When mums discuss their vanishing twins

Following a pregnancy forum is interesting: the issue of the vanishing twin is so common now that  Mums to be can reassure each other, but there is a great deal of anxiety about it.

On this forum, Baby and Bump, there are remarks such as:

Any one suffered from this?

I have had one case for definite and it caused all sorts of problems in my pregnancy.  It turns out this may be another twin loss and thinking about it I had this with my first daughter 12 years ago.  My midwife wants to do tests as she feel its something to do with the male gender.  I will be sterilised after this baby but still would like to know about it and how or why it happens.

I do have worries and my last pregnancy was awful and baby was small I believed it was to do with her being a twin and want to avoid all this again.

Any stories shared would be fab.  Have you suffered?  Did you have a normal pregnancy after?

When the twins came out of hiding  in the 1980s everyone was astonished about how often it happens. Now its almost routine, but the questions remain: will it harm my child and what can I do to keep my baby from harm?

The physical harm is inevitable, but rare. Its confined mostly to monochorionic monizygotic twins ( in English that means identical twins sharing a placenta.)  Fraternal twins do much better. 

As to any psychological problems, we are working on that ( see the last few posts on this blog and read the article on the womb twin survivors web site for more.