People ask me all the time how can I say its 10% of the population who are womb twin survivors: its all because of this person, who wrote an article in 1990-
Charles Boklage and his article
Then he provided a chapter in my anthology Untwinned: perspectives on the death of a twin before birth
This was an extract from a chapter in a book "Multiple pregnancy" By Louis G. Keith
Boklage says that for every pair of twins born there are 10 sole survivors.
Twins make up about 1% of the population worldwide. So thats makes it 10% of the world population
- 600,000,000 in all.
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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