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Now that I am done vacationing and planning parties I can get back to blogging .. There is only a few days left in October and as promised I will share some interesting facts/statistics/stories about Down syndrome.

Here are 10 United States Statistics borrowed from a few other sites …Remember that these are estimated numbers, there are no statistics that are 100% accurate because of abortion rates.

#1 ….1 /733 babies are born with Down syndrome

#2 …. 5, 000 babies are born every year with Down syndrome

#3 …. 9/10 women that are given a pre-natal diagnosis of Down syndrome chose to have an abortion! HOW SCARY IS THIS!!!

#4 …. It is believed that if there was no abortion at all, the incidence of having a child would be somewhere between 1/150 or 1/100, which is the same as having twins ... By no abortion it means, not only related to Down syndrome, but abortion in general

#5 … Most babies with Down syndrome are born to parents that were NOT given a pre-natal diagnosis

#6 … 80% of babies with Down syndrome are born to women under the age of 35

#7 … Currently there are more than 400,000 people living in the US with Down syndrome

#8 … More than 50% of all miscarriages are caused by a genetic abnormality … we will never know how many of them had downs

#9 … Once a woman has a baby with Down syndrome, her chances of having another child with Down syndrome is 1% … yes, only one percent - the same as having twins, unless it is Translocation Down syndrome

#10 … It was in 1959 that Jerome Lejeune, a French physician, identified Downs Syndrome as a chromosomal variance … Today, Down Syndrome is the most well researched genetic disorder.