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[miauw62]

My vote is that the [STERILE] tag aborts the pregnancy.

Mayby a meat syndrome?
You could have a meat factory that produces poison meat out of micronline, and it adds the [STERILE] tag or so.
Not too hard.

[Sutremaine]

My vote is that [STERILE] affects only the 'can get pregnant' flag and doesn't touch existing pregnancies.

[Urist McGyver]

Haunted forest? Newbie? Jesus, you're crazy!

If you're playing the newest version, the dificulties to play in the biomes are as follows:

Sinister: You got rains and mists that melt you
Haunted: You got rains and mists that melt you, plus you get wilderness monsters coming for ya
Terrifying: You're crazy. Undead ogres. Good luck.

[wanzerm23]

I didn't think it was that crazy.  I mean, I had done two forts before it! haha!

[wanzerm23]

So I picked up a caged leopard and honey badger.  I was wondering how the hell I can weaponize these two animals.  I an't seem to train them.  Could I just tie them up to a post at the entrance of my fort?

[Girlinhat]

Did you pick them up from elves?  If so, they are tamed already.  If they're wild, you could mod them to [PET].  The only way to tame them is with a dungeon master, and that noble is broken, so everyone mods them to [PET] instead.

Once tame, just put them in a cage near the entrance and release when greenskins come knocking.  Or pasture them near the entrance.

[krenshala]

I'm a big fan of pasturing dogs/whatever at the entrance after trying it, and have been using it since just before 0.34 came out.  Thank you to whoever it was I saw post the idea. Thank you!

I checked, and one of my dwarves had a second child almost exactly 9 months after the first (both born in the fortress).

Something nobody else has mentioned is that dwarves do not remarry (that I have seen or heard about).  This means that if a mother is cranking out too many Dwarf-Child-does-what-it-pleases, knock off her spouse and she'll breed no more (assuming that for some reason you don't want to knock her into the magma moat or under the about to be lowered drawbridge "accidentally").

As for walling themselves in, the others have posted the basics: they want to build from the W, N, E then S, in that order, and designating something else on a particular tile unually keeps them from standing on it when building.  A more reliable method, that requires more micromanagement, is to closely watch as they approach to build a particular item that will cause them to get stuck, and suspend the build job after they have started, so the item is placed, but before they complete it and wall themselves in.  Once they have walked to safety, unsuspend the job and they will walk up to it and they (or another dwarf) will immediately get to work from whichever side they arrived at.  I have been having no issues with this method, other than remembering to only enable the "dangerous" builds when i'm able to monitor their progress closely (I swear, my 6yo son is less management intensive ).

[wanzerm23]

Did you pick them up from elves?  If so, they are tamed already.  If they're wild, you could mod them to [PET].  The only way to tame them is with a dungeon master, and that noble is broken, so everyone mods them to [PET] instead.

Once tame, just put them in a cage near the entrance and release when greenskins come knocking.  Or pasture them near the entrance.

I figured out how to make the leopard into a war leopard, so I went ahead and did that.  I chained the honey badger to the front entrance, just to tell the world that we don't give a shit, we're just crazy.

[Rafal99]

Getting a dwarf to STARVING or DEHYDRATED state may cause miscarriage btw.

Alternatively set CHILD_CAP in the init. You will still get migrant children though.

[Girlinhat]

Which is fairly easy to do, if you burrow them away from food stockpiles.  They'll leave a burrow to save their lives and eat, but will stay put until starving/dehydrated.