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[MrFake]

Lokum Oltarasteb, Peasant has given birth to a girl.
Lokum Oltarasteb, Peasant cancels Store Item in Bin: Seeking Infant.
Lokum Oltarasteb, Peasant cancels Seek Infant: Infant inaccessible.
Eral Oslanbubnus, Baby has drowned.

*sigh* And that baby put the fort population at 300 dwarfs for the first time.


The mother, however, was not in water, but next to a murky pool.  Is it common for babies to rocket out of the dwarven womb?  Or are they just super-dwarvenly fast and can outrun (outcrawl) their own mothers?

I can already see it: a fort built with nothing but exceptionally thin ledges over a large bear pit.  It's raining babies-slash-bear food!!

[Grendus]

I don't think so. It's possible babies spawn in one of the squares next to the mother, which could be a hazardous square. By the time the message gets to me they're always holding the kid, but there seems to be a slight delay between the event and the message (my miners are usually already four z-levels up when I'm told about the magma pipe, for example).

I do know that falls, stuns, and moving water will knock a baby out of it's mother's hands. That's why military moms always spam with "Cancels sparring: seeking infant". My farmer dropped her first (or second, can't remember) baby from the mist generated by the drainage pumps for my drowning pit.

[Sysice]

This ends with, "And they they drowned," doesn't it.

Anyway, yes. The baby spawns on a different square than the mother, AFAIK. This can put the baby anywhere nearby, even off your magmafall.
Also, best idea ever.

[blue emu]

If pregnant Dwarves really do shoot babies out like Rocket Launchers... this gives me an idea for a new weapon.

[GoldenH]

This makes me wonder if mothers who have children on top of brooks will have their babies fall into it, as an extension of the babies-fall-down-stairwells bug.

[docawesome]

Do they just drop them out where ever they happen to be?
Pregnant dwarf: oh hi there I was just-
*THUD*
Mother: Oh! a baby.

[Firnagzen]

*Cough* They do that, yes. Babies seem to appear anywhere in a 3x3 area centered around the mother, at any time. Including, for example, an unconscious military dwarf popping out a baby.

[CompletelySerious]

Unconsciousness is just Dwarven anesthesia. Preferably delivered via large hammer.