If my memory serves, in real life there weren't hundreds, only seven (including the Home Secretary) and they were in a drawing-room further down the corridor. But yeah, they could probably still hear the yelling from their drawing-room. I can't believe that it wasn't until 1948 when the then Princess Elizabeth was expecting her first baby, that her father George VI finally put his foot down and declared there would be no witnesses, saying "I hardly think that necessary - out-of-date and ridiculous."

@@theshillneckedlizard8364 ok hundreds was a bad exaggeration

Siren's song

I had natural childbirth and I promise you whoever was in that room would have gotten an earful of unlady-like staements would have been hurled at them! They may have worried about the state of my husband's health since he was in the room with me!

As if you care at that moment you just want to deliver

Given that Leopold's first wife (Princess Charlotte, who was heir prior to Victoria) died in childbirth along with their son, I have to wonder if he was equally worried about the outcome as his sister was happy for Victoria.

@@emileehicks5093 oh, most definitely! That is an interesting thought.

Her mother did help her give birth to a baby girl.

Literally me too!

It went no further with the show you mean?

Selena's song

@@santangelogaia19 I read that Jenna & her costar (I can't remember his name at the moment) lived together for awhile but then they broke up. Am I wrong about it?

@@santangelogaia19 No, in their private lives.

Her mother wasn't there in real life. Nor did Albert kick anyone out, because in real life there wasn't dozens of people in the next room, there was only seven and they were in a drawing-room down the hall

What pillow smack?

@@ramonpacheco4534 in the very beginning she hit him with a pillow when he wouldn’t wake up

Hahaha I see it too

She is the queen 👑💍👸💅✊

Yeah, a queen in labor with an heir, of course Albert should care!

It's coming back in 2022

Yahhh ihope they get back together

@@ameliamccollister9455 omg ihope so💓💓love this series

@@ameliamccollister9455 where did you find this out?? Please tell me it’s true

@@aelinisbae according to there official site

Literally tho!! Jenna is awesome ❤

Also medics didnt understand female anatomy well yet. But they did invent pain relievers by this time, and she made them accesible to childbirths.

@@yubima only with two last, not with Princess Victoria

@@yubima she didn’t use it until one of her last births

Victoria wasn't a natural mother - her relationships with her kids were quite strained, and after Albert died she was almost manipulatively clingy with them, especially Princess Victoria. The part she enjoyed about this side of her life was the "intimacy" with Albert. I've got no doubt in my mind that if contraception had existed back then, there's a good chance she would've only had Victoria and Albert at most....

@@LilyGrace95 I do know there were condoms made of sheep stomachs used in Victoria's time. However, condoms weren't exactly viewed highly by the church and possibly society to some extent. When Victoria asks a doctor how can she avoid having more kids the doctor told her to basically stop having sex.

She loved Albert from the moment she laid eye on him, she called him her angel. :)

@@Timetravel1819 she got him as her husband. I wish every girl to be that lucky

Marie Antoinette had so many people in the room when she gave birth the first time that she passed out from the combined body heat

@@gothgirlgaming9050 right the king had to open a window

What is an array name

I read about that it was soo sad and before she had miscarriages. Apparently the baby boy was too big he was a stillborn then she died. The husband was distraught he didn’t marry for a long time. That caused the king’s brother at the time to dismiss his mistress marry and have Victoria.

No, there were actually only four people in the room when Victoria gave birth to Vicky. Victoria, Albert, Dr Snow and Mrs Lilly the midwife. Her mother wasn't there in real life.

@@theshillneckedlizard8364 wasn't the doctor's name Locock? And during her first two births also her former governess, baroness Louise Lehzen was with her.

Snow discovered the cause of the cholera epidemic

@@Magdalenkaization Oops you're right my bad. I'll edit

I mean I understand there's a big thing right there but FIND A WAY MY LADIES.

I'm pretty sure Dr Locock would have checked things out every so often, but the birth assistants aren't down there at the foot of the bed all the time. I know when I had my babies the midwife would take a look every half hour or so, but the rest of the time she was helping me to walk up and down, checking the babies heartbeat, adjusting the pain relief, writing on the chart, taking my blood pressure, and the dozens of other jobs that monitoring someone in labour entails. They don't just sit and wait down at the business end.

Same question

There’s still people today who go through childbirths that long. But I too find it hard to imagine how exhausting and excruciating that would be. I thank God every day for epidural anesthesia.

They had midwives and doctors

There's no blood before birth and if so, something is going wrong. I know what l'm talking about. I gave birth 4 times and each time there was no time for painkillers. But she did a beautiful...to me the only true-feeling movie birth

What's depicted in the video is mainly creative liberty in portraying labor and birth in a "family friendly" way... Women usually paced around during labour being confined like that to bad looks unrealistic unless the mother is very exhausted and can't walk

@@StratospheralNurse Absolutely. Epidurals rock!

What

I did it 4x nowadays with no painkillers bc it all went too fast each time. 3h, 2,5h, 1,5h and last took 40 mon from 0 to birth

Childbirth should be with the doctor and nurses and necessary people not a lot come on.

Victoria eventually got to use chloroform during childbirth, which made it popular.

Her Mother was Marie Louise Victoire of Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld Duchess of Kent .

The first time she was.

Every woman is scared. Scared of the unknown in this case as it was her first, scared that the baby would be born alive, scared that she would live herself whether the baby survived or not. Victoria had "conscious sedation" during her last 3 children. This was a few drops of ether on a cloth that a woman would breathe sparingly. This relieved the pain but she was awake enough to move her legs & push. Before that ether would knock a woman out making it difficult to impossible to deliver a child. Mortality rates of babies was 20%. A rise in intervention during childbirth came after tragedy in 1817. Princess Charlotte died 5 hours after a 50 hour labor and stillbirth. All Britain mourned and blame fell on Dr. Croft who later committed suicide. This was when forceps were introduced. There were no episiotomies so women could tear during the birth process giving another chance for infection and death for the mother. Antibiotics were not discovered until the 1920's. As to getting pregnant 8 more times, there was no birth control, even the rhythm method wasn't figured out then. The article I linked said if a couple had "affection for each other", as Victoria & Albert were, a woman could expect to get pregnant every 18 to 24 months. Side note, I think it could be sooner than that. I have an cousin who was devoted RCC, gave birth to her 1st child in September 2000. 13 months later, she gave birth to her 2nd child in October 2001, and 14 months after that, she gave birth to her 3rd child in December 2002! That's only 3 - 4 months between pregnancies! She must have just gotten over her postpartum bleeding when she & her husband were at it again! Imagine how horrible her postpartum depression must have been like! Neither her body nor hormones got the chance to right themselves before she was pregnant again! Sheesh! Even affluent women had midwives who didn't know much about the process. Hand washing was unheard of and the pre-natal practices for the mother was horrific! Pieces of placenta were left in the womb causing infection & death. Fresh air in the birthing room seemed evil by the doctors so all Drapes were drawn, bed curtains as well, a fire was built, then with all of the people pressed in the air became thick & foul. Exercise was strictly forbidden and a woman would lie in bed with only liquids & thin broths for food, causing bowel stoppage which the doctors would then purge the woman with mustard enemas, bleed her, give her emetics to cause vomiting! It's a wonder any mother & child survived! If you want to read about birthing in Victorian times see this site, tinyurl.com/ycyxth9h. Be thankful ladies, that the medical community has evolved and midwives started washing their hands and stopped making Pap to feed the baby by chewing bread w/milk or water & spitting it into a bowl. This was fed to the newborn because the was too weak to have milk or had died. Doctor's found wet nurses for the more affluent mothers because they wouldn't nurse their babies. I had natural childbirth to deliver my twins, with much headshaking by my mother who didn't understand why it was so important to me to see mine come into the world. My husband, sister & mother was with me in both labor & delivery rooms. My mother later said that it was a learning experience for her as she was gassed with my siblings and me. She saw us for the 1st time after we were delivered, cleaned and swaddled, approximately an hour or so later. Our dad saw us before she did through the nursery window! If I had been in Victorian times, the chances for both of my babies to have survived was 15%, the chance that one would have survived, 20% and my chance to have survived, 50%. There was a practice with twins being born among impoverished families that I will not discuss as it was heinous. You can look it up yourselves if you want. Thank goodness modern Obstetrics & Pediatrics were discovered!

@@lucidarose613 Yes and no. She was apprehensive about the birth (the fate of her cousin Princess Charlotte was uppermost in her mind) but wrote in her journal that she was "not at all nervous once it began."

@@kathrynswynford I had read the opposite? That she asked Sir James if there were any reliable way she could continue to have sex with Albert without the inevitable pregnancies and Sir James had told her there was not. Some women adore being pregnant, Victoria decidedly did not.

@Ivana Well now. Elaborate please. Start off by telling us jow many times you yourself have experienced pregnancy and birth in identical conditions. You DO know that there was no real way to prevent pregnancy then, RIGHT? It is established fact. And you DO know that the various forms of pain relief used today (including Lamaze breathing techniques) were unknown then, RIGHT? Also Vicky was not an acceptable heir. (The circumstances of Victoria inheriting the throne were unique). She HAD to have at LEAST two boys: the classic "heir and a spare", and preferably more.. You DO know that simple fact of European history, yes? Don't go "21st-century-splaining" the 19th century experience of royal childbirth. Have a nice day.

How else would Albert get inside?

In real life Albert was by her side during the whole thing, he didn't come charging in during the birth. And there was only four people in the room - Victoria, Albert, Dr Snow and Mrs Lilly the midwife. The others were in a drawing-room down the corridor, not right in the next room.

@@chooseyourpoison5105 That’s really nice. He was supportive of her the whole way through. I am so glad we have overall reliable pain relief now a days.

@@IsabellaL9659 Yeah, people say how supportive and modern-thinking it was of Prince Philip to be by Queen Elizabeth's side as she gave birth to Edward, forgetting that Albert had already done it 100 years previously 🤣

@@chooseyourpoison5105 i know right. And of course for certain times you can call it modern but personally it just feels so wrong to not be their for your spouse when they going through some of the worst pain of their life. Especially if they are doing that for you to birth your child. I call it being a loving husband or a good partner rather than modern, it just feels like the natural thing to do for your spouse. It feels weird they did not do that all the time.

Fortunately we have access to pain relief today. Epidurals are the best thing since sliced bread in my opinion. I had epidurals with all my children and I highly recommend them!

PBS I think

That's not a full ending their having a new season that's why u think it's not completely great the end

But wasn't it cancelled

@@yukiasiandream7483 no they will continue it

When

@@yukiasiandream7483 idk what date but they would release it in 2022 ithink

Wow you’re kinda royalty then

No. Motherhood didn't come easily to her, but she did love her children.

@@glamourchick21 I think that's questionable.