In Gent for the Twin Research conference in 2007 Abigail Progrebin, an identical twin writing a book about being a twin, thrust a microphone under my nose and asked me about my work with womb twin survivors. I spoke, as is my wont, volubly and off the top of my head. When the book, One and the Same, was finally published, there was the interview, in its entirety, as a substantial part of chapter eight.
Asked about the book and this same interview in particular, Abigail said:
I always try to let people speak for themselves and let readers decide for themselves. With this in utero twin loss I felt like I would lay this out there. I’m not sure what I think and let’s see what others think. This was really new territory as there’s no science at all to support a hunch that if you started as a twin pregnancy and ended up as a singleton that it’s going to have some kind of psychological impact somewhere down the line. But there is, and thanks to Althea Hayton it’s much more organized now, this body of anecdotal testimony from people. There’s no way to quantify whether they’re affected by it. There are a number of people in my life that say, how can you trace this? At the same time, it’s this ineffable intimacy that you have with your twin. You can’t quite describe that closeness.
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Its always good to get a bit of support with this - thank you Abigail!
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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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