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Baby loss charities today applauded Meghan Markle for providing a ‘vital step in breaking down that stigma and shame’ around miscarriage after she revealed the ‘unbearable grief’ she suffered after losing her second baby over the summer.
In an article written for the New York Times, the Duchess of Sussex, 39, said she lost her second child after feeling a ‘sharp cramp’ while changing her son Archie’s nappy in July at her Los Angeles home.
Today charity bosses thanked Meghan for speaking out about her loss and praised the duchess for breaking the stigma around the taboo subject and ‘taking us forward in leaps and bounds’.
Michelle Kennedy, who founded a virtual platform called Peanut for women to connect over issues related to motherhood and stillbirth, said the duchess had contacted her personally to thank her for creating the group – which she named after her own son who doctors told her was the size of a peanut at one point in her pregnancy.
She said: ‘Meghan is someone who we know resonated with our user base from the first moment she was in the public eye and beyond, because she took the brave step of saying things that others certainly in the royal family hadn’t yet said.
‘She’s breaking taboos, she’s using her voice to normalise the feelings that every day women are experiencing.
‘It was amazing that she used her platform to reach back out to us, and she continues to be inspiring not only to us, but the millions of women who are using Peanut who want to feel that their emotions don’t make them weird or unusual – they’re totally normal and totally legitimate.
