Losing a child means carrying an unbearable grief: Meghan Markle

Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, has revealed that she had a miscarriage, an extraordinarily personal disclosure coming from a high-profile British royal.

She took to New York Times to write an opinion article. “I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” Meghan wrote. She added that she felt cramp while lifting Archie and she fell down on floor holding Archie in her arms and she was humming a lullaby to keep calm.

“Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few,” she wrote.

“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. Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.”

She also wrote about how 2020 had brought many people breaking points. She also requested people to put their differences aside and to take care of each other.

“So this Thanksgiving, as we plan for a holiday unlike any before — many of us separated from our loved ones, alone, sick, scared, divided and perhaps struggling to find something, anything, to be grateful for — let us commit to asking others, ‘Are you OK?’,” she wrote.

“As much as we may disagree, as physically distanced as we may be, the truth is that we are more connected than ever because of all we have individually and collectively endured this year.”