You guys know that this is an absolute no-tolerance taboo to discuss, right?

Anyways, do any of you remember that women are the ones who bear children? For, you know, the PC can be female.
Pregnant Dragonborn to the rescue!

That's pretty advanced stuff. Can we be sure that artificial insemination exists in the series' canon?

Wait, no, I'm sold on pregnancy now.

You can ask Calcelmo, or do some weird magic thing.. Or they add a new Dragon shout.. Force - Birth - Other... Upon using the person who is struck automatically gets pregnant..

" No , I'm not evil at all ! "

Really , let's stay on-topic..

You know those beds in the dwemer ruins that have those spikes that come down over them?

Yeah, I think they might be for that. That'd explain why Calcelmo might be interested in them!

It's mostly a technical issue I think, rather than this. Having a few pre-made children NPCs is a lot easier than creating new game functions that makes it possible for the game to generate a new child NPC which is a mix of the player character and their other half.

With the way game censorship is going, six scenes, tubs of blood and gore, etc. Eventually it will come to live uncensored Argonian birth.

Right. Let's put things into perspective: we who wanted our characters to be able to marry and start families are a relative minority.

Creating all of the game mechanics necessary for natural reproduction would be a colossal undertaking for Bethesda's programmers. Given all of the different demands for DLC (look at all the people who were upset that Hearthfire was about building homes rather than quests and fighting), devoting all that time and effort to meet the demands of so few is uneconomical.

Adoption, by contrast, is simplistic. A few new recorded lines, and character repositioning that a modder could handle. Hearthfire is really about the house-building, with adoption thrown in because it's easy and fits the theme.

you have fun

Obviously it should be done like Fable. Get busy, baby pops out, go away for a few weeks, babby is kid. Cause thats how it happens naturally...right?

no...its going the other way?

in the next tes it will be be fully child-friendly , picking up a weapon will incur a 40 - minutes on the naughty step bountypunishment and the main quest will feature you becoming the brightest kid at the school

And your race options will include Barney, Hello Kitty, Big Bird, and seven other equally obnoxious creatures. And instaed of horses, you'll ride around the province on Thomas the Tank Engine.

Personally, I'm glad they did it the way they did. We who want to go the Cozy Domestic roaad in Skyrim can marry, adopt, build our house, and it won't get in the way of the game's real objective of delving dungeons, doing quests, fighting dragons, and slaughtering the occasional bunny.

For those who insist on natural childbirth, well, I guess you'll have to play Fable or Sims.

Turns out the Dovahkiin (male or female) are, ahem, not quite equipped for natural conception. As soon as you say Fus-Ro-Dah, your little boys and girls disappear off next door in search of a quieter life; one that doesn't involve the risk of a charred ending if the Dovahkiin jumps a fraction of a second too late or does the splits when drunk over a smouldering campfire.

No, natural birth would not work in Skyrim. Firstly, the issue of a great many people DYING from childbirth during the medieval age. I really don't see Aela dying from childbirth. But that's just a nitpick. The major issue is what everyone said: 9 month pregnancy.

In the Sims, it works. It's a goofy game and three day pregnancy actually does scale pretty well with the fact that the lifespan of most Sims are 100 days in the setting I used to play the Sims 3 on. But in Skyrim, it's a gritty, realistic game. Of course, if we do a 30:1 scale like for the time of day, it will only take 9 days. Unless I'm calculating something wrong. But still:

Female Dovahkiin. Either you'll have to make the game pass 9 days by waiting/cut scene or a female Dovahkiin will fight on in the third trimester. Able to fight dozens of Stormcloaks or Imperial soldiers when her belly looks like it's about to explode. She'll probably go into labor on top of a dragon trying to stab it to death.

Of course, male Dovahkiins could get come great quests that involve fetching massive quantities of skeever tail gorditas and mammoth cheese/peanut butter stews for their... delightful... pregnant spouses.

New Quest Added

Survive Pregnancy

This is so stupid, im not against gay couples but saying 'We can't add natural birth into the game because its unfair on real life gay couples' is stupid, can gay couples create babies between themselves in real life? No, and its not 'unfair', its logic...

I would not have a child, adopted or not, on my main character, but on another, i would happily wait the 9 months it takes for the child to be born...

Exactly , same gender couples won't stop me from having children..

Ooh, and then there could be the post-birth fun. After the kid is born, every time you try to sleep, the game won't let you.

Then potty training...

I FEEL YOU MAN
exacly my toughts when i saw the trailer

i want to raise my own blood
and continue the dragonborns legacy

I was hoping my characters hubby would have a baby. I'm a warrior, I've no time to make babies. I hope he does dishes and scrubs floors too and meets me at the door with some brandy. Nah, I think adoption would work for everyone who plays and quite honestly it works pretty well in real life as well.

Tackling the points that I see raised a few times:

1. Childbirth is dangerous: This is not a medieval world, this is a fantasy world where you can survive being hacked by a Draugr Deathlord, using just a healing potion. I think she'll be fine.

2. Pregnancy for female Dovahkiin: Again, fantasy world of the uber-powerful female dovahkiin. Also in RL, women don't sit around all day for 9 months while they're pregnant. And there might be 3-4 months when you will have a big belly, but that doesn't mean you can't do anything. I know lots of women who are active through their pregnancies. There are maybe only a couple of months where it might be inadvisable but otherwise activity is not necessarily bad for pregnancy.

As lots of people have suggested, you could just have a loading screen skipping the last 2-3 awkward months of pregnancy.

3. Babies: Yes, Bethesda will have to create babies for us to have.

4. Aging: In Fable, there is a baby stage for your kid, then after enough time has passed, the next time you see your baby, he/she has turned into a kid. There was a small moment where you suspended disbelief but it didn't seem silly to me.

5. Baby races: The book Racial Phylogeny covers that. This is I think where the main problem is. I'm assuming it will be a lot of work for Bethesda to create Argonian/Orc/Khajit/Elf babies and then kids.

My damn dungeons would respawn, that's what would happen.

GUYS THERE IS A WAY TO DO THIS

just imagine it
ITS SIMPLE but works for me
i just think they are my blood and flesh
unless someone makes a mod for it

i suggest you do this

My character was made barren during her time imprisoned. Her only option is adoption. Dennis and Joe were unable to have a baby since they were both men. Brian took an arrow to what some thought was the knee and made incapable of producing a child.

The engine doesn't support "ageing" so any birthed child would show up at about age 10. How would we account for "the missing years?"

I think adoption solves more issues than it creates problems and I want them to spend the time on making a bigger and beefier and more awesome DLC next time around rather than spend the time it would take to address all the issues of having natural childbirth in a game (it wasn't that much fun in real life to tell the truth). For the cost of this DLC it will have much more content than a big mac some scarf down in 3.5 seconds.