A moving and deeply personal op-ed for the New York Times from Meghan Markle, that she suffered a pregnancy loss of her second child with Prince Harry, earlier this year.
As she opened up about the experience about the moment in July when she did her routine regular mom’s job, she felt something “sharp cramp” while holding her one-year son, Archie. It was happened in their home in California, the feeling of losing her second child as “almost unbearable grief” has taught her the moment of grief whose arrived as a sigh of breath, not knowing when and how it started.
“I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right. I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” she wrote.
“Hours later, I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal.”
While the op-ed released, there are always pros and cons, some sympathized, others think it just publicity. But the writing truly admonition us to be a caring and kind person to another in this cruel world, by simply asking “Are you OK?”
From ET Online, that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made a point of discussing the pregnancy loss with the royal family before sharing their story publicly.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also knew at the time of their loss that their story was something they wanted to eventually share publicly. It seems now was the right time.
“There is a lot of sadness around the family” and it was “a deeply personal matter which we would not comment on,” a Buckingham Palace source said.
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According to sources to Vanity Fair, Prince Harry’s family has been supportive throughout the experience.
“They decided that they wanted to talk about this and that this was the right time to do so,” a friend close to the couple told royal expert Katie Nicholl. “There’s a tone of hopefulness and optimism at the end of the article which I think shows where they are today. They are doing well.”
Through this writing, Meghan Markle also hopes to encouraging others to talk about miscarriage.
“Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few. In the pain of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered from miscarriage,” she wrote. “Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.”
“Some have bravely shared their stories; they have opened the door, knowing that when one person speaks truth, it gives license for all of us to do the same,” she added. “We have learned that when people ask how any of us are doing, and when they really listen to the answer, with an open heart and mind, the load of grief often becomes lighter — for all of us. In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing.”
