Victoria: Pregnancy & Childbirth

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The cast explores the challenges of pregnancy and childbirth in the Victorian era.
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  • @sophiemartin7778
    @sophiemartin77786 жыл бұрын

    "I'm a Queen not a cow," that didn't stop her eldest daughter Victoria, Empress Consort of Germany and Queen Consort of Prussia from breast feeding. Alice, Grand Duchess of Hess also breast fed her children but everyone forgets about Alice because of her premature death.

  • @Tina06019

    @Tina06019

    5 жыл бұрын

    Too bad she didn't know that breastfeeding would help her space out her pregnancies; it is hardly foolproof, but it definitely helps.

  • @caitlingroves2053

    @caitlingroves2053

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Tina06019 this was the 19th century. 1800s they didnt havs the facts and technology to prove that, that was the case

  • @hannahdyson7129

    @hannahdyson7129

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@caitlingroves2053 Yes they did . They had connected the dots

  • @CoquetteAndPerfect

    @CoquetteAndPerfect

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amen.

  • @nielubieinceli

    @nielubieinceli

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Tina06019 no, you can get preganant while breastfeeding

  • @zahrahossainian2268
    @zahrahossainian22687 жыл бұрын

    it's actually hilarious because queen Victoria had 9 children lol

  • @rkmor

    @rkmor

    7 жыл бұрын

    Queen Charlotte(1744-1818) Had 15 children and many royal women had more than 10 births even in medieval times.

  • @Midlife_Manical_Mayhem

    @Midlife_Manical_Mayhem

    7 жыл бұрын

    its reported that though she hated pregnancy and being a mother, she loved being intimate with albert, thus many children.

  • @chooseyourpoison5105

    @chooseyourpoison5105

    6 жыл бұрын

    +TheLaydewlf Yes she actually consulted her doctor Dr Snow to ask if there was any way she could continue to have a great sex life with Albert without the inevitable consequences. There wasn't. It's not true that she hated her children, although she didn't enjoy pregnancy and childbirth and wrote in her journal " I often think of our being like a cow or an animal at such times" According to her eldest daughter the Princess Royal, at the time of Albert's death she had actually been hoping for one last child. She wasn't one of those women who gush and coo over their children but it didn't mean she didn't love them, just that she wasn't good at showing it.

  • @mastersnet18

    @mastersnet18

    6 жыл бұрын

    ChooseYour Poison They did have condoms back then though. I guess the doctor decided not to inform her of them.

  • @chooseyourpoison5105

    @chooseyourpoison5105

    6 жыл бұрын

    +mastersnet18 Yes they did but they were mostly used for the purpose of STD prevention, not contraception, as they were made of leather rather than today's ultra thin latex, and thus were mostly used by prostitutes. Plus it was viewed as a wife's duty to "please her husband." I don't imagine Victoria would have been too pleased if Dr Snow had instructed her to use an anti-clap sheath, nor would Albert probably have liked it much. Though it does give a new meaning to the phrase "sporting a Prince Albert" Lmao!

  • @petfan2948
    @petfan29486 жыл бұрын

    I was crippled giving birth to my son 28 years ago because the consultant refused to give me a caesarean. It took me 6 months to learn to walk again, but I am left disabled, having to use a wheelchair and crutches. I lost a lot of blood and my son was born blue because I couldn't push him out. I was given an overdose of Pethadine by a trainee midwife which left me having hallucinations all through my labour. I wonder if ending up crippled as I did and having to learn to walk again, but being left disabled was also quite common before caesareans were perforned.

  • @ashsqx3246

    @ashsqx3246

    6 жыл бұрын

    pet fan wish more people knew how comon this is even today. my colleague was a carer for a woman paralysed and in a wheelchair for rest of her life due to childbirth injury. this is today in Australia.

  • @snowytiger957

    @snowytiger957

    5 жыл бұрын

    She should be fired.

  • @aminamaradesa9778

    @aminamaradesa9778

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m soo sorry that you went through this

  • @MaryTheresa1986

    @MaryTheresa1986

    2 жыл бұрын

    I hope you sued for malpractice.

  • @Honeybees1005

    @Honeybees1005

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh my. I am so sorry this happened.

  • @765respect
    @765respect6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Queen Victoria for pushing for pain relief (no pun intended). Childbirth is still a dangerous condition. Had it not been for modern medicine, my baby and I would have died during child birth. My hip bones did not open enough to let the babies through. I have normal hips, they just never loosened up. But we are all strong and healthy, so no worries:)

  • @petfan2948

    @petfan2948

    6 жыл бұрын

    765respect I had the opposite. My pelvis came apart up to my hips and crippled me.

  • @765respect

    @765respect

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oh my god! That's so awful. I'm so sorry to hear about what happened to you. I don't know what to say. I hope you are and will get better. I hope your girls will not endure that. My thoughts are with you.

  • @rach_laze

    @rach_laze

    6 жыл бұрын

    The same happened with my mum, she ended up having an emergency c section with my sister and then a planned one with me because it wasn't known at the time but her pelvis (and mine) is fused at the bottom and so can't open up to let the baby through it nearly killed her trying a natural birth she ended up having 8 pints of blood transfused to keep her alive, and at 5" 4 and 9 stone that's a fuck tonne of blood, because they couldn't stop the bleeding for 2 hours

  • @FlagCutie

    @FlagCutie

    5 жыл бұрын

    For real! My best friend is an OBGYN and every time I see historical stuff like this I send her a text telling her how happy I am her profession exists lol. She always laughs.

  • @kerriethompson2073

    @kerriethompson2073

    5 жыл бұрын

    That was me and my mom as well. When I was born the placenta was blocking the birth canal causing me to tear it accidentally and making my mom hemroage. Mind you this was back in the 70's when ultra sounds were not common. Long story short I was born via emergency c-section other wise my mom would have bleed to death and I would have drowned in her blood. Thank God for modern medience indeed!

  • @lenir475
    @lenir4754 жыл бұрын

    "I'm a queen, not a cow." Oookkkkaayyyyy Vicky, whatever you say.

  • @MTknitter22

    @MTknitter22

    4 жыл бұрын

    KittenSparkles Cute! A gross thing to day, Queen or not

  • @salvolondon

    @salvolondon

    4 жыл бұрын

    KittenSparkles Cute! All female mammals breastfeed , not just cows , so queen Victoria was pretty ignorant in that . Plus she could have used breastfeeding as contraceptive ( I know it’s not 100 per cent working ) , but if you breastfeed there are less chances that you get pregnant right after giving birth

  • @adriannespring8598

    @adriannespring8598

    4 жыл бұрын

    She never liked being pregnant. Loved the sex, HATED the result.

  • @gidzmobug2323

    @gidzmobug2323

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@salvolondon Victoria's second daughter Alice wanted to breastfeed. Victoria thought the practice was disgusting.

  • @speedy806

    @speedy806

    3 жыл бұрын

    In her defense breastfeeding was a new thing coming in at this particular time most women especially royal women didn’t breastfeed

  • @spookyspeks1259
    @spookyspeks12596 жыл бұрын

    If the doctor went back to that time and saw her as queen victoria ‘You’re in the past again! My impossible girl!’

  • @narutosbelievin
    @narutosbelievin2 жыл бұрын

    Please bring back this show! I love it so much!

  • @myrnyocom3344
    @myrnyocom33446 жыл бұрын

    SHE IS A FANTASTIC ACTRESS -- I LOVE SEEING HER IN THE MASTERPIECE MOVIES! YEP!

  • @danielgardecki1046

    @danielgardecki1046

    5 жыл бұрын

    You mean you love seeing her in British TV shows mainly from *ITV* and the *BBC* which get rebroadcast on *PBS* in America. *Victoria* is an *ITV* series.

  • @shellbythesea12
    @shellbythesea126 жыл бұрын

    Being a nun before modern times sounds like a great thing. You don't have to deal with the bother of a man,you could get educated and best of all you would not have to fear dying in childbirth

  • @mclaire9447

    @mclaire9447

    4 жыл бұрын

    You also get beaten, starved, and/or imprisoned if you question the church’s decisions or church doctrine :/

  • @zazzy6758

    @zazzy6758

    4 жыл бұрын

    Talia Skye well if you were a nun you probably shouldn’t be doing that anyway

  • @mclaire9447

    @mclaire9447

    4 жыл бұрын

    Teigan Jane maybe, but there wouldn’t be records if it didn’t happen with some frequency

  • @TheKatze90

    @TheKatze90

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think they were also allowed to have some really good education in relation to other women.

  • @sarahedwards2
    @sarahedwards26 жыл бұрын

    Kaiser Wilhelm was born with a damaged left arm; he was breech and so the doctors were able to turn him but his arm was damaged; Victoria's daughter Vicky went through a very painful 15-hour labour with him and almost died from it. My brother's arm was in the way when he was born and so they did a C-section on my mom after almost 32 hours of labour; her water started leaking 10 weeks and 4 days early and the placenta was slowly detaching but neither was in an emergency situation. The staff gave my mom medication to slow the labour and then surfactant for the baby's lungs. My brother weighed a robust 3 pounds 9 ounces at birth for an almost 30-week baby.

  • @luminousmoon86
    @luminousmoon866 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure where she got that 65% statistic but that is definitely wrong. It was more like 1 in 5 women died in childbirth, so yeah, still atrociously high by today's standards, but 65% is ridiculous.

  • @kikilovesllamas1019

    @kikilovesllamas1019

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wood there not in the US so maybe the prestige of women dying in child birth was different

  • @3passionflower

    @3passionflower

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kate Wood where do u get your figs from .There was no birth control.and women had no pp,so i agree with that percrntage .Not like how spoiled we all are

  • @callmeyourdai5y518

    @callmeyourdai5y518

    6 жыл бұрын

    65% of women did not die in childbirth. There is a number similar to that but lower (I can't quite remember what it is) I think Jenna was just given an incorrect conversion or something. Human error you know?

  • @rach_laze

    @rach_laze

    6 жыл бұрын

    65% in childbirth specifically is ridiculous but I recall doing a comparative study of mortality in the 19th&20th centuries at university and from memory around 1870 there was a peak almost at 65% of women aged 15-30 dying due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth be it abortion, miscarriage the birth itself or some sort of infection up to a year after giving birth that could feasibly be linked back to the pregnancy eg pelvic cysts. I can't quite remember if it was a national study of the whole uk or regional (yorkshire) unfortunately but at one point in history there was a 65% maternal mortality rate mainly due to the lack of birth control options causing higher rates of pregnancy to begin with especially in poor populations who couldn't really afford a doctor if something were to go awry

  • @elleran1969

    @elleran1969

    4 жыл бұрын

    Women dying in childbirth was a very common cause of death for women all throughout history, in fact whether it was your first or tenth child there was always a good chance of things going wrong so many women died having babies as they had so many.

  • @kylematthews1781
    @kylematthews17817 жыл бұрын

    CLARA FROM DOCTOR WHO! Yes!! Omg no way...

  • @imsusannav

    @imsusannav

    7 жыл бұрын

    Kyle Matthews Hi! Another Doctor Who fan here!

  • @alexandragiesbrecht7270

    @alexandragiesbrecht7270

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yas doctor who

  • @Alice1020005

    @Alice1020005

    7 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone Ship whouffle

  • @kylematthews1781

    @kylematthews1781

    7 жыл бұрын

    Eyeless Jack Nothing really? You?

  • @kylematthews1781

    @kylematthews1781

    7 жыл бұрын

    Susanna Vipond Hey! How are you?

  • @51Saffron
    @51Saffron6 жыл бұрын

    A lot of women died during childbirth, after child birth and sometimes months after child birth especially if there were infections. However it wouldn't be 65%, I think she made a mistake there. Babies often died before being born, and that in itself put the mother at a higher risk of death, babies were still born and if born alive many died before their first birthday. Infant mortality was very high. My ancestor lost all 6 of her children ranging from 13 - 3 in one year from the flu.

  • @gothgirlgraveyard3539
    @gothgirlgraveyard35394 жыл бұрын

    She survived 9 times because she was a strong and amazing woman

  • @lisabelmontage
    @lisabelmontage7 жыл бұрын

    Kate Williams did a programme on Charlotte and Victoria. It was really sad that Charlotte died. That poor baby it was still born and a very healthy weight. I think being a natural mother doesn't matter. But Victoria did provide a stable home.

  • @isabella-wz3zn

    @isabella-wz3zn

    6 жыл бұрын

    who is kate williams?

  • @X_scarlet_x1
    @X_scarlet_x16 жыл бұрын

    Jenna is absolutely gorgeous always stunning

  • @mmar4102
    @mmar41027 жыл бұрын

    Omg! 64%!

  • @CloudTribe

    @CloudTribe

    7 жыл бұрын

    its not 64%..

  • @ardiffley-zipkin9539
    @ardiffley-zipkin9539 Жыл бұрын

    It was a great series.

  • @kieranmahon4382
    @kieranmahon43826 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Interesting.

  • @loreelee8268
    @loreelee82682 жыл бұрын

    Yes it was.my great aunt had twenty kids in those days.i had an emergency c section with my third.i was bleeding out so I would have died if I was living in that Time.and two of my children actually had c sections as well so they would have passed as well.......crazy times

  • @swirledstar
    @swirledstar6 жыл бұрын

    CLARA loved you in the Doctor Who Christmas special

  • @lidianedossantos4738
    @lidianedossantos4738 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Queen Victoria!!!

  • @saigetitus9923
    @saigetitus99236 жыл бұрын

    What show

  • @rkmor
    @rkmor7 жыл бұрын

    I heard that around that time 1 in 200 births ended with the death of the mother.And the average woman gave birth to 6 children so around 3% of women over the childbearing years would died on average.More males died in childbirth than females when taking infant mortality into account.There is no way that 65% of people could have died in childbirth and humans to still exist.

  • @rkmor

    @rkmor

    7 жыл бұрын

    That info I got comes from the 2006 book call "Birth:The surprising history of how we are born" Page 246 from a study of birth in the 1760s.That book is written by Tina Cassidy.More males dies as a result of childbirth comes from the book called "EVE:Sex,childbirth, and motherhood through the ages"Page 142.The study is from The Magazine of domestic economy Vol 2 March 1844It gives the raw data and when you add it up more male babies died than female babies and mothers combined.However none of this should make people rethink the horrific suffering that women has endured through the ages.

  • @Fitzroyfallz

    @Fitzroyfallz

    6 жыл бұрын

    I think they meant that 65% of women died during childbirth, not 65% of childbirths resulted in a dead mother.

  • @3passionflower

    @3passionflower

    6 жыл бұрын

    raymond morgan 65 percent of births and families had between 5 and 20 kids so do the math

  • @Cybele1986
    @Cybele19867 жыл бұрын

    That number is wildly inaccurate. the chances were approximately 2% for every delivery. However, that meant your chances were not inconsequential if you had a large family.

  • @ssh1487

    @ssh1487

    6 жыл бұрын

    Cybele1986 and if you got pregnant like 9 times

  • @enggmanya

    @enggmanya

    5 жыл бұрын

    You know childbirth is still fatal for women.

  • @enggmanya

    @enggmanya

    5 жыл бұрын

    you have no idea how many pregnancies women went through?

  • @Tina06019

    @Tina06019

    5 жыл бұрын

    I thought she said "6 to 5%." I believe it was about 2% to 3% overall for each in 19th century Britain, but it could vary widely depending on a number of factors. Neonatal death rates for the baby being born were quite a bit higher than maternal mortality in each separate childbirth. Death from infection and from hemorrhage would top the list of causes. Death rates were highest for first-time mothers (primips), especially if they were under 17 years of age or over 35 years of age, and also peaked after about 6 to 7 deliveries (grand multips). Death rates were also higher if the pregnancies were too close together, for much the same reason as they are in grand multips: the tired uterus can evert & fall out after the birth of the baby, or the woman bleeds out from a worn-out, ineffectually-contracting post-delivery uterus. This still happens, but is now rare, and rarely fatal when it does happen, in developed countries. In part, that is because modern women in advanced countries have fewer pregnancies, and they are spaced further apart, with a decent recovery period between them. [I am an old retired doctor. I still remember that after a visiting family with "stair-step" (year-apart) children left our house, my father exclaimed with disgust "Is he trying to KILL her?" All 5 of us were at least 2 years apart in age, born in the 1950s and very early 1960s.] Maternal mortality was extremely high in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban; some years it was the worst in the whole world, competing with the Sudan for a race to the bottom. This horrible situation has slowly been improving starting about 3 years after the US and its allies invaded Afghanistan. About 6 or 7 years ago, a midwifery college was restarted in Kabul, with good results already showing in dropping maternal mortalities.

  • @lime__time

    @lime__time

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think you understood it wrong, I believe they ment that 65% of deaths in females died in child birth. The number is still likely exaggerated as j believe it was closer to 46%.

  • @katelane1305
    @katelane13056 жыл бұрын

    0:35 is that Newt Scamander

  • @samyuktaarikarevula2095
    @samyuktaarikarevula20953 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know if and where I can watch Victoria in India

  • @skyletta0626
    @skyletta06265 жыл бұрын

    Jenna Coleman 💗

  • @sophiepalmer-doran344
    @sophiepalmer-doran3446 жыл бұрын

    Princess Charlotte Of Whales THE PRENATAL COURSE OF PRINCESS CHARLOTTE not made public until 1949 According to the accepted rules, she was carefully dieted almost to the point of starvation. Bleeding was undertaken regularly and she was purgd daily and given a mild laxative daily. This was called a “lowering system of treatment.” Prenatal care A review of Doctor Croft’s personal records concerning the Princess’ prenatal course: that the princess was to rise at 9:00 a.m.; take breakfast before 10:00; lunch at 2 p.m. eat a little cold meat or some fruit and bread and at dinner to take plainly cooked and easily digested food. She is to exercise both on walking and on horseback on days that weather permitted. She should bathe daily with warm water and to have her loins washed daily with cold water. She was advised to avoid any animalistic appetites. Princess Charlotte wrote to Dr. Croft on the 10th of August of that year. She stated: “I am certainly much better for the bleeding.” It was reported in the court newspaper on October the 22nd of that she had some slight headaches at which time it was necessary to extract blood. It was also noted on one occasion that they had to incise her arm four times before they could find a vein as they were quite deep and ultimately, after consultation, the back of the hand had to be used to let out blood. Either she was gaining a lot of weight or had edema The Princess became so immense it was thought she might have twins. Mrs. Griffiths, the nurse arrived at Claremont on the 1st of October, and about one week later Dr. Croft arrived at the Claremont and took residence and waited for labor to begin. Labor and delivery At 7 o’clock on the evening of Monday, the 3rd of November, at 42 weeks and 3 days gestation, the membranes spontaneously ruptured and labor pains soon followed. The contractions were coming every 8 to 10 minutes and were very mild. Examination of the cervix at that time revealed the tip of the cervix to be about a half penny dilated. On Tuesday morning, around 3 a.m., the 4th of November, Princess Charlotte had a violent vomiting spell and Dr. Croft thinking that delivery was eminent, sent for the officers of the state and Dr. Matthew Baillie. The Archbishop of Cantebury, the Bishop of London, The Lord Chancellor, the Home Secretary, the Secretary of war and Dr. Baillie, all arrived in their coaches and four before 8:00 a.m. But alas, the Princess was only three centimeters dilated at this time. The lying-in chamber, or Charlotte’s bedroom, was a corner room with large windows on two sides, and it was at the back of the house. There were two doors, one opened into Prince Leopold’s room, which was not occupied, by Sir Richard Croft and the other into the breakfast room, where the archbishop and other ministers sat awaiting the event. This room in turn led into the big gallery and the other principal rooms. One wonders how much peace and quiet Princess Charlotte and Dr. Croft had during the some 40 hours of labor. The pains continued. They were weak and ineffectual but still sharp enough to be distressing, occurring about 8 minute intervals with little progress in the labor. Around 11:00 a.m. that morning after 16 hours of labor the cervix probably 4 cm. with some effacement. At this point Dr. Croft began to worry that the uterus was acting irregularly and that some assistance might be necessary to bring about delivery. Thus a consultation was desirable. It was agreed before that Dr. John Simms would be the consulting physician. He therefore wrote a note to Dr. John Simms, but put off sending it because he felt like contractions were beginning to improve. At 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, she was noted to have just an anterior lip of cervix, and by 9:00 p.m., she was completely dilated. At this point, she had had about 26 hours of the first stage of labor. At this point, Cr. Croft must have felt some relief for he could feel the ear for the first time; the head was noted to be low in the pelvis and Princess Charlotte was well. Nevertheless, the pains continued to be of poor quality and he sent his note to Dr. Simms summing him to immediate attendance. Dr. Simms arrived at 2:00 a.m., on the 5th of November after the second stage had been going on for 5 hours. Charlotte’s progress was discussed with Dr. Baillie and Dr. Simms and a “hands off”, watch and wait type policy was agreed upon. Labor was advancing, but the progress was very slow. The patient was in good spirits; pulse was calm; the “instruments were in readiness;” but the use of them was never considered a question. At noon, on Wednesday, the 5th of November after the second stage of labor had gone on for 15 hours, the uterine discharge became a dark green color, which made the medical attendants fear that the child might be dead. Between three and four p.m. after the second stage had gone on for 18 hours, the child’s head began to press on the external parts, and by 9:00 p.m., was born by the action of Charlotte’s pains only. The child, a 9 lb. Boy was dead and had evidently been dead for some hours. The umbilical cord was very small and was of a dark green or black color. Attempts were made by Drs. Simms And Baillie for a good while to reanimate the child by inflating the lungs, use of friction, hot bathes, and other methods, but with effect. The heart could not be made to beat not even once. This written by Dr. John Simms many years later. Postpartum About ten minutes after the delivery, Sir Richard Croft discovered that the uterus was contracted in the middle in an hourglass form. The consultants agreed that nothing should be done unless hemorrhage should start. Approximately 20 minutes later, the princess began to hemorrhage. The uterus had contracted down so as to only admit the tips of three fingers, but with some pressure he was able to pass his hand with tolerable ease and peeled off the remaining two-thirds of the adhering placenta without difficulty and before much blood appeared to be lost. At this, Charlotte complained of this being the hardest part of the whole labor. Croft grasped the placenta; brought it down into the vagina and left it there. The Princess complained of pain in the vagina because of the placenta being left there, stating it was giving her great inconvenience and that it was protruding considerably. Thus the doctor removed the placenta from the vagina and this was followed by a moderate discharge of fluid and coagulum. At this time as well as he could feel from the abdominal wall, the uterus appeared to be moderately well contracted. Princess Charlotte appeared quite amazingly well as women commonly do after so tedious and exhausting a labor and much better than they often do under other such circumstances. For the next 2 hours Croft felt no apprehension. The patient took plenty of nourishment, made only a few complaints and had a pulse less than 100. It was felt by Dr. Simms (in his letters) that the patient had lost less blood than usual at this point. About 11:45 a.m., Charlotte became nauseated and complained of a singing noise in her head. She was treated with a camphor mixture. Shortly afterwards she vomited. She took a cup of tea and went to sleep for about a half an hour. At that point she became more irritable and more restless and began to talk incoherently. She was given at that point 20 drops of laudanum in wine and water. About 12:45 am. On the 6th of November she complained of great uneasiness in her chest and great difficulty in breathing. Her pulse became rapid, deep and irregular, and she extremely restless and was not able to remain still for a single moment. Attempts were made to give her cordials, nourishment, and anti-spasmodic and opiates. Dr. Matthew Baillie requested that Dr. Barren Stockmore (personal physician of Prince Leopold) see the patient towards the end of her illness. He was reluctant but at last went with him. Dr. Stockmore describes in his “Memoirs” that the princess was “suffering from spasms in the chest and had difficulty in breathing and was in great pain and very restless.” She threw herself continuously from one side of the bed to the other, speaking out to Baillie and Croft. Baillie said to her, “here comes an old friend of yours.” She held out her left hand to me hastily and pressed mine warmly, twice. I felt her pulse, it was going very fast, the beats now strong, now few, now intermittent.” She commented to him, “The doctors had made me quite tipsy.” Near the end, Dr. Stockmore noted that the death rattle continued. The pretty Princess turned several times upon her face, threw up her legs, they the hands grew cold and she died.

  • @joanavitorino1436

    @joanavitorino1436

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jesus

  • @fantasyfiction101

    @fantasyfiction101

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dear gosh, if she had better prenatal care and intervened sooner, she could have lived.

  • @iyavi2337
    @iyavi23376 жыл бұрын

    CLARAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

  • @CloudTribe
    @CloudTribe7 жыл бұрын

    Does the actor know that she's massively off by thinking 65% of woman/children died from birth in the olden days. Even if 1/3 of babies and mothers died we'd be extinct. It was like 10% and a 2/3rds of that 10% mortality to mothers comes from haemorrhaging or infection. Woman don't just die from pain or pushing.

  • @callmeyourdai5y518

    @callmeyourdai5y518

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think someone told her a statistic where they got the ratio mixed up. Because the highest death in childbirth for that time period was over 60 in every 1000 births. Someone's gotten their maths mixed up when converting ratio to percentage.

  • @IrinNovy

    @IrinNovy

    7 жыл бұрын

    and these people make series without checking their facts :( Feeding the audience lies. Unprofessional.

  • @panchenkoo5718

    @panchenkoo5718

    7 жыл бұрын

    it is historical fact . corset was wearing since 2 years old, in eage of 6 for meking thin waist. girls wearing corsets even during sleep 、before they get married. normal waist was 55 сm. after 30years old they cant walk without corset becouse their muscle atrophied. they can't push something becouse they haven't muscels

  • @KaityLove22

    @KaityLove22

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ok, I looked into it, and she was a little mixed up. So, during the 19th century every 60 pregnancies in 1,000 were fatal. But, ~60% of the female population that died, died from childbirth. This was due to woman having so many children. Anyway, it was the leading cause of death among women in the 19th century.

  • @vilwarin5635

    @vilwarin5635

    7 жыл бұрын

    That was only from 1860 until 1900. Not all corsets were restricted, only post-victorian ones were. That fashion didn´t lasted long.

  • @aislinnslider9593
    @aislinnslider95937 жыл бұрын

    Aislinn Slider Yes👰👦love

  • @who2088
    @who20886 жыл бұрын

    Claraaaaa

  • @angela123altintas8
    @angela123altintas86 жыл бұрын

    It is the most unbearable condition that a human being can bare.

  • @annmitchell4663

    @annmitchell4663

    6 жыл бұрын

    angela123 altintas Rubbish..its painfull,but its also wonderful.

  • @helene4397

    @helene4397

    6 жыл бұрын

    I would cry in happiness in order to experience it 😭

  • @chooseyourpoison5105

    @chooseyourpoison5105

    6 жыл бұрын

    Amen sister! While I love my children and wouldn't change a thing, anyone who bleats about childbirth being 'beautiful' and 'a spiritual experience' is out of their minds. It's hours and hours of absolute agony that culminates in shitting a football. It's testament to how tough we women are that we know how much it's going to hurt but still willingly do it.

  • @x0xTHLover4Lifex0x

    @x0xTHLover4Lifex0x

    5 жыл бұрын

    I agree. Pregnancy and childbirth are not beautiful. Its grotesque and completely barbaric. The outcome is beautiful but the process is awful.

  • @Tina06019

    @Tina06019

    5 жыл бұрын

    My first childbirth was ghastly, but the result was good. I was terribly sick for months in my last pregnancy, but the birth was okay, and the result was good. I have never had a broken femur, though I suspect it would be comparable in pain to childbirth. (Passing my kidney stones hurt less, though.)

  • @sraxmahfud1685
    @sraxmahfud16857 жыл бұрын

    uh chloroform was used during the body of her 8th child

  • @gidzmobug2323

    @gidzmobug2323

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes, during the birth of the last two (Leopold and Beatrice). The clerics of the time railed against it because "pain in childbirth was biblical" (citing Genesis). Victoria came through it without problems, which encouraged other women to use it.

  • @allanrichardson1468

    @allanrichardson1468

    6 жыл бұрын

    Technically, as the reigning monarch, Victoria outranked the Archbishop in the Church of England, so she could have given herself permission to use anesthesia for childbirth. But unlike her ancestor Henry VIII, she didn’t want to give the impression of not respecting the professional theologians for her personal benefit (Henry didn’t care what anyone else thought, he was the KING). More recently, Edward VIII could have used his position as King to change the Church teaching on divorce to allow himself to marry Wallis Simpson, but deferred to the accepted position of the Church, and Anglicans in general, rather than forcing the issue. And that is how George VI became King during World War II, and the U.K. avoided an alliance with Hitler. Personally, I think the US and UK should have given their respective highest honors to Wallis for saving the world from the Nazis. Maybe posthumously, since she didn’t realize what she did, and may have sympathized with Nazism.

  • @maddiewhatever441
    @maddiewhatever4416 жыл бұрын

    And yet Queen Victoria called babies frogs

  • @chooseyourpoison5105

    @chooseyourpoison5105

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well, newborn babies DO move their limbs like frogs in the water until they get a bit older and have better muscle control - Victoria's use of the phrase "frog-like" is actually pretty accurate. Victoria was well known for her candid nature, she called it like she saw it

  • @Cat_catiti
    @Cat_catiti5 жыл бұрын

    Lili victoria

  • @VanessaMartinez-cc8xz
    @VanessaMartinez-cc8xz5 жыл бұрын

    CLICKED FOR CLARA ANYONE ELSE?

  • @iAmMadeOfSoup
    @iAmMadeOfSoup7 жыл бұрын

    Is this a movie cus I wanna see it

  • @masterpiecepbs

    @masterpiecepbs

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hi ცՆυ૯ Dıคɱ૦Ոძ! This is a television show airing on MASTERPIECE on PBS.

  • @orxven1551
    @orxven15516 жыл бұрын

    She had 9 children so I mean..

  • @orxven1551

    @orxven1551

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wendy Garcia I know.

  • @retearwqtaet
    @retearwqtaet6 жыл бұрын

    It was no where near 65%. You were looking at about a 1-2% chance of dying in any given childbirth during this point in time. Even if you had 10 kids, that's like a 10-20% chance. Still absurdly high by today's standards, but not anywhere close to the number she cited here.

  • @lulu-qz2en

    @lulu-qz2en

    6 ай бұрын

    Imagine the luck she would have had if it was 65% 😂

  • @rowan1208
    @rowan12086 жыл бұрын

    ALL 9 CHILDREN WITH HER COUSIN!!!!!!!

  • @caitlingroves2053

    @caitlingroves2053

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was fine back then

  • @alybot2.059
    @alybot2.0595 жыл бұрын

    CLARA

  • @mehaksharma6272
    @mehaksharma62724 жыл бұрын

    Is it on Netflix????what is name of show???

  • @jolijnattema1638

    @jolijnattema1638

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sadly no. The name is Victoria

  • @fantasyfiction101

    @fantasyfiction101

    4 жыл бұрын

    It’s on amazon prime

  • @tiernanice2489
    @tiernanice24896 жыл бұрын

    CLARA OSWALDDDDDDDD

  • @samuraireincarnation3853
    @samuraireincarnation38535 жыл бұрын

    She was my great great great great grandmother ;p it’s in my grandfathers records

  • @Honeybees1005
    @Honeybees10052 жыл бұрын

    My twin babies and I would have died if it weren't for modern medicine.

  • @sabrinavlashuku521
    @sabrinavlashuku5212 жыл бұрын

    Giuseppe samuele frega gemellini sabrina vlashuku

  • @sabrinavlashuku521
    @sabrinavlashuku5212 жыл бұрын

    Giuseppe samuele frega gemellini sabrina vlashuku sabrina crisian capuano

  • @adhfan75
    @adhfan755 жыл бұрын

    LOL From the sound of it, if 20th & 21st century birth control (ie the pill) had existed in Victoria's era, she probably would've used it. (Nine kids? OMG..lol Glad she survived.)

  • @Thunderbird-cs2cz
    @Thunderbird-cs2cz2 жыл бұрын

    I survived ectopic pregnancy; technology has come a long way,

  • @christinecameron1612
    @christinecameron16126 жыл бұрын

    Pregnancy is horrible, birth is a torture session that makes columbian drug lords cringe, and the risk of death even today in a modern hospital is INSANE. The process has nothing for it and everything against it. If I could go back in time, Id give that poor girl a depo provera shot for a wedding gift omg.

  • @AA-hy6nb

    @AA-hy6nb

    6 жыл бұрын

    You are so right! Even in the richest and the most civilized countries as much as 60% of women get child-birth related traumas, which influence their health for the rest of the life! There are many serious researches about that, provided by big hospitals. As for less civilized or more poor countries,- the report of World Health Organization about the amount of women, dying through the child-birth now, in 21 century, makes the blood freeze! And even in USA lots of newborn babies still leave this world in the first days of life (God bless their poor souls).

  • @ashsqx3246

    @ashsqx3246

    6 жыл бұрын

    agreed!!

  • @snowytiger957

    @snowytiger957

    5 жыл бұрын

    Some women are allergic to DEPO shots like me unfortunately.

  • @intorainbowzOG

    @intorainbowzOG

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh how she would have rejoiced at Nexplanon and an epidural!

  • @itsyourgirlchrissy3878
    @itsyourgirlchrissy38786 жыл бұрын

    Is this on Netflix??

  • @intorainbowzOG

    @intorainbowzOG

    6 жыл бұрын

    Christal Chambers Amazon Prime

  • @ihale12

    @ihale12

    6 жыл бұрын

    Season one is on Netflix !

  • @milliemaihills9462

    @milliemaihills9462

    6 жыл бұрын

    Only half of season one x

  • @leond8549
    @leond85493 жыл бұрын

    Charlotte Bronte finally married after all her brothers and sisters died - none married but CB was so lonely after all the dying she had a good match w/ fellow pastor associate of her father who feared CB, who was shorter & smaller than Victoria, wld never survive a pregnancy - not sure what killed her but it sounds like "terminal morning sickness" which killed both Charlotte and the unborn child in 1855.

  • @chooseyourpoison5105

    @chooseyourpoison5105

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah Charlotte Bronte died of hyperemesis gravidarum, or extreme morning sickness.

  • @maximosdevillenous7220
    @maximosdevillenous72203 жыл бұрын

    Knights inn white satin was written for Victoria 2000 years before Alexander tracked us from Turkey to England then North America (it was written in southern England along the way). So make sure to tell Jenna Coleman so she can reflect upon that in character. I adore the you tube violin cover by Sandy Herrault as much as the song. I know I listen to it More.

  • @kimberleymcgrath9510
    @kimberleymcgrath95104 жыл бұрын

    She used all her 9 lives with her children

  • @barbaradembkowska298
    @barbaradembkowska2982 жыл бұрын

    In witch episode she is pregnant with her 1 child?

  • @cesaltina2841

    @cesaltina2841

    10 ай бұрын

    Épisode 7

  • @robertb4000
    @robertb4000 Жыл бұрын

    Medieval, Tudor 1/3 women died of childbirth While Stuart some of them stayed alive, but their children most are miscarriage and stillbirth. Like queen Anne all of her children miscarriage, stillbirth and 5 died young, total of 17 children, making queen Anne the most pregnancy queen in uk

  • @adrianagflores5587
    @adrianagflores55875 жыл бұрын

    The mortality rate they give is so off . That rate doesn’t even exist and has never existed not even in 3rd world countries.

  • @RMatt2016

    @RMatt2016

    3 жыл бұрын

    It also doesn't account for the fact that they queen had access to the best doctors in the country, perhaps the world.

  • @Deltadivaix
    @Deltadivaix4 жыл бұрын

    Not people, women died in childbirth.

  • @Deltadivaix

    @Deltadivaix

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Kelly Moore idiot, u obviously missed the point.

  • @plantagenetsurvivor8771

    @plantagenetsurvivor8771

    4 жыл бұрын

    Deltadivaix - No. I think you did.

  • @Deltadivaix

    @Deltadivaix

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@plantagenetsurvivor8771 not going to go back and forth with you people on youtube. Agree to disagree. Moving on.

  • @katieanne7450
    @katieanne74506 жыл бұрын

    after a year u can finally stop recommending it, I've watched it r u happy?!?

  • @angrymanwithsillymoustasche
    @angrymanwithsillymoustasche2 жыл бұрын

    This girl is looking like my old school classmate. Cutee

  • @durontooprotiroddho8316
    @durontooprotiroddho83163 жыл бұрын

    What anyone could do at those times Neither condom or pill was invented at those times and It is a natural things for both Men & Women they love Sex

  • @queteimportaa.2535
    @queteimportaa.25356 жыл бұрын

    I always find hilarious how in the shows we see now they put very beautiful and handsome actors while in those times everyone was very ugly

  • @kaisailona685

    @kaisailona685

    6 жыл бұрын

    Alondra Carlo Everyone was ugly ? What the hell are you talking about ? There were slighly different beauty and fashion standards but still loads of people who would be seen as beautiful today. Especially royals and nobles who could afford all kinds of things when it came to appearance.

  • @queteimportaa.2535

    @queteimportaa.2535

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kaïsa Ilona have you seen vintage photos? They were in my opinion very unattractive, yeah some might have been more nicer looking than the rest but not everyone. And paintings don’t show the real face of the person because it was their way of “photoshop”. They went as far as sending small portraits of the brides or grooms to the other half betrothed and when they met in person they usually were very disappointed because the portraits didn’t look like the person.

  • @queteimportaa.2535

    @queteimportaa.2535

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kaïsa Ilona and money can’t buy you a new face in that era 🤨

  • @jeaniep507

    @jeaniep507

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes, Victoria was not a beauty the way Jenna Coleman is but there are plenty of photographs of people who fit into today's definition of "attractive" from that time

  • @Tina06019

    @Tina06019

    5 жыл бұрын

    Um, did you know the long exposure times of the photographic plates in the 19th century required that people NOT SMILE. Those photos are like mug shots. I am a pretty woman, but when someone catches a picture of me with a blank or tired or sour expression, I look pretty bad. You have to be GORGEOUS and perfect to take a good "mug shot."

  • @kkandsims4612
    @kkandsims46123 жыл бұрын

    65% is horrifying

  • @makaelaischillin

    @makaelaischillin

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s not true.

  • @camouflage1136
    @camouflage11362 жыл бұрын

    I don't get, if she inhaled chloroform then dat might have resulted into unconsciousness, then who will beardown to give birth to d child🤔

  • @x_narratorgirl_x4647
    @x_narratorgirl_x46476 жыл бұрын

    when she was pregent in 10 years ago

  • @lilith_287
    @lilith_2875 жыл бұрын

    I wish she and Lord M would be together but I know the right Man for her is Albert

  • @victoriaperkovic4938
    @victoriaperkovic49384 жыл бұрын

    Stop to drama, fake

  • @aditiaella3355
    @aditiaella33557 жыл бұрын

    i dont like the writer

  • @abbisaunders

    @abbisaunders

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hyun ella Good for you.

  • @EmmiKC

    @EmmiKC

    6 жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @wendynishi9696
    @wendynishi96965 жыл бұрын

    65% of women died in childbirth? Yikes!

  • @zenkiea9663
    @zenkiea96634 жыл бұрын

    Some of the main causes of women and babies dying in birth was poor diet, alcholic drinks, not eating entire full meals and near starving yourself because of what your noble upper class dinner guests would think you were being too greedy, and most of all was the corset worn too tightly!

  • @camouflage1136

    @camouflage1136

    2 жыл бұрын

    May b bt at dat time they didn't have any treatment fr following conditions: pelvic disproportion, abnormal lie of baby, wrongly developed placenta,diabetes, hypertension (eclampsia), prolonged labor, decreased bld clot formation causing hemmorhage n many...

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