Meghan Markle opens
The Duchess of Sussex, who shares two children with Prince Harry, spoke about having postpartum preeclampsia during the first episode of her new podcast, “confessions of a founder with Meghan.”
Meghan sat with the CEO Bumble Whitney Wolfe Herd, who, according to her, also had the postpartum condition.
“We both had very similar experiences, although we didn’t know each other at that time,” said the Duchess in the episode, published on Tuesday. “We both had preeclampsia, postpartum preeclampsia.”
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Postpartum preeclampsia is a rare but serious condition that occurs after childbirth, usually within 48 hours to six weeks, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“It’s very rare,” said Meghan. “And so scary! And you are still trying to juggle all these things, and the world does not know what is happening in silence. And in tranquility, you are still trying to introduce you to people.”
While Meghan added that you are trying to appear “mainly for your children”, it is difficult since these are “great medical scares.”
Wolfe Herd added that the condition is “life or death, really.”
The CEO of Bumble then opened about another incredible obstacle that royalty experienced after the birth of his first child, Prince Archie.
Wolfe Herd recalled to have seen the Duchess of Sussex stopped in front of the world with his newborn, only two days after his birth.
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“I mean, I will never forget the image of you after delivering to Archie and the whole world was, as, waiting for his debut,” said Wolfe Herd. “I was becoming a point to become a new mother, and I thought: ‘Oh my God, how is this woman doing this? How does this woman get heels and going and debuting a child in this, you know, beautiful attire in front of everyone?'”
“I could barely face a bell delivery for carrying food, you know, in a robe,” the CEO joked. “How, please don’t look at me! Leave it down the street!”
“The postpartum is wild,” said Wolfe Herd. “It’s almost like one foot in a world and one foot in another world. It is a very confusing place to live.”
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