British Royal House Prince Harry
To cope with the pressure during childbirth, Prince Harry has confessed that he inhaled laughing gas while Meghan Markle gave birth to Archie
Los Dukes of Sussex have not revealed much information about how the delivery went of their firstborn and they have preferred not to tell the media how the birth of their first child unfolded, since they are very intimate moments. However, Prince Harry (38 years old) has confessed in his book ‘In the shadow’ that inhaled laughing gas during labor while his wife, Meghan Markle (41 years old) was giving birth to Archie. The youngest son of Diana of Wales took this gas that is used in countries like the United Kingdom and other countries like Australia, New Zealand or Canada to relieve pain in women who are going into labor and thus make the process much more bearable for women. future moms.
This gas is Entonox and it is a combination of nitrous oxide and medicinal oxygen, the proportion is 50% of each of the gases. Nitrous oxide has an analgesic effect that reduces the sensation of pain and at the same time increases the pain threshold. This causes a relaxing effect and slightly calms the people who use it, this is due to the action that nitrous oxide does on the substances that send signals in the nervous system. Its 50% oxygen concentration, about twice that of ambient air, guarantees a safe oxygen content in the inspired gas.
According to Prince Harry in his memoirs, when Meghan got out of accounts they went undercover at the Portland hospital to check that everything was fine and see if the delivery was imminent or not. When they entered, the doctors saw what the best options to stimulate the baby to be born and Markle tried several homeopathic remedies that did not have the expected result since the baby still did not want to come out. So healthcare professionals They deduced that for health reasons it would be necessary to induce labor.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex with their son Archie
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This was the birth of Meghan Markle
When the key moment arrived for the mother Prince Harry thought about what would be the best option to help to better cope with that complicated and beautiful moment such as the birth of a child. At that time, the Duke of Sussex faced the situation calmly “but I saw two ways to ‘optimize’ that calm. One: Nando’s Chicken (brought by our bodyguards). Two: a bottle of laughing gas by Meg’s bed. I took several slow, deep drags on it,” he confesses. As he inhaled the laughing gas, Meghan Markle was sitting on a Pilates ball that you were bouncing on to help stimulate the baby to want to come out. Harry says that “I took a few puffs again and I also ended up dribbling“.
As the labor progressed and the contractions became more intense the nurse went to administer more laughing gas to the Duchess of Sussex but there was nothing in the bottle anymore, Prince Harry had inhaled its entire content. That provoked laughter from both his wife and the nurse who attended the delivery. Moments later, Meghan Markle got into a bathtub while listening to relaxing music and Prince Harry decorated the room with the same electric candles that he used the time he knelt down to propose to the actress, he even placed them on a table a photo of his mother, Princess Diana, to accompany them in those moments.
Despite having tried different methods to combat labor pain Meghan had to resort to an epidural to be able to continue labor in the least painful way possible. The labor finally developed naturally although there was a risk of performing an emergency caesarean section if the baby didn’t come out on time. Once the baby was born and all the medical checks were done for both Archie and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were able to go home.
Regarding the delivery of the couple’s second child, the only thing that has transpired is that on this occasion Harry was fully present throughout the entire process and helped push his wife. On this occasion there was no presence of this laughing gas.
