An Australian radio programme, broadcast in August but which I found today, includes a study of hundreds of thousands of pregnant women, tracing the events in pregnancy as related to health risks later.
The issues covered in this programme include obesity and how that is related to your mother's pregnancy, particularly in the early months.
Most importantly, the risk of birth defects in a single baby from an IVF cycle was found to be higher. Womb twin survivors are three times more likely to have birth defects than
babies who never had a twin. It is interesting that this is the last
thing that advocates of multi-fetal pregnancy will mention, of course,
let alone the psychological effects on the sole survivor, which we know
so well......
Listen now
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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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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