Did anyone here have vanishing twin syndrome?

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Did anyone here have vanishing twin syndrome?

I remember the OP from previous G&T threads. Don't hold your breath waiting for her to give a straight answer.

What's G&T?

I agree, we won't get any coherent response on this thread. I recognised the username from the similarly odd mashed potatoe thread last week.

What on earth have I just read ?! 🙄😲

@JustWhattheDoctorOrdered
Twin one left handed, twin two right handed. They are fraternal twins.

Left handedness is more common in twins, that is a fact that been established. Whether all left handedness stems from being a twin or part of a vanished twin conception has not been established.

I had this, lost one twin early on. DD is autistic, too early to know whether she’s gifted but obviously very smart in my eyes 🤓
I sometimes wonder if there’s any connection to autism but really it doesn’t matter.

There’s not, as explained earlier in the thread several times.
Chimerism is the closest thing, but that is incredibly rare and doesn’t apply to brain tissue due to the developmental stage at which the twin is re-absorbed.

Yes, they think my DD absorbed hers. I'd had a sub chorionic haemotoma and she clung on. I was just relieved to see her little heartbeat fluttering away onscreen tbh.

DS is 3 and yes did have a vanishing twin. He said his first words at nine months but that makes him the thicko of the family as everyone else said theirs between 4-7 mths & most of my DNs were able to have conversations by 9 mths.

OP, please tell me you don't honestly believe that the vanishing twin gets reabsorbed into the surviving twin and powers them up? That is jaw-dropping my ignorant.

The link between twins and left-handedness is tenuous and unclear. Left handed fathers have left handed sons, left handed mothers have left handed children. Birth order and birth weight have an impact.

Chimerism is not related to a vanishing twin, but to the number of gametes involved in the original conception. Once two separate bodies are growing, one does not absorb the other.

There was a woman who found out she was her children's genetic aunt as her ovaries were inherited from her twin.

No.

This actually is true. It was a rare and even more unusual case of chimerism.

I wonder whether the OP is confusing chimerism and conjoined twins. I also wonder whether the OP thinks that the vanishing twin is always absorbed by the surviving twin. There is no confirmation of this AFAIK.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild

@GloGirl G&T means gifted and talented. It was a term used officially by the DfE years ago to recognise children with certain potential and to encourage schools to support that potential. It didn't last long and isn't an official thing in the UK any more.

Left handed fathers have left handed sons, left handed mothers have left handed children.
That sounds like a rule @Nimbostratus100 and we know it's not. In our family grandma was LH, so were both her sons, but no grandchildren are.

not a rule at all, no, just a tendency. A left handed father has a slightly higher probability of having a left handed son, but not a left handed daughter, whereas a left handed mother has a slightly higher probability of any of her children being left handed

The other problem with any investigation into left handedness is defining "left handed" as it is far from being an absolute

In left handed. I have three children. One son and two daughters. I'm female.

None of my children are left handed.

Hi there,
Apologies, it seems you did want this post in Gifted and Talented, so we have moved it back.

I had a vanishing twin in my last pregnancy. DD is only 3 seems very cute, loves playing cheeky jokes but seems intellectually pretty average.

Similar story here 😂

This really made me laugh