 Complete the following phrase:  Over the course of twenty years, Maria Theresa gave birth to sixteen children, thirteen of whom survived infancy. The first child, Maria Elisabeth 17371740, was born a little less than a year after the wedding. The childs sex caused great disappointment and so would the births of Maria Anna, the eldest surviving child, and Maria Carolina 17401741. While fighting to preserve her inheritance, Maria Theresa gave birth to a son, Joseph, named after Saint Joseph, to whom she had repeatedly prayed for a male child during the pregcy. Maria Theresas favourite child, Maria Christina, was born on her 25th birthday, four days before the defeat of the Austrian army in 