Its time now to help the very youngest womb twin survivors. What can we do for babies and preschool children? Now the new book is available for printing (have you ordered yours yet?) its time to develop and deliver the Womb Twin Kids project.
I have been in touch with Rara Schlitt, who is a gifted and sensitive children's book illustrator.
She has created for me 13 beautiful illustrations for the next Womb twin book, "Two little birds." This is an allegory of the loss of a twin, about two little birds who hatched out of the same egg and specially created for young children to read with their parents.
In May and June we will be holding some play therapy sessions for preschool womb twin survivors with their parents. If you live within reach of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, contact me and come and join in the fun.
If you have a child who is a womb twin survivor, please make a comment here about what has been difficult, what are the rewards, in fact, anything you want to say!
Together we can create some play materials and books to help young womb twin survivors come to terms with their loss and make it easier for parents to talk to them about it.
Looking forward to your comments, and thanks in advance for your help!
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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Friday, March 04, 2011
Sunday, December 26, 2010
The death of a twin at birth - a new play
Hallo I must be going
A new play for the New York fringe theatre
Hello, I Must Be Going begins with the sound of Groucho Marx singing the song of that title; the paradox of that lyric is at the heart of this drama by Albi Gorn, though not, in general, its fractured sense of humor. The play concerns Harvey, who when we first meet him is just a few days shy of his 50th birthday and also about to be a father, for the first time, of twins. But he's saddled with ambivalence because his father, Maury, has recently suffered a debilitating stroke that has left him unable to speak and paralyzed on his right side. And then very real tragedy strikes when one of the twins is stillborn. (The other, a healthy boy, is named Julius—Julie for short—in honor of Groucho, whose real name was Julius Marx.)
Gorn's play explores how happiness and sorrow co-mingle in the lives of Harvey and his wife, Emma, as they celebrate the birth of their son, mourn the loss of their little girl, and try to come to terms with Maury's fading health. The play is adventurous, in places: Maury is represented by two actors, one of whom speaks his thoughts and also portrays him as a younger man in a series of flashback scenes depicting Harvey's relationship with his Dad over the years. More interestingly, the unborn children are played by adult actors who speak their "thoughts" from inside the womb; and baby Julie also is seen to speak his own, very grown-up thoughts even as he "acts" like the tiny infant that he is.
For me, the most interesting idea raised by the play was how the death of a twin in the womb might affect the survivor: Gorn theorizes that Julie misses his sister rather severely, though he seems hopeful about Julie's ultimate ability to overcome this trauma. More here
You tube Interview with Albi Gorn
Is this another womb twin survivor, I wonder? His latest play is about forgiveness, that's a big issue for womb twin survivors........
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