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MEGHAN MARKLE HAS revealed that she suffered a miscarriage and lost her second child over the summer.
In an article for the New York Times, Meghan wrote about the loss of her unborn baby in July while she and her husband Harry were living in Los Angeles.
Markle began her article by describing a typical morning when she would get up and take care of her son Archie: “After changing his diaper, I felt a sharp cramp.
“I dropped to the ground with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the happy tune in contrast to my feeling that something was wrong.
“I knew as I hugged my firstborn that I was losing my second.
“Hours later, I was lying on a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand. I felt the moisture on her palm and kissed her knuckles, wet with our tears.
Staring at the cool white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we would heal. “
Harry’s uncle Earl Spencer expressed his condolences to his nephew and his wife during an appearance on the ITV show Lorraine.
He told the host: “I cannot imagine the agony of a couple losing a child in this way. It’s very, very sad. And of course I totally agree with you, all thoughts with them today. “
Other royal women have experienced the loss of an unborn baby, and the queen’s granddaughter, Zara Tindall, suffered two miscarriages before having her second child.
The Countess of Wessex lost her first baby in December 2001 when she was airlifted to hospital after suffering a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy.
An estimated one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage according to the British charity Tommy’s, which funds research on miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births, and most women lose their babies during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. .
Sophie King, a midwife at Tommy’s, said the Duchess’s article sent a “powerful message” to others who have experienced the loss of a baby.
She said: “Meghan’s essay praises the courage of parents who share their stories, and those who prefer to cry in private can still find comfort and connection by reading about the experiences of others.
“Your honesty and outspokenness today sends a powerful message to anyone who loses a baby: This may feel incredibly lonely, but you are not alone. Friends and family, doctors and midwives, all of us in support organizations like Tommy’s; They were here.”
Meghan writes in the article: “Sitting on a hospital bed, watching my husband’s anguish as he tried to hold up the shattered pieces of me, I realized that the only way to start healing is to first ask, ‘Are you okay? ‘”
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She goes on to say, “Losing a child means carrying almost unbearable pain, experienced by many but few speak of.
“With the grief of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 would have suffered a miscarriage.
“Yet despite the striking similarity of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unjustified) shame and perpetuating a cycle of lonely grief.”
The Duchess suffered her miscarriage in July during a busy period in her legal battle with Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL).
Meghan is suing ANL, editor of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, for an article reproducing parts of the handwritten letter sent to her father Thomas Markle in August 2018.
The court case, which was due to begin on January 11 next year, was postponed until fall 2021 for a “confidential” reason.
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