Well, the film has reached the UK. I havent seen it yet and I'm not sure I will. I am very, very sad that the story of the preborn loss of a twin is given such a treatment. Mind you, its not so surprising that the director made such a travesty of the whole " vanishing twin" issue. There is no information out there, after all. This is why I will start, in a week or so, to write the story of this project.
I will begin with the whole issue of twinning and how it works, then the whole prebirth experience and how it impacts on the born child. Then we will consider the many and various ways in which a twin may "vanish". Of course twins dont vanish, they die and they die in all kinds of ways. and that wil be just the start: there will be the science behind the story, the results of the questionnaire that I have put on the website and which by the time the book is published will have reached 350 completed questionnaires, so that is a good number to analyse.
I hope for 120,000 words and 1000 references by the end of the year: that ought to do it.
All we need then is a publisher -- any offers?
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.
