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[A Dwarven Smokeologist]

Really?
I always assumed dwarf babies did something like spoiler below when being carried around and just absorbed nourishment.

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[Deon]

Thankfully, no. Hehe, a good reference to Total Recall though . I liked it when I was a boy.

[Drinkwound]

I love this forum. I leave after dropping a random, kinda "i haven't had enough sleep lately/its 3 am" type post and I come back to the conclusion that dwarves might be marsupials.

Also:

Migrants are either recruited and trained, or sent to work in the smeltery or hauling crap around. I LIKE having lots of dwarves.

"There aint no water in Drinkwound"-Drinkwound

You see, Drinkwound was my first marginally successful fort, despite the fact that I didnt know how to work the still for the first 2 or 3 years and there was neither rain nor a river.

I could not spare the water or food required to keep additional unnecessary dwarves alive.

[Doomshifter]

Perhaps babies have some sort of strange ability to magnetically cling to their mothers? After all, last time I played Kobold Camp, two of my kobolds had five pups hanging off of each of them. Utterly adorable to imagine all these little babies just hanging off of anything they can old onto. =3

[arghy]

Going with the beard/body hair idea since it makes sense to have them near the mouth getting all the food in the beard--you shoot a dwarf in the chest and thats where the baby is hanging on hence why babys are arrow shields.

[BlazingDav]

Perhaps babies have some sort of strange ability to magnetically cling to their mothers? After all, last time I played Kobold Camp, two of my kobolds had five pups hanging off of each of them. Utterly adorable to imagine all these little babies just hanging off of anything they can old onto. =3

This inspires a reason for why there is no adoption, babies simply can't latch onto those without a significant relation to them (i.e. the mother) dwarven adoption ceremonies simply don't exist yet where crazy dwarftech, herbology and magic is needed to create this artificial relationship allowing the baby to stick to its new parent and be supported.

Though maybe itd be easier to implement beard trimming barbers and force a dwarf to cut a hole in their beloved beard where the baby can go in.

[xdarkcodex]

Just throw the baby to a pack of wolves.Check back on the baby 12 years later.

[Deon]

Just throw the baby to a pack of wolves.Check back on the baby 12 years later.

Dwarven Mowgli?

[Vester]

Wait five more years.

If he's physically strong enough to break Tarzan in half over his knee by then, then he's definitely Dwarven Mowgli.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Just throw the baby to a pack of wolves.Check back on the baby 12 years later.

Then watch as he kills his brother and founds a major city?

(This is how I'm different from everyone else:  Yall think "Jungle Book", I think Roman mythology.) 

[ein]

Just throw the baby to a pack of wolves.Check back on the baby 12 years later.

Then watch as he kills his brother and founds a major city?

(This is how I'm different from everyone else:  Yall think "Jungle Book", I think Roman mythology.) 

That's what I jumped to also.

[Rowanas]

Yep, me too. Maybe because I've had to restart Centurion (the old sega game) about a thousand times today. Damn those parthians!

[Drinkwound]

Ya, Im in scouts so the whole jungle book thing came to mind.

(I dont know about everywhere else, but here in Canada the cub (the bit before scouts, for peoplr 7-11 years old) program is oriented (loosely for the most part) around the Jungle book.)

[Heliman]

Seems to me more like the baby pocket is in their skin.

[Rowanas]

Ya, Im in scouts so the whole jungle book thing came to mind.

(I dont know about everywhere else, but here in Canada the cub (the bit before scouts, for peoplr 7-11 years old) program is oriented (loosely for the most part) around the Jungle book.)

Yeah, the dude who set it up was heavily influenced by the Jungle Book. I was a cub, scout and sea scout before I left Cornwall, so I know where you're coming from .