The message : (1) Womb twin blogs and bloggers

Here begins a short series of blogs about aspects of the Womb Twin message.  One part of the message is this:

There are millions of womb twin survivors in the world. Most of them are unaware that they are, and those who do know of their twin do not realise that the prenatal loss of their twin has had a profound psychological effect on them. 

One favourite way to get any message to the world is to blog it, which is why I made a resolution on January 1st of this year to make a post here every day of 2011.  After 5 weeks, the number of visitors to this blog had doubled and look ready to triple within the next two months! Thank you, every one of you.  You are very welcome here and I look forward to your comments.

This is not the only womb twin blog, but so far at least, there is just one Twitter account.

There is a blog in the USA which features stories of interest to people in that country.  Also blogs in other countries [ see the full list of blogs here]

Here is a quote from the US blog home page:

Awareness of this condition becomes a clear explanation to what didn't make sense before. The current state of little or no awareness, combined with massive disbelief, creates a situation that is 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!

The Womb Twin world blog has a large group of authors from countries throughout the world,  and posts in various languages.  If you are a womb twin survivor you can become an author on the world blog - we cant have too many authors for this!

Why have all these blogs?  It is a way to spread the world, get the message out. People like blogs because they are active and there is always something new to see , and it feels more "cutting edge" than a web site.


Blogging the message


Comments to this blog (and about this blog made elsewhere) seem to indicate that:

1 There is widespread scepticism about this among the 90% of the population who are NOT womb twin survivors.

2 Womb twin survivors find it affirming to read about themselves here and find something of their story in every blog post


How do you respond to this daily blog? Is this a good way to get the message out? Let me know either here or contact me via my web site, thank you.


Tomorrow we will explore some of the various womb twin web sites. Do you know of one? Please let me know if you find one.

Spreading the word about womb twin survivors

Gradually but inevitably,  news about womb twin survivors is spreading.   My womb twin survivor friend (and there  are dozens of them now, all great people)  has been doing some research and has put a note on his Face Book page. 

What does a foetus experience in the womb?

The popular view, even today, is that a foetus is 'nothing but a bunch of cells', 'a blob of jelly', 'just an extension of the mother's body' and that it has no thoughts, feelings or ability to sense, experience or interact with its surroundings.

Recent research, however, is beginning to reveal a very different picture. In the last 15-20 years, a lot of work has been done with single survivors of twin and multiple pregnancies. Much of the progress made has been a result of advances in ultrasound technology, which have enabled doctors to see with unprecedented clarity what is going on in the wombs of pregnant women.  read more.....

Then there is Sylvia, a writer, who has written a story about a womb twin survivor and her journey to  discovering more of herself and how the loss of her twin has impacted in her life.  There is a post on the worldwide Womb Twin blog about it.

It is not uncommon for people, seemingly ignorant of this ‘loss’ to develop fantasies about “being with someone else,” or needing to live their lives for two. Is it a personal memory of womb life or an intuition of an unexpressed part of their mother’s mind?   If told later in life about the loss, there are often feelings of relief at not being “crazy” but sometimes too, anger and distress at not being told all along. 

Sylvia Dickey Smith‘s novel. A WAR OF HER OWN makes an important contribution to womb-twin survivors by raising awareness of this phenomenon and educating others as to what can be its long-term possible emotional effects. read more

Not to mention the work of Alfred Austermann whose book " The surviving twin syndrome,"  translated from the original German, details the psychological effects upon the womb twin survivor and how they can be discovered and explained.


I could go on and mention prenatal psychotherapy and all the other therapies that workn on prebirth influences: I could list the many blogs that mention the "vanishing twin" syndrome.   There are several Womb Twin blogs now on this subject as the Internet does its work and people are at last beginning to talk about this thing that so many experts insist cannot possibly happen : that even when a twin is lost after just a few weeks of life in the womb, there is a profound and lifelong effect on the sole survivor.


There are more than 600,000,000 womb twin survivors in the world. I am one and perhaps you are another.  That's two of us.  Let's spread the world and find the others. I have found about 1000, but that's only a drop in the ocean. There is more work to be done and more womb twin survivors to be found. 


If you have posted on your blog or facebook about this, please let me know the link and I'll put it here.


Let's get together: - united, we will triumph over  the sceptics. They have absolutely no idea what we are talking about, but then 90% of the population don't understand this.  That doesnt mean we have to listen to them. We know, they don't. 


Back to the book: I will have Part One, "The Making of You" which is full of all the medical facts about conception and twinning plus diagrams,  ready today for the FINAL proof reading. The cover is now ready.

The final cover

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