What is it about?
In a kind of struggle for life inside the uterus, the weaker of both twins is "relegated" in the fund of the uterus (fetal growth restricted foetus, malformed ones...) and therefore become Twin2. At birth, when one of twins needs resuscitation, it is more oftenly Twin2
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Perspectives
It should be interesting for psychologists to investigate if this "biological domination" of Twin1 over twin2 remains during the entire life psychologically in this twin pair
Dr Pierre Yves François Robillard
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire SudRéunion, Saint-Pierre, Réunion, France
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This page is a summary of: The burden to be second twin: a population-based study of 2686 twins: (2124 dichorionic). Proposal of the concept of mobility, The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, January 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2019.1566308.
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