Victoria's children

Victoria wrote about her pregnancies in her diaries: she didn't like being pregnant and wrote newborn babies were ugly. Victoria and Albert's first child, a girl they named Victoria, was born in November 1840. Victoria and Albert had nine children together; her first son, Albert Edward, became king when Queen Victoria died. When her 8th and 9th babies were born, Queen Victoria used special new medical invention called chloroform. Thanks to Victoria, chloroform became quite popular, which helped many other women when they were having babies.