Twins get to know each other in the womb - developing a sense of self?

I  found this article today:

Twins are social, even in the womb.

The fraternal womb twin survivor (4). dead relationships

Do you try, against all reason, to keep alive a relationship that has died?

This is how one journalist put it:

It is a cruel but unavoidable fact of life that dying relationships are not actual relationships any longer, not in the sense that they can be worked on, magicked or charmed back to life. As any spurned soul could have told him, once dead, relationships have a lot in common with jinxed wishing wells. It doesn't matter what you chuck into them - it can be your best stuff, all you've got, wrenched from the depths of your being - and still your wishes will never be answered. You will just keep throwing it all in and watching it disappear,  [more]

Where a sense of connection once breifly existed, now there is nothing but a Black Hole, where all your energy gets poured in and little or nothing comes back in the way of response or reciprocation.

It is as if they have become your Alpha and you have become their Beta -you are thye doormat upon which they wipe the dirt off their feet. There is even a book about this: The Doormat Syndrome ( this is a very familiar situation to DZ womb twin survivors. They become identified with their weaker Beta twin.

If you have ever given to the point of exhaustion, felt dumped on or ripped off, and puzzled to find yourself coming back for more; if you are involved with people who don’t appreciate you, if you equate love with doing for others, you may be experiencing The Doormat Syndrome. ( There is a book about this)

In the Dream of the womb, a responsive DZ ( dizygotic) twin has died and you are alone. That dream is re-enacted every time an intimate relationship ends.  In your grief and sense of loss is real sorrow, but also a real memory.

10 weeks! Twins reacting to each other in the womb!

At 65 days of gestation, twins can be observed interacting.   That's  9-10 weeks.

Beautiful coloured photo image link here  of 65 day foetus in the sac.

"Twin pregnancies provide us with the opportunity to observe first reactions towards touch in utero, and this study illustrates the onset and development of these contacts. Forty women with twin pregnancies volunteered to take part in this study.

Between 8 and 12 weeks' gestation, ultrasound examinations were performed transvaginally, and from 13 weeks onwards transabdominally, at weekly intervals. 

Primary contacts followed an action-reaction model, and usually lasted < 3 s. These contacts were initially slow and then became fast. 

The first reactions of the co-twin towards touch were observed at 65 postmenstrual days. Contacts of longer duration between both bodies including extremities, or contacts initiated by sucking movements towards the co-twin were defined as complex contacts and were observed from 85 and 92 post-menstrual days, respectively. 

Nearly all contacts occurred significantly earlier in monochorionic compared to dichorionic twins. Female/female pairs seemed to develop complex body contacts earlier than male/male pairs, but for the onset of other contacts we have not yet found significant differences between gender combinations."

Here is the article

Wonderful.  We knew, didn't we? I  knew that I could remember my twin, somewhere nearby twitching around. I certainly knew when he wasn't there any more.....

BUT this article was published FIFTEEN YEARS ago. Who talks about this? We should be shouting it to the world!

The time is NOW !!! If you are reading this, please spread the word......