The National Geographic Channel aired a documentary on multiple births last evening. It was the best thing I have seen on television since Linda Carter was dressed in a swimsuit as Wonder Woman.
Tiny microscopic cameras are going everywhere these days– right up the snatch and into that thing called ‘the womb.’ The show is more mesmerizing than a Australian chasing stingrays on a kangaroo.
See what happens when you discover that most left handed people are probably really a twin and the sole survivor of what experts call ‘Vanishing Twin Syndrome.”
Thanks to new probing cameras and infrared photographs, we are permitted to sit on our sofas and watch from the comfort of our own homes what really goes on inside the womb– the birth place of life.According to the National Geographic Channel, one in every eight of us had a twin, but it was absorbed, for reasons unknown. Perhaps there simply wasn’t enough placenta for both, but more than likely, it’s because one has a bigger egg ego than the other.
The reason scientists believe that most left-handed persons had twins at one time is because of another phenomena they discovered while shooting up the bird of a breeder– “Mirror Twins”– how those rare twins, one left-handed and one right-handed are formed under microscopic conditions. The sience behind the show is breathtaking.
The story on CNN which followed later that evening described possible uterus transplants at New York’s Downtown Hospital within a year’s time.All this new television programming makes me happy that I’m still gay. Legislation may be passed which permits a uterus to be planted inside a male. I volunteer for the experiment. I want a baby and the tax breaks!
To find out what happened to my baby, click here—
I watched the National Geographic “In the Womb:Multiples”, and I too was absolutely in awe of the photographic abilities now obtainable with the use of microscopic cameras. I was also pleased to hear the confirmation of a theory that I had heard several years ago regarding left handedness. My daughter, who is now 14, I’m sure is a survivor of identical twins, who experienced “vanishing twin syndrome”. When I was pregnant the doctors were suspicious of multiples when my protein levels came back quite high, but after ultrasounds and amniocentisis came out negative, nothing was ever discussed again. However, multiples run quite high in our family, not that identical twins are genetic, but my first pregnancy must have also been twins that suffered from “vanishing twin syndrome” as I had two amniotic sacs that were not discovered until I gave birth to my son. My mother had twins, my grandfather was a twin and two sets of cousins on that side have given birth to twins. None of them was on fertility drugs. What an interesting phenomena and one that I’m so happy has been touched upon in this documentary.
You know, there’s a university somewhere that has already done that, and has a website for their pregnant man. If you google pregnant men, I’m sure it’ll come up. I’ll look for it.
If you ever do get selected to carry a baby, please, please, please let us have pictures. That would be too awesome.
How intersting…I’m a left-hander myself, and am about to have a baby who is one of an identical twin – we noticed the other had vanished by week 8…so, if she’s left-handed, my mind will certainly be ticking.
My daughter is four and is left handed, I always had a weird feeling during pregnancy that there was more than one! However, what I do find really difficult is teaching her (trying to) read, write etc… she does everything and understands differently, she is ( I know) a clever wee girl, but I sometimes feel the way she is being taught is not really helping her, in away it’s as though we are trying to get her to use a part of the brain that she does not understand! it’s so frustrating cause she is soooo clever… I just want to understand the best way to help her and get over the whole ‘right handed is normal’ thing!!!
I am 17 and I am left handed. When my mom went to go for her first pregnancy check-up they said she was going to have twins (because the size of her cervix and something else, i dont remember) Well, by her first ultra sound there were no twins, just me. My mom jokes that I “ate my twin”, it is a myth that left-handed people eat their twins (well, absorb them). I know that I didn’t eat it, lol.. but I know that I am the only one who survived.
Someone asked me If I’ve always felt like something was missing, and I often do. Like a piece of my soul is missing, sounds weird, i know.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
both my two kids are lefthanded, although i am not nor were their fathers lefthanded. i too believe in the vanishing twin syndroom. what other explaination could there be? twins run in the family, right? well, both my kids come from different fathers, and there were twins in their families, and in my family!
when i saw this documentary, i was quite astonished, that’s when i relised that it was quite odd, that both my kids are lefthanded…
from a righthanded mom
I am 24 and know I am the “survivor” of vanishing twin syndrome. My mother had bleeding very early on in her pregnancy and was sure she was expecting twins (they also run in our family). For the record I am left handed and its quite strange because despite always feeling like a part of me is missing (interestingly Alanna wrote it felt like a part of her soul is missing – well me too) I’ve also felt a strange feeling of being watched/looked over as if by my deceased twin. Quite a comforting thought in a rather tragic situation..
i no this sounds weird there is no evedince that im a twin but all my life iv felt like im a twin somethings missing i think i was a twin im left handed and just feel that i was a twin and i miss it some how.
I have always thought that i was a twin growing up, i too am left handed. on my neck i have two beauty spots nexto eachother on the left side, then two on the right side in exactly the same place, with the same size, shape and distance appart.
Since i was very young i have always wanted to be a twin, i envy twins, i have even cried about it, i have taken photos of myself next to the mirror just to see what it would of been like. I have always felt a part of me is missing. Even having God in my life as a christian i still feel that missing feeling. i wish there was a blood test i could take or a quiz to see if I could of been a twin. Im 26 now and that is always in the back of mine.
there is a quiz!
http://www.altheahayton.com/form/
Enjoy i hope this may bring you an answer
cool!!! i’m 20, and i’m lefthanded and my mom told me this morning about that twin theory, so i started searching… and thats so cool, i dont know if i had a twin but i have always been a weird person, i would be weirder with a twin, love the idea.
Ok folks, lets do a bit of deductive reasoning here. If left handedness is caused by the left handed twin surviving this “vanishing twin syndrome” in mirror twins – then it stands to reason that there should be loads of sets of idenical twins alive today where one is left handed and the right handed.
Unfortunately I dont know the stats regarding the amount of twins where this is the case but it doesn’t sound like a common phenomenon.
Although, I too am left handed – so maybe I am a ‘twin-eater’!
sorry – typo above:
…where one is left handed and the OTHER IS right handed.
I am an identical/mirror twin and left handed and my twin sister is right handed. Our parents could not tell us apart nor our teachers and later our children when younger. Life has been most interesting! I intend to order the National Geographic “In the Womb: Multiples” as it must be very informative.
74% of twins are right and left handed
Im 16 years old and starting when i was around 10 i started having dreams about a twin brother and i still get them every once in a while..i just had one about a week ago and it got me thinking, maybe i had a twin? i started researching and came across vanishing twin syndrome..as i was researching i found it very interesting how the surviving twin absorbs their twin and is sometimes left with a cyst of some sort on their bodies, i have a small cyst on my neck that i have had since the day i was born and i am left handed.
I’m 25 years old and left handed. I’m not sure if I should have been a twin but sometimes I feel like two different people. I feel like there is someone else in my head telling me things. That sounds crazy. I’m not saying I’m one of those people that hear voices. I just feel like there are times (especially if I’m upset) when there is someone else inside of me. I know we all have internal voices to some extent. But is it possible that if I should have had a twin….could it be her talking to me?
I forgot to mention that my grandfather was a twin, but I have no idea what hand either of them used.
Hi Folks
Yes this is real, I have worked with it for 6 years and have more than 15,000 hits on my website. They reckon 15% of the population are wombtwin survivors – that is, they lost a twin before birth.
Yes there is a lifelong sense of being a twin, being lonely, something missing, as well as addictions, hoarding behaviour, imaginary friends and a whole lot more.
Wombtwin survivors often get misdiagnosed as mentally ill and even label themselves as weird or even crazy! It looks like this is one of those undiagnosed conditions that you only see when its pointed out – and then you find there is more of it about that you could ever believe!
And it’s connected to being gay: the idea is that one seeks out the company of ones lost identcal twin so heterosexual contact just doesnt do it.
Great blog! thanks.
Althea
I can identify with a lot you just explained wow!
I am rather young compared to a lot of the people on here (14), but it’s because my mom told me the other day that most left handed people were twins in the womb. Of course, she just HAD to tell me this after I saw a movie preview for ‘The Unborn’ (a movie about a twin who survived and her unborn brother comes back to haunt her).
Now I am THOROUGHLY creeped out, but at the same time I find this fascinating. [:
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i’m a lefty…and when I read this I felt a part of me melt.
I always wanted a sister,
My two best friends are twins.
What if I really was a twin???
my luck.
funny, i’m a lefty to and have recently started feeling watched. i even (and this is weird) have arguments with another voice in my head. but that could be me being a nutcase. i have always felt like i’m missing somthing and lonely. my friend told me about somthing she heard about leftys haveing a twin that died, and i started crying! i don’t know why, and i never cry in frount of people! then i decided to check out and see if it was true, and i found all this!! odd!!
i’m left handed, surprise surprise, i have been suffering disabling crushing nerve pain for 5 years. i have multiple symptoms physical and psychological that would indicate that i too have “lost” a twin. Yesterday i found out from one of many medical tests that i go through that i have a duplex kidney, which made me remember seeing the doco about in the womb and the left handed twin theory, and wondered maybe my extra kidney is evidence of my SURVIVING twin within me! I know this theory is one that would finally explain my disease Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome I. and also many puzzling factors that have ruled my life.
I don’t think we “eat” our twin, maybe we just co-exist together, maybe Kimberly Faith has always been Kimberly and Faith trying to live in harmony! within one body two souls. Not a missing sibling at all.
Thank you so much for that quiz i did it today and im looking forward to the results. Wow your comment is amazing the duplex kidney thats a big clue. Im just amazed at how much i can relate to all this mirror twin business. its making a lot of sense how my life has been when i read these comments and about it all. I hope i can find out if i was. Otherwise i have to wait till im an old lady and die one day then i will see in heaven.
Its weird I have had dreams of a little girl who looks like me and visions of twins i thought were for someone else or that i will have twins or a daughter when it could be my twin? bizzar but interesting.
thanks again may God bless us all and reveal to us the truth
cheers Kat
I’m a lefty – but only for writing and jacking off. And maybe shooting a gun, but I forget because it’s been a while since I’ve held a gun. My dad was a lefty, too, but none of my siblings are left-handed. I have identical twin nephews, but I don’t know if they are left-handed or not. I’ll find out because you’ve peaked my interest.
P.S. Most of my close friends are left-handed, too. We seem to gravitate to each other.
I thought id add that i also have many left handed friends, the father of one of my sons is left handed, everyone of his siblings are left handed and so is his mother. Sincediscovering this theory i realised that he too has many traits of being a wombtwin survivor and maybe a big reason we were both attracted to each other, we think alike, and both have an uncanny ability of befriending aquarians alike ourselves. food for thought
I am the only Left Handed person in my family, so naturally I find it hard to adapt to certain things. I am not sure if this has anything to do with the documentary but my mother thinks that I may have started out to be a twin because she had a suspected miscarriage with me. I can’t imagine two of me. My mum says it’s bad enough with just the one. Ha, Ha. There is nearly 2000 people in my school and only 50 of them are lefties. I know this because the younger years did a survey. It is so annoying trying to use right handed tools with your left hand. When I am cutting bread I always seem to end up cutting it squinty so the bottom is nearly and inch thicker than the top. Considering everything I love being left handed becauseit is something that individualises me from the rest of the family. I hate following the crowd.
This topic is quite trendy on the Internet at the moment. What do you pay attention to while choosing what to write ?
I also feel as if there is part of me that is missing. i also always feel that there is another person within me, telling me things to do or say. however i am right handed
I’m left handed. Alwys fascinated by twins aswell. My ex was a twin and I felt this unbelievable bond with him. It was beyond sexual and I felt more complete. I use to have alot of anger towards twins for no reason. I also am very telepathic and have strong sympathy pains. I wonder if anyone has felt the same? When I discovered this i also began crying- i dont know why. Thanks for all the msg this has helped me alot!
national left handed day is august 13.
I am left handed and I truely believe that the vanishing twin syndrome is true in relation to left handers being the surviving twin. I once had a vision dream as a child looking at a girl who was exactly the same as me and at times have felt alone growing up and like something was missing. I had a twin pregnancy 2007 ( one of the boys died at 12 wk pregnant) and I an so blessed that my other boy is a surviving twin, and looks like at the age of 2yr he is going to be a left handed. I am so inspired I am going to write a book.
I’m a 15-year-old left handed girl, and I always felt like something in my life was missing. I was always fascinated with twins and I envied them so much because I wanted to be a twin so bad. I feel like I have split personalities. I am a perfectonist, yet a procrastinator, I feel guilty for everything, even if it wasn’t my fault. (Like yesterday, I remembered when I was 5, I asked my dad if he wanted a piece of gum, but I had no gum with me, and I felt really bad after, and I did when I remember it too.) I feel other people’s pain as if it were my own. I cry for almost no reason sometimes and I can’t control it. I heard about this theory back in 5th grade when my friend told me left-handed people used to be twins and she started calling me “Once Twin”. I didn’t know why, but it hurt so much when she called me that, like my heart tearing in two.
When I was little I always looked in the mirror at the other little girl and wanted to go play with her but I could never and it always sadden me….:)
Could it be that I was longing for something that was part of me…
I am left handed and so is my son..:)
I have three children and two are left handed. I bled with only the left handed kids. My husband and I are bot right handed.