Left Handed Twins
January 16, 2007 by charlesgeorgetaylor

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..
you people are nuts
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.