The Duchess of Sussex has opened up about how she is “juggling it all” while nursing Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet at home, as they have both fallen ill. Speaking in the second episode of her Confessions Of A Female Founder podcast, Meghan revealed that at the time of recording one of her children had RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and the other influenza A – a form of flu.
The Duchess was joined on this week’s podcast by Indian American lawyer and politician Reshma Saujani, founder of the non-profit ‘Girls Who Code’, as they spoke about the challenges faced by working mothers.
Talking about her experiences, Meghan said: “With that comes the woman who is juggling it all and doing it all from home, being confident enough to tell the truth about what’s going on, because you can’t give grace to someone in the same way if you just have no sense of it…
“My kids, for example, right now, one has RSV, the other has influenza A.
“I hear a little pitter patter of feet upstairs, home from school, you know cough syrup all night and rubbing the back, and … we still find a way to show up for both.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Meghan asked Reshma about her experience with miscarriage, which she had openly discussed before. Meghan also had a miscarriage, which she opened up about in 2020, Prince Harry also touched on the subject in his memoir ‘Spare’.
Speaking to her guest, Meghan said: “I have spoken about the miscarriage we experienced. And I think in some parallel way, when you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for and to be able to be OK at a certain point to let something go, something go that you plan to love for a long time.”
Reshma responded: “Yeah. I feel like you are reading my diaries as that’s really insightful as I don’t think anyone has said it that way for me but that’s right because here I was for so many years trying to get pregnant, having miscarriages because I had auto-immune issues and I got into this kind of scary habit where I would be in a doctor’s office and they’d be like, you have no heartbeat.”
Reshma added a heartbreaking comment: “And I should have just gone home and gone to sleep and curled up with my husband. But I would just take a breath and I would just show up in a living room, on a stage and just perform. And often times I was just performing to these children that I desperately wanted and I just got really good at that but it was eating me up inside.”