Having a great Sunday morning reading the daily mail online. I had to laugh because some of these headlines in the past I would’ve rolled my eyes and been like British press are overdoing it with their stories from “sources” writing half truths.
The sad thing is they’re only quoting from Harris book this past week- so it’s all true . For example him taking laughing gas and getting high ordering chicken while Megan was in labor? What the heck.
Yeah, somehow publishing the book doesn't make it better.
I am also very glad that we know that Meghan bounced on a purple bouncy ball while in labor. Purple is a royal colour after all.
I imagine Moehringer talking to Harry about Archie's birth.
Moehringer: "So, what did you do while Meghan was in labor?"
Harry: "I got hungry so I asked the guards to get me Nando's, and I took some laughing gas."
M: "Ok, noted. What was Meghan doing?"
H: "She was bouncing."
M: "Because of the laughing gas?"
H: "No, that was just me, she was on a bouncy ball"
M: "Ah, I see, what colour was the ball? This is important."
H: "I have no idea anymore. *sees a purple toy from Archie in the corner* Purple?"
M: "Let's make it purple. Good choice."
Harry and the laughing gas.
And of course there was a picture of Diana in the delivery room. Honouring your late mom can be very beautiful. But she seems to be everywhere. On his bedside table, on the wall in the nursery, while giving birth. If I were Meghan's friend I would tell: "That's a red flag."
Meghan ‘bounced on a giant purple ball’ as she went into labour and then climbed into a bath and listed to ‘soulful hymns’ as Harry illumintaed the room with electric candles and placed a photograph of his late mother Princess Diana on a table in the delivery room.
Harry described the extraordinary scene at London’s Portland Hospital in May 2019 as he admitted ‘enhancing’ his mood with nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, a common pain reliever.
‘Meg was so calm. I was calm too,’ he writes in his memoir.
‘But I saw two ways of enhancing my calm. One: Nando’s chicken (brought by our bodyguards). Two: A canister of laughing gas beside Meg’s bed. I took several slow, penetrating hits.
‘Meg, bouncing on a giant purple ball, a proven way of giving Nature a push, laughed and rolled her eyes. I took several more hits and now I was bouncing too.’
He says when a nurse tried to give laughing gas to Meghan for the pain there was none left. He describes how the nurse looked at the empty tank and then looked back at him:
‘I could see the thought slowly dawning. Gracious, the husband’s had it all. “Sorry,” I said meekly.’
Harry writes that the mood changed when doctors decided to give his wife an epidural to ease her pain: ‘The anaesthetist hurried in. Off went the music, on went the lights. Whoa. Vibe change.’
Later, when describing daughter Lilibet’s birth in June 2021 he jokes: ‘This time I didn’t touch the laughing gas (because there was none).’
It’s the nitrous oxide in the delivery room, inhaled, apparently, by whomever feels like it. That just completely blows my mind (as a long time nurse). I am very curious about the legalities of this. I can’t wait to hear what the medico-legal types have to say about it! 
