The new book- the place where it all started

Where does one begin a book about womb twin survivors?  It truly began in 2002, in a dramatherapy ritual workshop in London a few hours  after I had enacted a funeral ritual for my twin brother, who was probably lost about 13 weeks or so in a miscarriage, probably an abortion attempt. I knew then, that I had found my life's work - that I would write about womb twin survivors. Eight years later, I have the first book finished.
So, after six years of research, I started writing in 2009, and the book was, as it were, conceived.
Where to begin? Well, conception had to be the first story to tell.

PART ONE : the death of a twin before birth
(Each  of the five parts is introduced by a wonderful poem written by a womb twin survivor, but  you will have to wait for publication to see those.)

Chapter One: The making of you


(Here is some of what the first chapter says:)

Whoever you are reading this, when you were no more than a twinkle in your father’s eye, the making of you had already begun. You came into being as a separate, unique, brand-new little person at the moment of your conception. Now conception requires two tiny single-cell gametes to meet, one from Mum and one from Dad. Mum’s gamete is called an ovum - sometimes called a human egg - and Dad’s gamete is called a spermatozoon - usually known as a sperm.
Sexual reproduction - and this is after all what we are talking about - has been going for a very long time. Largely by a process of trial and error, this extremely complex and delicate process, operating at
a microscopic level, has been honed to a nicety over the generations. Your Mum and Dad played their biological part to perfection, as they negotiated themselves into position to enable conception to occur. It may have been carefully planned, impulsive, entirely inappropriate or even morally wrong, but once Dad’s sperm and Mum’s egg were in exactly the right position and in precisely the right environment, they made that impossible, crucial connection and merged. That created you. Whatever else you may say about yourself, you are a miracle. We all are.
As we will discover later on, all those years of evolution have not eliminated the hundreds of mishaps that prevent conception or the successful development of the embryo. Over time, intricate and elaborate means have been developed to ensure the survival of our species. Today, if conception and development simply won’t work, despite Mum’s and Dad’s best efforts, we now have artificial means to try and ensure that they can have a baby. They may be still uncertain, but the various artificial reproductive technologies - known as ART- have helped us to understand a little more of how we all came into being.

For full details and a bit more to read, see here.