Well, I have just about emerged from a spate of activity, and have now delivered workshops in Dublin and St Albans, England. It has been an interesting journey but I do believe that at last I know enough about wombtwin survivors to deliver a soundly-based presentation, facilitate some useful workshop exercises and be able to anticipate and answer almost all the questions that arise.
As from next year, I will be charging a fee for my workshops and seminars, because I am reassured that I can deliver a professional service now. The presentation needs work, but with the fees I am earning from the workshops I should be able to afford to buy licences for the scientific images I need to be able to use them in public and also on leaflets and brochures. It should not matter so much, but somehow the idea that I now have a means of earning money from this project makes me feel as if it has in a way grown up. Its like the project and I have come of age, and we are both now more likely to be taken seriously.
I got back from Ireland a few days ago ( 55 people, lots of questions, laughter, fun, new friends - a wonderful time!) fully intending to take some time doing something completely different and ended up building two new websites! You see, the work of Wombtwin.com Ltd, the new non-profit organisation I set up in 2007, is now quite separate from what I am doing individually. That means that I ought to have my own personal website for my own work and the organisation should have a site of its own. So I have built them.
I have taken myself to my study upstairs and the two websites are now almost finished. The next note will be to say they are uploaded, like fraternal twins, suspended in cyberspace. They are both held for the moment on my own hosted space, but one day we will rent some space for the organisation website and then I will have cut the ties completely, let it all go and cut myself off, leaving Wombtwin.com Ltd to grow on its own. That feels very important to do.
It really does feel like growing up!
When a twin dies before birth, the sole survivor needs help and understanding. Womb twin survivors are the sole survivors of a twin or multiple pregnancy. This group, 1 in 10 of the population, includes survivors of a stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion and a "vanishing twin" pregnancy. It is a story of a twin bond broken by death, leaving a lonely survivor.
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