<\/p>\n
Princess Beatrice has spoken of the \u201cincredibly lonely\u201d
\nexperience of premature birth, urging greater awareness and
\nimproved research as she marks World Prematurity Day in her role as
\npatron of the charity Borne.<\/p>\n
The princess, 37, who welcomed her second daughter, Athena Beatrice, the elder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and The sudden shift from expectation to medical uncertainty, she Her pregnancy had been expected to run into early spring, but in Beatrice previously wrote in British Vogue<\/em> that The princess became patron of Borne shortly after Athena\u2019s According to Borne, around 15 million babies worldwide \u2014 Beatrice said other mothers had told her about the comfort they She added that she hoped sharing her experiences would embolden Beatrice has also emphasised the importance of improving the <\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source royalcentral.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Princess Beatrice has spoken of the \u201cincredibly lonely\u201d experience of premature birth, urging greater awareness and improved research as she marks World Prematurity Day in her role as patron of the charity Borne. The princess, 37, who welcomed her second daughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose, several weeks early in January, described the emotional strain of learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Princess-Beatrice-speaks-out-about-feeling-incredibly-lonely.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162641,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162639\/revisions\/2162641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nElizabeth Rose, several weeks early in January, described the
\nemotional strain of learning her child would arrive ahead of
\nschedule. Her reflections were shared in a special edition of
\nThe Borne Podcast<\/em> released this week, part of the
\ncharity\u2019s Every Week Counts campaign.<\/p>\n
\nSarah Ferguson, said she had felt the familiar burden placed on new
\nmothers to present an image of capability and composure. \u201cI think
\nso often, especially as mums, we spend our lives, you know, feeling
\nwe have to be perfect to do this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\nexplained, can be deeply isolating. \u201cAnd sometimes, when you are
\nfaced with that moment of learning that your baby\u2019s going to come a
\nbit early, it can be incredibly lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nDecember she was advised not to undertake long-distance travel. She
\nabandoned plans to spend Christmas abroad and instead joined the
\nroyal family at Sandringham after doctors warned that an early
\ndelivery was possible. Athena was born several weeks later.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cnothing quite prepares you for the moment when you realise your
\nbaby is going to arrive early,\u201d and added that \u201cthere\u2019s so little
\ncontrol.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nbirth, describing herself then as \u201clooking forward to supporting
\nBorne and its programme of ground-breaking research\u201d. Last week,
\nshe visited the organisation\u2019s laboratories at Chelsea and
\nWestminster Hospital to meet scientists working to understand and
\nreduce premature birth, which remains the leading cause of neonatal
\ndeath and lifelong disability.<\/p>\n
\nincluding some 60,000 in the UK, or approximately one in 13 births
\n\u2014 are born prematurely each year. Despite the scale of the issue,
\nthe charity notes that pregnancy and childbirth receive less than 2
\nper cent of medical research funding.<\/p>\n
\ndraw from the charity\u2019s work. \u201cAnd even now, talking to some of the
\nmums who know about my work with Borne, they feel this sense of,
\nlike, sort of life changing relief that can come with knowing that
\nthere is an organisation there that is supporting the research and
\nsupporting the questions, and asking some of these important
\nquestions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nothers to speak more openly. \u201cThen maybe we can learn from each
\nother.\u201d
Her favourite aspect of parenthood, she said, is that it is \u201clike a
\nsecret club of sharing stories\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nscientific evidence base. \u201cI was really quite shocked to learn that
\nwe really do not have as much data with women\u2019s health, with
\npregnant women\u2019s health,\u201d she told the podcast. \u201cSo I was really
\npassionate about high quality data being able to enrich the medical
\nfield.\u201d<\/p>\n