'While hugging my first child I knew I was losing the second': Meghan Markle talks about the pregnancy that could not be
Meghan, honest as never, has written about the loss of a baby that no one knew was on the way.
Much has been speculated in recent months about whether Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were expecting a second child. Now that they are not front-line royals and lead relatively private lives in Los Angeles, they don't really have to report their pregnancies to the media, like any couple who have no obligations to a Royal Household. However, today the whole world is surprised and deeply moved by the confession that Meghan has made in the form of an editorial in the New York Times, where she reveals that, indeed, she has recently been pregnant but has suffered a painful abortion.
The article is called The Losses We Share and is intended to be a way to support and encourage women who have also suffered abortions to share their experiences to recover from the loss. And, also, breaking taboos about interrupted pregnancies such as that, for example, when they happen in early months, they should not have so many emotional repercussions on mothers: it is normal to feel sad and those babies that were not born deserve their grief, something that it is healing for families.
It all happened last July, at her Los Angeles mansion. She was changing Archie's diaper when she felt a very bad pain in her abdomen and she felt that something was wrong. "I fell to the ground with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, a happy song to contrast with the feeling that something was wrong," he explains. "I knew, while hugging my first child, that I was losing the second," she confesses.
"Hours later I was in the hospital bed, holding my husband's hand. I felt the cold sweat on his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet with both of their tears. Looking at the white walls my eyes turned glassy. I tried to imagine how we would heal, "he adds.
This very public confession by Meghan Markle, so honest, so open and so raw, is above all HUMAN. He and Harry have shared with the world their happy moments, the most tender images of Archie ... but they have just shown themselves closer than ever, making us share in something as painful as the loss of a child. We do not know how this article will have sat at Buckingham Palace, whose policy is, above all, not to show too much of its feelings. But it has surely been a great relief for women around the planet who have lived a similar experience. Brava, Meghan! And a lot of encouragement.
