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Birth Plan
Meghan Markle’s preference, according to the latest reports, is for a home birth. Although the palace wouldn’t comment on the arrangements around the birth to The Daily Beast, and the palace said today that they would be keeping all details around the birth ‘private’ until after the baby has been born, the reports certainly accord with her decision to hire her own female-led maternity team instead of using the queen’s OB-GYNs, whom she refers to as “men in suits” and who are all big believers in the supremacy of medical science and hospitals.