Lynda Haddon is doing great work with the parents of multiples in Canada. see her blog here. She has a discussion board for parents and she is not afraid to bring up the possibility that the loss of their twin or multiple can have an effect on the surviving twin or multiple. What a different story from the twins and multiple births association here in Britain - When I told them of my work they didn't want to know - they said:" If our pregnant women heard about this, they would freak out!" and that was the end of that discussion. However that was five years ago now, the idea is much more current and the vanishing twin is seen more and more on the ultrasound screens. Maybe I should approach them again and see if their attitude has changed. After all, my new initiative, just starting, is to reach out to the parents of young womb twin survivors.
Any readers of this blog who live in Canada may wish to make contact with Lynda. Also we have a page on the wombtwin.com website for womb twin survivors around the world and the Canada page is not taken up yet. Anyone intersted in being the contact person for Canada, and maybe also be editor of that page? If you are interested, contact me.
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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