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[martinuzz]

Babies make for decent extra protection against arrows and melee weapon attacks (see my sig).
Enlist all mothers into the military!

Also, pop cap and baby cap arent bugged. They just work somewhat differently than you might expect:

pop cap: As soon as you hit the pop cap, the next time the outpost liaison sees that and returns to the mountainhomes to report that, it will stop migrant waves from coming. So yeah, if you hit pop cap in early winter, you will still be getting migrant waves for a year, until the next time the dwarven caravan arrives, and leaves again.

baby cap: As soon as you hit the absolute or relative cap, no new pregnancies will occur. Dwarves that are already pregnant will still give birth though.

[Girlinhat]

Alternatively, cull all the mothers, or cull their husbands.  They never re-marry.

[Splint]

Look at this not as a child invasion, but an opprotunity. Goblins will send snatcher, who'll happily relieve you of the little buggers.

Alternativly, said child bait can be used to draw in trap testers.

[Broseph Stalin]

I found an interesting solution, build a well of unlife and after all of your dorves drink from it everyone except the babies should be vampires. Unleash zombies into your fortress, they'll go about killing the babies and ignoring the adults.

[martinuzz]

If you're going to turn all your dwarves into vampires, you might as well let the kids live long enough to be drained dry by them.

[Girlinhat]

Will a mother drain her own child?

[Broseph Stalin]

Will a mother drain her own child?

I've never seen a baby get drained but family members don't have any compunctions about killing each other.

[Daveorock]

Don't have any vamps on this fort, if I did I would already have performed !!science!!. (I'm sure I don't have any, I've checked the history of all my migrants, their items, and the nickname bug, also nobody has been found dead so...)