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The Birth Spell, enables men, or anyone, actually, to give birth to a child by using a specific form of the Spell. Again, this is only achieved with the aid of the indigenous beings, and their contribution is still debated in contemporary times, for with their added magic anyone could have a child—if they “heard” the Spell. A healer or mage could only give them the beginning; the rest would come or not, and no one has ever successfully determined why the spell either completes or doesn’t. (For the curious, the DNA derives from a single parent’s past, or from a blending of both partners if two people handfast and complete the spell.) [1]
On S-d, it's eight months for a pregnancy, because the months are 36 days long. The babe develops somewhere outside of the space/time humans seen, and it gets the nutrients it needs. There is even the possibility that in some sense it "hears" the parents in that time loop. The only thing it doesn't experience is the birth canal--just as children born by c-section don't here.
Why the spell works for some and not for others has long been debated: this is yet another reminder that this world is not a human one. The only constant is that someone wanted the baby--for whatever reasons. One the babe is there, people adjust pretty much the way people now adjust to adoption, or the idea of incubators--or in SF to replicators. [2]
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