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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, revealed that she was pregnant with her second child, but that she suffered a miscarriage in July.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, the Duchess wrote that she "felt a sharp cramp" while changing the diaper of her first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, whom she had with her husband, Prince Henry, in 2019. .
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in South Africa last year.
"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," wrote Meghan.
"I knew, as I hugged my firstborn, that I was losing my second."
Meghan describes the difficulty of losing a child
The former actress and member of the British royal family described the difficulty of losing her second son and reflected on the sufferings of the last year in the deeply personal piece.
“I lay down on a hospital bed, holding my husband's hand.
I felt the moisture on her palm and kissed her knuckles, damp from our tears.
Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes went glassy.
I tried to imagine how we would heal, ”he wrote.
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He referenced an interview during a royal tour in late 2019 in which he held back tears after a journalist asked him "Are you okay?"
"Sitting on a hospital bed, watching my husband's heart break as he tried to hold the broken pieces of mine, I realized that the only way to start healing is to first ask, 'Are you okay?'" Meghan wrote.
"Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable pain, experienced by many but few talk about," he said.
“In the grief of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them would have suffered a miscarriage.
Yet despite the striking similarity of this grief, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame and perpetuating a cycle of lonely grief.
Pandemic, racism and more
The Duchess also referred to the human impact of the pandemic and the movement against structural racism and police brutality that have defined 2020. “Health quickly turns into disease.
In places where there used to be community, now there is division, ”he wrote.
And he referred to the proliferation of misinformation and the consequences of the 2020 US elections. He added: “We are not just fighting for our opinions on the facts;
we are polarized on whether the fact is, in fact, a fact.
We disagree on whether science is real.
Disagree on whether an election has been won or lost.
"No matter how much we disagree, no matter how physically distanced we are, the truth is that we are more connected than ever because of everything we have endured individually and collectively this year," he concluded.
Harry and Meghan walked away from their roles as members of the royal family earlier this year, moving to North America, and frequently challenged the intense coverage of their lives by the tabloid media.
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