Events for womb twin survivors in 2011....

I've been updating the Wombtwin.com Facebook page to include several events for next year.  

(All dates will include book signings where requested!)

• Lunches in Nottingham, Portsmouth and London with me and others.
• A workshop in New York City with me, Monica and Barbara
• A free public meeting with illustrated presentation by me November 18th
• Our annual conference 19/20 November
• The Wombtwin.com Annual general meeting for members and special guests.

Take a look here:

The third birthday of WombTwin.com 17th July

It's just three years since I founded WombTwin.com. It's time for a birthday celebration!

You are allowed to cheer, smile, applaud etc. or perhaps make your own comment on this amazing feat.

Here is the whole story, to download and enjoy and pass on to anyone who may be interested.

The new US womb twin blog

The US blog just took a giant leap forward! Take a look here.

This is what Sylvia had to say today: ( I couldn't have put it better myself!)

Acknowledgment of the plight of the wombtwin survivor is in great need - both in society and in wombtwin survivors themselves.

Awareness of this condition becomes a clear explanation to what didn't make sense before. It is also extremely disproportionate to the pain suffered by those who lost someone with whom they once shared a womb. They need not suffer alone just because society hasn't yet established proper recognition and understanding of this syndrome. Battling such a vague condition all alone is especially difficult when being alone is the problem to begin with!

We must be the salmon swimming upstream in a world of nonbeliever singletons.

Rather than also looking the other way to this growing house of mirrors, we must recognize and respond to an impending epidemic. An ever increasing occurrence of twins & multiples is due to artificial interventions (like in vitro) and natural egg splitting due to egg ripeness as women wait later in their lives to conceive.

Wombtwin survivors are all around us and they are playing out their dream of the womb everyday... Some know it and can't help themselves, some know it and are helping, but most survivors have no idea.

I do hope they get lots of hits and followers.  If you are in the USA and not following or commenting yet,  please visit the blog and get involved!

Someone said to me yesterday that this project was too much of "a one-woman band."  It certainly was to begin with, in April 2007 when I was all alone with my Unltd grant and a new company to create,  but today we have members all over the world and I have two new directors - since yesterday- and a growing list of voluteer helpers.

Apart from the fact that I can't possibly cater for the needs of the 600 million womb twin survivors  in the world all by myself,  I did once have a life. That seems a long time ago now.   I suppose if the company and the project can grow big enough to stand alone, one day I will be able to retire and write that novel about St Alban......

The womb twin websites

Ive been busy. I've got new web site building software (Freeway) and the templates were so nice that in two days I managed to upgrade my personal website. www.altheahayton.com

The womb twin web sites are not getting the attention that they could, so do take a look. There are two sites: one is mine and one belongs to wombtwin.com, the non-profit organisation I created in 2007. I have a professional working on one and I'll be upgrading the other very soon using another Freeway template.

www.wombtwinsurvivors.com has a load of articles stories and links to help anyone who is on a journey of self discovery to get all the information they need about how it feels to be a womb twin survivor.

www.wombtwin.com is all about helping womb twin survivors around the world to get in touch with one another, and how to get on board as a member or associate member.

Membership is £15 a year and is a great way to get involved and help us to help you. There are millions of womb twin survivors in the world and this is the only membership organisation that exists to help and support womb twin survivors.

The Wombtwin project comes of age

Well, I have just about emerged from a spate of activity, and have now delivered workshops in Dublin and St Albans, England. It has been an interesting journey but I do believe that at last I know enough about wombtwin survivors to deliver a soundly-based presentation, facilitate some useful workshop exercises and be able to anticipate and answer almost all the questions that arise.

As from next year, I will be charging a fee for my workshops and seminars, because I am reassured that I can deliver a professional service now. The presentation needs work, but with the fees I am earning from the workshops I should be able to afford to buy licences for the scientific images I need to be able to use them in public and also on leaflets and brochures. It should not matter so much, but somehow the idea that I now have a means of earning money from this project makes me feel as if it has in a way grown up. Its like the project and I have come of age, and we are both now more likely to be taken seriously.

I got back from Ireland a few days ago ( 55 people, lots of questions, laughter, fun, new friends - a wonderful time!) fully intending to take some time doing something completely different and ended up building two new websites! You see, the work of Wombtwin.com Ltd, the new non-profit organisation I set up in 2007, is now quite separate from what I am doing individually. That means that I ought to have my own personal website for my own work and the organisation should have a site of its own. So I have built them.

I have taken myself to my study upstairs and the two websites are now almost finished. The next note will be to say they are uploaded, like fraternal twins, suspended in cyberspace. They are both held for the moment on my own hosted space, but one day we will rent some space for the organisation website and then I will have cut the ties completely, let it all go and cut myself off, leaving Wombtwin.com Ltd to grow on its own. That feels very important to do.

It really does feel like growing up!