So we held our first launch meeting last night, but there were more of us than them : in fact there were none of them! We set out the room with a big display, using teddies for twin babies:
Here are identical (monozygotic) twin girls:
and here is one lonely identical (monozygotic) womb twin survivor:
Still, we have made a start. There are now four books planned for children of various ages and we have learned a lot about why parents prefer not to tell their own womb twin survivor about their lost twin.
The WOMB TWIN KIDS web site is almost complete, [pay us a visit now] and so the project is now launched. There is a lot of work to do but we have to start somewhere.
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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Tributes to Althea Hayton
Althea Hayton, founder of Womb Twin, passed away peacefully on August 13 (sorry for the delay in posting this news on the blog). We are all ...
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