Meghan Markle Shares Video of Princess Lilibet Enjoying Sweet Land

Reflecting on These Early Days

In an October 2021 letter to then-Home Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer explaining her assist for obligatory paid parental depart within the U.S., Meghan wrote of being “overjoyed” however “overwhelmed” when her daughter was born when the pandemic was nonetheless stopping enterprise as standard in hospitals, colleges, and many others.

“Like fewer mother and father, we weren’t confronted with the cruel actuality of both spending these first few vital months with our child or going again to work,” she wrote. “We knew we might take her dwelling, and in that important (and sacred) stage, commit any and every part to our youngsters and to our household. We knew that by doing so we would not must make unimaginable decisions about childcare, work, and medical care that so many must make each single day.”

Meghan continued, “No household ought to be confronted with these selections. No household ought to have to decide on between incomes a dwelling and having the liberty to handle their little one (or a cherished one, or themselves, as we’d see with a complete paid depart plan).”