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[Scraggletag]

My female soldiers have been carrying their infants into combat with them, with predictable, disastrous results.

Can we get some sort of crib where infants can be kept safe until they're grown up enough walk on their own?

It should probably be a piece of furniture which is made from wood, like a bed. The cribs could be placed either in the parent's room or you could designate a nursery from the crib.

When a baby dwarf is born, the mother will seek to place it in a crib she owns or an unoccupied crib in the nursery. If a suitable crib is unavailable, she would carry it around as normal.

The infant could periodically generate a "Needs Milk" job. Either the mother could come and breast feed it or another dwarf could bring it some milk from the food stockpile. Similar to how imprisoned dwarves are currently fed.

[peskyninja]

DWARVEN BABYS NEVER DRINK MILK THEY DRINK BOOZE!!

[MystRunner]

I do think this is a great idea, and I fully support it.

[Overman]

My female soldiers have been carrying their infants into combat with them, with predictable, disastrous results.

Number one reason women should not be in the military: who takes care of the baby? Are you really implying that you wish to disrupt the fragile fabric of the family institution? Would you really destroy the most important years of infancy and childhood by removing a mother from the kid?

Alright, maybe not number one reason, but it still counts.

[EnigmaticHat]

My female soldiers have been carrying their infants into combat with them, with predictable, disastrous results.

Number one reason women should not be in the military: who takes care of the baby? Are you really implying that you wish to disrupt the fragile fabric of the family institution? Would you really destroy the most important years of infancy and childhood by removing a mother from the kid?

Alright, maybe not number one reason, but it still counts.

Are you... being sarcastic?  Because what you just said is based entirely on the assumption that all women have babies they need to take care of, which is factually untrue.  Not to mention the father can take care of the baby.

Besides, what you just said has nothing to do with the topic, or DF.   Dwarves have no family institution, they have no problems with females in the military, and they only nominally take care of their children.  You've said that separating the mother and child might not be the number one reason, when (if you were talking about DF, and not your personal politics) it would, by definition, have to be because in DF women's ability to give birth is the only difference between genders.

[sockless]

Well not all societies have a strong family institution. I can't name any in real life of the top of my head, but the most striking example in literature is that of the Redwall series, where all the young are raised communally and not by their parents.

The term for this sort of arrangement is quasisociality, where every member of the society is a reproductive one, but individuals care cooperatively for the entire brood.

[jaxy15]

DWARVEN BABYS NEVER DRINK MILK THEY DRINK BOOZE!!

Dwarven breastmilk IS booze.

[Nightscar982]

So you could Farm Pregnant Dwarves for booze?

I wonder how many Dwarfbucks that would be worth?

[SuicideJunkie]

Where does Dwarven Cheese come from then?

[DrKillPatient]

Seems useful. On the other hand, mothers going insane in combat and murdering everyone is rather amusing.

Where does Dwarven Cheese come from then?

Purring maggots.
...What, you expected something normal?