A Resurfaced Interview Reveals the Understandable Reason Why Kate Middleton ‘Quite Liked Labor’ With Her 3 Kids

Childbirth is no one’s idea of fun (well, unless you’re Gal Gadot maybe), yet Kate Middleton actually enjoyed the process with her kids Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5. She opened up about this in a resurfaced interview, and the reason why will break your heart.

Back in Feb. 2020, the Princess of Wales told Giovanna Fletcher on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast that she looked forward to labor because of how awful her hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) was. “[Pregnancy was] utterly rotten. I was really sick,” she said in the resurfaced interview, per Hello! Magazine. “I wasn’t eating the things I should be eating and yet the body was still able to take all the goodness from my body and to grow new life, which I think is fascinating.” Moms are just amazing!

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During the interview, Middleton revealed that her husband Prince William wasn’t able to do much to help. “It’s hard to see you’re suffering without actually being able to do anything about it,” she recalled.

Hyperemesis gravidarum is marked by severe nausea, vomiting, weight loss, dehydration, and electrolyte imbalances. While HG can sometimes go away by the second trimester, it often lasts the entire pregnancy, as was the case for Middleton.

“Because it had been so bad during pregnancy, I actually really quite liked labor … Because actually it was an event that I knew there was going to be an ending to!” Middleton said on the podcast. “But I know some people have really, really difficult times, so it’s not for everybody. No pregnancy is the same, no birth is the same.”

Amen to that!

During the interview with Fletcher, Middleton also talked about each of her deliveries. With Prince George, who was born in 2013, she called the experience “Amazing, amazing.” She continued, “It is extraordinary as I’ve said. How can the human body do that? It is utterly extraordinary, actually. And he was very sweet. And also sort of relieved that he was a happy, healthy boy.”

Princess Charlotte was born in 2015 and Prince Louis in 2017. At all three of the births, she had a team of experts on hand, including surgeon gynecologists, midwives, anesthetists, surgical staff members, special care baby unit staff, pediatricians, lab technicians, and managers. She also used hypnobirthing to aid in labor and delivery.

“Actually, it was through hyperemesis that I really realized the power of the mind over the body because I really had to try everything and everything to try and help me through it. There are levels of it,” she said. This is something Middleton “wanted to do” for herself. “I saw the power of it, really, the meditation and the deep breathing and things like that that they teach you in hypnobirthing when I was really sick and actually I realized that this was something that I could take control of, I suppose, during labor. It was hugely powerful.”

Now Princess Kate is using her mind over body mentality to focus on positive thinking amid her cancer battle and chemotherapy treatment. In a message to the public in March, she shared that her cancer diagnosis came “as a huge shock.”

“William and I have been doing everything to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family,” Middleton said in part. “As you can imagine, this has taken time. It has taken me time to recover from major surgery to start my treatment. But most importantly, it has taken us time to explain everything to George, Charlotte, and Louis in a way that’s appropriate for them and to reassure them that I’m going to be OK.”

She’ll get through this like she has every other health battle in her life, with strength and grace.

These relatable moments show that Kate Middleton may be a royal mom — but she’s a regular mom too.

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