Our columnist Katy Pearson discusses Prince Harry and Meghan's recent announcement.

You may have noticed that Prince Harry and his new wife, Meghan, are expecting a baby.

Reports on how the couple, who married earlier this year, are “very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Sussex is expecting a baby in the Spring of 2019” have not exactly been easy to miss.

But the timing of their happy news has come in for a fair bit of criticism.

Kensington Palace made the announcement on Monday. Which was International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.

The day is a time for remembering pregnancy loss and infant death, which includes miscarriage, stillbirth, sudden infant death syndrome, and the death of a newborn. It follows Baby Loss Awareness Week, which is held annually from 9 to 15 October.

My timelines on social media have been filled with people mourning the babies their arms never got to hold. The babies whose presence was as fleeting as a positive pregnancy test. The babies they carried and birthed, but never heard cry. The children whose birth was registered the same time as their death certificate was issued.

Pregnancy loss and the death of babies is not something we are good at talking about.

And, yet, we are getting better at acknowledging it. Here in Essex there have been wave of light services, with churches illuminated, and hundreds have lit candles in their homes.

We have memorials now, where mothers can have inscribed the names of the little ones they will carry in their hearts forever.

But in the midst of all of this, one of the world’s most famous couples announced their happy news. Would it have been too much trouble for the palace to do a little research? To have avoided a day when so many mothers were feeling that extra bit raw?

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