremely rare combination.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"313\" data-end=\"521\">Despite being advised to abort, Savannah chose to continue the pregnancy and give her daughters a chance. Kennadi Rue and Mckenli Ackerman were born prematurely on May 12, 2021, and spent weeks in the NICU.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"687\">Savannah shares their journey on TikTok, emphasizing that her daughters are loving, determined, and capable, even if they reach milestones at their own pace.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"694\" data-end=\"879\" data-is-last-node=\"\">When faced with cruel online comments, Savannah responded simply: <em data-start=\"760\" data-end=\"879\" data-is-last-node=\"\">\u201cGood thing they weren\u2019t born to you. God gave these babies to the right parents who would love them no matter what.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Twin births are still rare, and identical twins even more so. When 23-year-old Savannah Combs learned she was expecting identical twins, she was overjoyed\u2014then found <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=713\" title=\"Mom of twins with Down syndrome shuts down critics\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}