Blighted ova, blighted lives?

A blighted ovum- where biology meets belief?

Your wombtwin may have been a “blighted ovum.” Some embryos don’t get past the first few days of cell division because the chromosomes in the egg are flawed. This blastocyst is ”blighted” and will never develop past the earliest stages. There is a little placenta but does not grow or function. There is a sac, but the embryo, such as it is, does not develop much beyond the very earliest stages. This embryo is doomed to die at the start, and all that remains is the sac, placenta and cord.

This is the classic “vanishing twin” scenario. The first scan shows two sacs, the second only one. The first is no longer visible. We do not know what happens to blighted ova, but it is probable that the empty sac that is often seen attached to the placenta at birth is all that remains. Apart from a very brief life, this was an inert, empty and lifeless presence, always alongside. At birth you were separated forever.

Yet were you? By the time you were born you were bonded to this tiny but doomed little being. Is it possible that all your life you have held back, believing that your life must also be blighted by an inability to come fully alive?

If you are a loser, dogged by misfortune, the perpetual victim, could this be the self defeating pre-birth impression you carry?

This is only a fetal assumption, made in the real belief that this little person, who never managed to implant properly and develop into a born child, once had something to do with you. Wrong! It's another little person entirely - your long lost twin sister or brother, in fact.

Time to recognise that the blighted life of your wombtwin does not mean you have to live a blighted life yourself. You are the survivor - life is yours for the taking , if you can only forgive yourself for the sin of being alive at all. A full, rich life is your inheritance - time to claim it. Do it now, and let me know how that feels!