Psychiatrist and theologian, Frank Lake, believes this period is the most important of all and marks the beginning for most forms of future psychopathology. The authors describe the second trimester as a crucial time for the development of spirituality. Their capacity for trauma injuring their spirituality is very great at this time. It is also a time for deciding their path to spirituality or even of having no spirituality at all. During the third trimester the fetus develops a separate sense of self.
Twin conceptions are extremely common.
The authors report that embryologists believe between 30 and 80 percent of us were originally twins. Unresolved grief due to an unconsciously known twin loss is a remarkably common occurrence. When I arrived at the last chapter of the book, Birth , I finally was in familiar territory. At the very beginning of that chapter mention is made of how a baby would awaken screaming each night at the same time. I can relate to that.