In May of this year, when I began writing the book of the Womb Twin project, (Womb Twin survivors: the lost twin in the Dream of the Womb) I advertised for some stories that I could use to illustrate the points being made.
I have just sorted them out today, and I have more than 100 stories given to me with an agreement that I can use them and the writer will remain anonymous.
Thank you, thank you! You know who you are.
I get such wonderful support for this project in some ways. This is wonderful.
All I have to do is go on writing. I have just finished Chapter three, which details all the various ways that a twin may die close to birth or in the last trimester. Many womb twin survivors are born prematurely and have health problems as a result. It has been a difficult and very sad chapter to write.
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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