Finished!

In September last year I started to write the Book of the Womb Twin project.  Yesterday  I wrote the final words of the last paragraph of the last chapter and that was that.  I have  been enormously helped by a wonderful team of mentors, who have kept me on track and helped me more than I can say over the many weeks and months.

It's only the first draft, but now I can see the size  of the work - 170,000 words in about 400 pages as a paperback looking like this:

To be published as a WombTwin Book by Wren Publications on January 4th 2011.

The chapters will be:


Foreword by an expert on prenatal psychology, TBA
Introduction
PART ONE : THE DEATH OF A TWIN BEFORE OR AROUND BIRTH
1  The making of you
2   Now twins are made
3   When a twin dies close to birth
4   The death of a twin in the second trimester
5   The death of a twin in the first trimester
6  Twins united
7   Womb companions
PART TWO:  SOLVING THE CASE OF THE VANISHING TWIN
8  The background: a short history of twin research
9  Vanishing twins revealed
10  Indications of a "vanishing twin" pregnancy
11  Could YOU be a womb twin survivor?
PART THREE :  THE GREIF OF A LONE TWIN
12  The grief of a lone twin
13   A womb twin remembered?
14   My child is a womb twin survivor
15   A womb twin discovered
16   The lost twin in the Dream of the Womb
PART FOUR :  BEING A WOMB TWIN SURVIVOR
17   The Womb Twin Research Project
18    An unusual person
19    Signs of psychological distress
20    Floating feelings
21    Relationship problems
22    Self sabotage
23    Self-defeating behaviour
24    A fragile sense of self
PART FIVE:  HEALING
25    On being a twin
26   Tools for healing
27  The Black Hole
28   Forgiveness
29   Letting go
30   Alpha energy
Epilogue - The healer

APPENDICES
AppA    Signs and indications of a twin or multiple pregnancy
AppB    The analysis of the WombTwin Project research results
AppC    Triplet pregnancies - when only one or two survive
(Also glossary, bibliography, references)

Advance copies may be ordered now from Wren Publications at a special pre-publication price. 

Now it's time to polish it all up and create a second draft!