Revealed! Where babies come from!

In this startling time-lapse video, we see life's wonder unfold as a brave couple bare the entire process of making a baby, from fertilization to gestation to birth. Science!

Como Hacer un Bebe | How to make a baby (Thanks, Elmar!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Anonymous

This is clearly fake and Photoshoped. Everybody KNOWS that the Storks bring the Babies…
Anonymous

Holy Cow on an Altar! That’s so funny. My 8th grade teacher lied to me! You get pregnant by having a guy blow on your finger!
*feels so lied to*

This is some genius stop-motion animation. Who made it? Was it for a class, or just for fun? Muy interesante, chicka.
doktor tchock

lovely touch with the curtains blowing along in the right corner.
Anonymous

Amazing!!!
Great piece :)
PeaceNerd

In nine months, you didn’t touch a single one of those books in the case? Time to freecycle some of that stuff…
Anonymous

wow….looks like i did it the wrong way *sigh*
Anonymous

I thought blowing was supposed to prevent babies
Anonymous

I have six kids. You mean we did that the HARD WAY!
Anonymous

bad stumbleupon!
brainharness

Sadly, not a single book on the bookshelves was disturbed during the entire nine months. Or, Cassidy and Raquel are very good about always putting things back where they came from (except babies!).
Anonymous

This should have had a SPOILER ALERT tag!
Anonymous

I want to have another one baby this way !
benhammondmusic

I knew you could get pregnant from ‘blow’ jobs.
sisyphus321

Wow – we really did it wrong! Twice!
Cefeida

:D love the video.

And geez, people. The bookshelf is composited in. What are you trying to do, prove the authors are illiterate? Leave them alone. You don’t even know what’s on that bookshelf, and if they don’t have five others around the house that they DO pick from often. Or maybe they read e-books. Or maybe you ought to have better things to do than nitpick dumb stuff like that.
Halloween Jack

I’ve been lied to.
Takuan

you mean the nuns were telling the truth?
UncommonSense

Should have been flagged NSFW… very graphic. Keep it in the bedroom people!
Anonymous

Cutest baby ever by the way
Anonymous

I believe pulling the finger produces a child of the opposite sex (:
fuzzheadgha

Now that is dedication! I’m watching this on the set of a stop-motion film, and it certainly puts our long waiting times between takes into perspective.
ophmarketing

@#16: If you go to the second link the creators provided in post #6, they admit they ‘cheated’ bit, layering in the books and curtains separately, because in the original shots, they got to be too distracting (presumably because they changed rapidly right along with the people).
Anonymous

awesome! Extremly cool
ophmarketing

Whoops. Sorry. That description is in the FIRST link, not the second one.
Anonymous

At least he didn’t pull her finger.
Anonymous

This was cute! Even better all the comments!!
Doran

We need some kind of unicorn chaser for uber-cute posts.
otherthings

Hi Cory! Glad you liked our video!

But can you do us a favor? Please link to our original video, not the poor-quality copy above! That copy was posted on YouTube by a well-meaning stranger. The original looks much better. You can find it here:

http://otherthings.com/howtobaby

And there’s an embeddable version here:

http://otherthings.blip.tv/file/1658991?filename=Otherthings-HowToMakeABaby208.m4v

Thanks!

-Cassidy and Raquel
Anonymous

if it were only this fun and painless! Great Job Ty for sharing
Ratdog

From the look of it, the baby is thinking “What the hell just happened?”
Beryllium

*I* know the truth. No one believes me, but I’ve seen it with my own eyes – I even have photographic proof.

Babies come from teh babby market.

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090325/i/r2420629709.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=4tBegvjcGvyYn6Y7MHxuuw–
jfrancis

http://eyestilts.com/intro.html
Kari

The pope was right – condoms ARE useless.
Rubber gloves, however!
mmbb

disgustingly cute
Anonymous

Very well done.
Anonymous

Well that’s 9 months well spent!
DeWynken

Excellent! I played it for my 5 year old daughter and her 5 year old cousin before they left for school. I’m sure it’ll make for an interesting day for their teachers :)
Anonymous

warebdastork?
canna

Ohhh, so that’s how babby formed.
Anonymous

They just squashed everything I was ever told. I really really believed that the stork was responsible. I am forever crushed. LMAO-no.ROFLMAO.
Ratdog

I find this deeply disturbing.

I just don’t know what is real anymore…
Anonymous

so stalks dont bring the baby hmmm thats where my mum was wrong
angusm

Scientifically inaccurate – fails to show the crucial contribution made by the stork.
Anonymous

Obviously photoshopped, you can tell from the pixels
Anonymous

…so the man gives the blow job?
Ratdog

I agree with ANGUSM, I always thought a stork was involved.
alisong76

Someone needs to show the video to this guy:

http://failblog.org/2009/04/20/sex-ed-fail-2/
Anonymous

If you really want to know “The True Story of How Babies Are Made: http://www.sexsmartfilms.com/
Anonymous

your baby is sooo adorable omg

great video!!!
Anonymous

awww that was awesome..
Anonymous

I STILL believe they are left under cabbage leaves…NO WAY you’ll convince me this pornographic stuff is true !
Anonymous

Obviously ‘shopped, you can tell by teh pixels.
Anonymous

We have been lied to.