This blog is for Womb Twin Survivors based in the USA. Womb Twin Survivors started life as a twin/multiple in the womb but their twin/multiple died during pregnancy or near birth. If you live in the USA and are a Womb Twin Survivor (or think you are) then this is the blog for you.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Interview with a Super-Alpha Identical Womb Twin who makes the most of her Survival!
This fascinating interview features a rare example of when a womb twin happily accepts her individuality and lives life to the fullest all while still exhibiting many womb twin survivor behavioral tendencies. This accomplished Professor/Author acknowledges that her Teratoma, removed decades ago, was probably a twin but doesn’t feel the loss or seem to have any of the usual negative affects of being the sole survivor.
We met several years ago because I helped to provide this author with ad campaigns to feature in her advertising books – interestingly, all the campaigns we chose featured “babies.” We got along so well we decided to meet, then became personal friends bonding in a twinlike way. She told me in her 20’s she had a teratoma cyst removed and that’s when I knew she was probably a womb twin survivor and why we felt so connected to each other. She acknowledges the possibility but doesn’t concern herself with anything other than being an alpha individual.
Do you have any prebirth memories?
No – I just have pre-life memories (describes past lives as a male musician in the courts from the 1700’s, a French Revolution soldier who was bayoneted in the back, and a female peasant food server speaking a Slavic language she didn’t understand). She has many vivid memories of other lives but no memories from the womb.
Can you tell us about your birth experience?
I was born 7 lbs and went full term but I was very sick. I had Rh factor so I had jaundice when I was born and was in the hospital for 3-4 months and needed 11 transfusions to the center of my brain and I know they pricked the heel of my foot to test my blood so I’m very sensitive about my head and feet. My father’s 11 friends gave blood for my transfusions and it took a long time for me to get better. I couldn’t digest my food so I was hung vertically from my crib to keep the food down for 2 years. I took 8 bottles as an infant so the doctor noticed I wasn’t getting enough nutrients and formulated a thick oatmeal-like formula, they had to cut the nipples of the bottles so that I could drink the thick mixture. When I got this formula, I was satisfied with one bottle like a normal baby.
I didn’t speak or walk until I was 2 yrs old, I never muttered baby sounds, I just started speaking in full sentences. Until then they thought I was retarded. So it was a hard birth and then when I was eight yrs old I became very sick. I had tonsillitis, appendicitis and osteomilitis and I was in the hospital for about 4 months with a bone infection in my right index finger. I was so sick they said if I spike a fever they would have to amputate my hand. I did have a fever but had been running around playing. They put me in a special bed that had a cross over it for the sickest kids, all summer I was in a room with no air conditioning and remained in the hospital longer than the other kids except for a girl who had rheumatic fever and eventually died. When I arrived at the hospital they didn’t have a bed for me so I had to stay in the maternity ward for 3 days and a lady next to me lost her baby, it was born dead. I talked to her a lot and could feel her pain.
Do you have any residual trauma from this experience?
I don’t like anyone touching my head or my feet. It was hard for me to get my hair done because I was afraid they were going to hurt me and I couldn’t get pedicures but now I’m better.
Do you feel your hospitalization interfered with your attachment bonding?
I know that there were very mean nurses at the hospital during my hospitalizations. When I was eight I was tortured by a nurse who would steal my quarters (which were needed to watch TV) and she would make the needles hurt so that I’d remember never to tell on her, when I got home my entire rear-end was black & blue from this. So I learned that people could be really mean and that it pays to pick your battles. I learned how to survive, it was rough.
Tell us more about the pregnancy?
My mother gained 60 lbs. and they heard 2 heartbeats during the entire pregnancy so they thought there were twins but when it was time forbirth, I was the only one there.
Then when I was in my 20’s I had an ovarian cyst that was ateratoma removed and they said it can have teeth & nail matter in it but itwas never confirmed in my case. I guess they didn’t want to freak me out.
Did you feel different emotionally after you had the cyst removed?
No, I just felt better physically. I had terrible pain in my stomach because the cyst was the size of a grapefruit.
What were your symptoms leading up to the removal of the cyst?
I had terrible stomach aches, not like menstrual cramps but just real pain and it wouldn’t go away.
When they opened me the cyst was much bigger than they thought. I died on the operating table. They had to do a full resuscitation, they ran a tube down my throat and punched me in the chest and I remember the doctor waking me up by screaming my name. The tube scraped the inside of my throat andit took a long time to get better.
Do you have any memories of going somewhere and coming back?
No, I just remember my father was trying to see me before the surgery and he got a speeding ticket, he told the cop he had to see me because something was going to happen. We were always connected.
Did you ever feel like you had a twin?
No, but I know I don’t like to share anything. I don’t like to share the spotlight, I don’t like to share my birthday. I was supposed to be born July 4 but I don’t like all the racket (of Independence Dayfireworks) so why would I want to share my arrival with someone else? I didn’t want to share it so I was born on July 8. I don’t share well, I never did.
Did you ever feel like something was missing in your life?
No, never felt like anything was missing. No person or anything like that. I had such a hard time being here that I was always worried about my own survival. I had a long history with life & death, I had arthritis at age 12, I felt the barometric pressure change and always knew when it would rain. I could feel it in my bones, they thought it was rheumatoid arthritis but it wasn’t. As I got older I stopped getting the weather reports in my body and I miss that now, now I have to rely on instinct.
So where do you think your psychicness and hypersensitivity come from?
I don’t know but I know as a kid I always knew who was going to die in the family. I would dream of them and know they were going to die. The first one was my grandfather, when I was 16 I knew he was going to die and now when I pass people in the street I know when they aren’t well and are going to die. I can look at someone and know they are leaving. They don’t look like we do, their skin tone is grey and their eyes are different and they look like they are leaving, like they are between here and there. Once I ran into a couple I knew for many years, I knew she had cancer and her husband said she was better and looked great but I thought “she’ll be dead in 3 months” and she did die, she was only in her 30’s. Once I had a student in my class and I asked her why she was there and if her mother saw her before she left for school. She said yes, her mother saw her. I asked “she didn’t notice anything? Do you need me to take you to the hospital?” She refused but got herself there and the doctor took her before gunshot victims and people having heart attacks, saying she only had 1 hour to live. She was 20 years old having a stroke. The doctor told her whoever sent you here saved your life. To me it was obvious. People who are sick don’t look like regular people. My husband’s mother was sick for years and I kept urging her to go to the doctor, when she went they found nothing but later it turned out she had lung cancer for years but they never found it. She died 3 days later.
I have this “knowing” – once my parents were going on a cruise but I told them not to go because they were going to get stuck. They cancelled their trip then found out the ship got stuck on a sandbar for 10 days in the ocean. I knew they weren’t going to drown, they just weren’t going to go anywhere. I saw it. To me this stuff is normal, it’s just how I am.
My husband hired someone for his medical practice, when I met her I saw the word “THIEF” in capital letters branded on her forehead. I told him not to trust her because she is a thief. A few months later they arrested her in his office for stealing credit card numbers from his patients.
I also can sense a bad feeling about murderers and places where death has occurred. I feel dark energy.
Have you always felt different from most people?
Yes, I wonder why they don’t get stuff but I realize it’s not obvious to everybody.
Do you feel lonely in that misunderstanding?
No, I feel richer especially when I have something positive to tell someone about their life.
How does it make you feel when I say womb twin survivors have psychic abilities, that their twin wiring goes out into the world to pick up information and connect the dots?
Here’s how I feel, it’s not about that. We’re all electrical, we’re all receivers and transmitters. Some of us are better at it than others. People who are nonjudgmental and open to ideas get more because they open up the signal. We all can receive and transmit, everybody can, we’re all connected. The biggest hurts are in those that can’t speak for themselves, the animals and children. For this reason, I have done work with orphanages and I feel more for those who don’t have family than feelings for atwin.
Womb twin survivors are into rescue because of abandonment issues…
I’m into animal rescue. I got into it because of my father, I’ve spent my whole life rescuing animals that have been abandoned or abused. It’s like I’m trying to make it right. You can’t make somebody else’s wrong right but I think that’s where my sense of rescue comes in, not so much out of being a twin but out of environment. I think about how disorienting it would be to be dumped in the woods and not know where you are. It’s more about feeling discounted, as if that being’s feelings don’t count and they were not consulted. They must just follow the rules but the rules are wrong.
When you refer to your “twinness” does that mean you acknowledge that you were a twin?
Well, they said that I was part of a twin. I can’t deny that because they heard 2 heartbeats. I didn’t feel the absence but my mother gained 60 lbs. The joke was they said I ate her. I don’t remember eating anybody but I don’t like to share. So maybe I was selfish enough to say “It’s my birth, not yours” I don’t know. I had a sister who begged for a sister before I was born.
Are there any known twins or multiples in your family?
Not that I know of. But my husband had a twin somewhere in his family.
So what if he’s a womb twin survivor and you are too?
He wasn’t a twin.
But he could’ve lost someone early who was undetected and that could be your connection.
He wasn’t a twin, only one was born.
But they may not have known…
Well they heard 2 heartbeats for me so they would’ve known.
Not necessarily, for instance, I was born with a live twin and they only heard 1 heartbeat during my mother’s pregnancy. Many twins hearts beat identically so only one is heard when there are two beating simultaneously.
I know you are into synchronicities and matching two bits of information, but have you ever felt an affinity towards twins?
I don’t think I’ve ever had a draw towards twins or an envy about it, no.
Do you ever feel like you have the power of 2 in you?
Yes, I often talk to myself. I hear it better when I say it. I get better answers when I ask the question out loud.
What advice would you give womb twin survivors who are troubled by their loss of a twin?
Life is for the living. You can’t worry about what isn’t, you gotta worry about what is. You shouldn’t suffer for somebody else, it wasn’t your fault. You didn’t do anything wrong, you had a hard enough time getting here. You’re here, enjoy it and celebrate your life and don’t regret the loss. In nature, those who are too weak to survive probably had some kind of illness. Better to go early, when you don’t have the awareness of it, it would be much worse to lose them later. You are full onto yourself, you are complete. You don’t need someone to complete you. You’re not missing anything waiting for the other half, I’m not missing anything. Go deep, it’s all there. Besides, we have more than one other half with 9 billion people in this world. I think there could be a hundred other halves that would fit you perfectly. For example, if your spouse dies and you remarry, how would you remarry and find another if you were sitting around thinking there was only one for you. They were the love of your life and now you have another love of your life. What happened to the original one? You can’t say they weren’t the love of your life, that’s ridiculous. Why would you think you can only have one half when the universe is limitless? That is limited thinking. What if you have 10 halves or 100 halves and you just haven’t met them yet?
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Interview with a Super-Alpha Identical Womb Twin who makes the most of her Survival!
This fascinating interview features a rare example of when a womb twin happily accepts her individuality and lives life to the fullest all while still exhibiting many womb twin survivor behavioral tendencies. This accomplished Professor/Author acknowledges that her Teratoma, removed decades ago, was probably a twin but doesn’t feel the loss or seem to have any of the usual negative affects of being the sole survivor.
We met several years ago because I helped to provide this author with ad campaigns to feature in her advertising books – interestingly, all the campaigns we chose featured “babies.” We got along so well we decided to meet, then became personal friends bonding in a twinlike way. She told me in her 20’s she had a teratoma cyst removed and that’s when I knew she was probably a womb twin survivor and why we felt so connected to each other. She acknowledges the possibility but doesn’t concern herself with anything other than being an alpha individual.
Do you have any prebirth memories?
No – I just have pre-life memories (describes past lives as a male musician in the courts from the 1700’s, a French Revolution soldier who was bayoneted in the back, and a female peasant food server speaking a Slavic language she didn’t understand). She has many vivid memories of other lives but no memories from the womb.
Can you tell us about your birth experience?
I was born 7 lbs and went full term but I was very sick. I had Rh factor so I had jaundice when I was born and was in the hospital for 3-4 months and needed 11 transfusions to the center of my brain and I know they pricked the heel of my foot to test my blood so I’m very sensitive about my head and feet. My father’s 11 friends gave blood for my transfusions and it took a long time for me to get better. I couldn’t digest my food so I was hung vertically from my crib to keep the food down for 2 years. I took 8 bottles as an infant so the doctor noticed I wasn’t getting enough nutrients and formulated a thick oatmeal-like formula, they had to cut the nipples of the bottles so that I could drink the thick mixture. When I got this formula, I was satisfied with one bottle like a normal baby.
I didn’t speak or walk until I was 2 yrs old, I never muttered baby sounds, I just started speaking in full sentences. Until then they thought I was retarded. So it was a hard birth and then when I was eight yrs old I became very sick. I had tonsillitis, appendicitis and osteomilitis and I was in the hospital for about 4 months with a bone infection in my right index finger. I was so sick they said if I spike a fever they would have to amputate my hand. I did have a fever but had been running around playing. They put me in a special bed that had a cross over it for the sickest kids, all summer I was in a room with no air conditioning and remained in the hospital longer than the other kids except for a girl who had rheumatic fever and eventually died. When I arrived at the hospital they didn’t have a bed for me so I had to stay in the maternity ward for 3 days and a lady next to me lost her baby, it was born dead. I talked to her a lot and could feel her pain.
Do you have any residual trauma from this experience?
I don’t like anyone touching my head or my feet. It was hard for me to get my hair done because I was afraid they were going to hurt me and I couldn’t get pedicures but now I’m better.
Do you feel your hospitalization interfered with your attachment bonding?
I know that there were very mean nurses at the hospital during my hospitalizations. When I was eight I was tortured by a nurse who would steal my quarters (which were needed to watch TV) and she would make the needles hurt so that I’d remember never to tell on her, when I got home my entire rear-end was black & blue from this. So I learned that people could be really mean and that it pays to pick your battles. I learned how to survive, it was rough.
Tell us more about the pregnancy?
My mother gained 60 lbs. and they heard 2 heartbeats during the entire pregnancy so they thought there were twins but when it was time forbirth, I was the only one there.
Then when I was in my 20’s I had an ovarian cyst that was ateratoma removed and they said it can have teeth & nail matter in it but itwas never confirmed in my case. I guess they didn’t want to freak me out.
Did you feel different emotionally after you had the cyst removed?
No, I just felt better physically. I had terrible pain in my stomach because the cyst was the size of a grapefruit.
What were your symptoms leading up to the removal of the cyst?
I had terrible stomach aches, not like menstrual cramps but just real pain and it wouldn’t go away.
When they opened me the cyst was much bigger than they thought. I died on the operating table. They had to do a full resuscitation, they ran a tube down my throat and punched me in the chest and I remember the doctor waking me up by screaming my name. The tube scraped the inside of my throat andit took a long time to get better.
Do you have any memories of going somewhere and coming back?
No, I just remember my father was trying to see me before the surgery and he got a speeding ticket, he told the cop he had to see me because something was going to happen. We were always connected.
Did you ever feel like you had a twin?
No, but I know I don’t like to share anything. I don’t like to share the spotlight, I don’t like to share my birthday. I was supposed to be born July 4 but I don’t like all the racket (of Independence Dayfireworks) so why would I want to share my arrival with someone else? I didn’t want to share it so I was born on July 8. I don’t share well, I never did.
Did you ever feel like something was missing in your life?
No, never felt like anything was missing. No person or anything like that. I had such a hard time being here that I was always worried about my own survival. I had a long history with life & death, I had arthritis at age 12, I felt the barometric pressure change and always knew when it would rain. I could feel it in my bones, they thought it was rheumatoid arthritis but it wasn’t. As I got older I stopped getting the weather reports in my body and I miss that now, now I have to rely on instinct.
So where do you think your psychicness and hypersensitivity come from?
I don’t know but I know as a kid I always knew who was going to die in the family. I would dream of them and know they were going to die. The first one was my grandfather, when I was 16 I knew he was going to die and now when I pass people in the street I know when they aren’t well and are going to die. I can look at someone and know they are leaving. They don’t look like we do, their skin tone is grey and their eyes are different and they look like they are leaving, like they are between here and there. Once I ran into a couple I knew for many years, I knew she had cancer and her husband said she was better and looked great but I thought “she’ll be dead in 3 months” and she did die, she was only in her 30’s. Once I had a student in my class and I asked her why she was there and if her mother saw her before she left for school. She said yes, her mother saw her. I asked “she didn’t notice anything? Do you need me to take you to the hospital?” She refused but got herself there and the doctor took her before gunshot victims and people having heart attacks, saying she only had 1 hour to live. She was 20 years old having a stroke. The doctor told her whoever sent you here saved your life. To me it was obvious. People who are sick don’t look like regular people. My husband’s mother was sick for years and I kept urging her to go to the doctor, when she went they found nothing but later it turned out she had lung cancer for years but they never found it. She died 3 days later.
I have this “knowing” – once my parents were going on a cruise but I told them not to go because they were going to get stuck. They cancelled their trip then found out the ship got stuck on a sandbar for 10 days in the ocean. I knew they weren’t going to drown, they just weren’t going to go anywhere. I saw it. To me this stuff is normal, it’s just how I am.
My husband hired someone for his medical practice, when I met her I saw the word “THIEF” in capital letters branded on her forehead. I told him not to trust her because she is a thief. A few months later they arrested her in his office for stealing credit card numbers from his patients.
I also can sense a bad feeling about murderers and places where death has occurred. I feel dark energy.
Have you always felt different from most people?
Yes, I wonder why they don’t get stuff but I realize it’s not obvious to everybody.
Do you feel lonely in that misunderstanding?
No, I feel richer especially when I have something positive to tell someone about their life.
How does it make you feel when I say womb twin survivors have psychic abilities, that their twin wiring goes out into the world to pick up information and connect the dots?
Here’s how I feel, it’s not about that. We’re all electrical, we’re all receivers and transmitters. Some of us are better at it than others. People who are nonjudgmental and open to ideas get more because they open up the signal. We all can receive and transmit, everybody can, we’re all connected. The biggest hurts are in those that can’t speak for themselves, the animals and children. For this reason, I have done work with orphanages and I feel more for those who don’t have family than feelings for atwin.
Womb twin survivors are into rescue because of abandonment issues…
I’m into animal rescue. I got into it because of my father, I’ve spent my whole life rescuing animals that have been abandoned or abused. It’s like I’m trying to make it right. You can’t make somebody else’s wrong right but I think that’s where my sense of rescue comes in, not so much out of being a twin but out of environment. I think about how disorienting it would be to be dumped in the woods and not know where you are. It’s more about feeling discounted, as if that being’s feelings don’t count and they were not consulted. They must just follow the rules but the rules are wrong.
When you refer to your “twinness” does that mean you acknowledge that you were a twin?
Well, they said that I was part of a twin. I can’t deny that because they heard 2 heartbeats. I didn’t feel the absence but my mother gained 60 lbs. The joke was they said I ate her. I don’t remember eating anybody but I don’t like to share. So maybe I was selfish enough to say “It’s my birth, not yours” I don’t know. I had a sister who begged for a sister before I was born.
Are there any known twins or multiples in your family?
Not that I know of. But my husband had a twin somewhere in his family.
So what if he’s a womb twin survivor and you are too?
He wasn’t a twin.
But he could’ve lost someone early who was undetected and that could be your connection.
He wasn’t a twin, only one was born.
But they may not have known…
Well they heard 2 heartbeats for me so they would’ve known.
Not necessarily, for instance, I was born with a live twin and they only heard 1 heartbeat during my mother’s pregnancy. Many twins hearts beat identically so only one is heard when there are two beating simultaneously.
I know you are into synchronicities and matching two bits of information, but have you ever felt an affinity towards twins?
I don’t think I’ve ever had a draw towards twins or an envy about it, no.
Do you ever feel like you have the power of 2 in you?
Yes, I often talk to myself. I hear it better when I say it. I get better answers when I ask the question out loud.
What advice would you give womb twin survivors who are troubled by their loss of a twin?
Life is for the living. You can’t worry about what isn’t, you gotta worry about what is. You shouldn’t suffer for somebody else, it wasn’t your fault. You didn’t do anything wrong, you had a hard enough time getting here. You’re here, enjoy it and celebrate your life and don’t regret the loss. In nature, those who are too weak to survive probably had some kind of illness. Better to go early, when you don’t have the awareness of it, it would be much worse to lose them later. You are full onto yourself, you are complete. You don’t need someone to complete you. You’re not missing anything waiting for the other half, I’m not missing anything. Go deep, it’s all there. Besides, we have more than one other half with 9 billion people in this world. I think there could be a hundred other halves that would fit you perfectly. For example, if your spouse dies and you remarry, how would you remarry and find another if you were sitting around thinking there was only one for you. They were the love of your life and now you have another love of your life. What happened to the original one? You can’t say they weren’t the love of your life, that’s ridiculous. Why would you think you can only have one half when the universe is limitless? That is limited thinking. What if you have 10 halves or 100 halves and you just haven’t met them yet?
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