What the heck is with the spontaneous children showing up.

I think the title says it all. It is kinda annoying to have children suddenly show up.

That is my question. I had the 50 people and twice today when I came back to the game there was a baby, now I have 52 people. Does anyone know how this is happening?

No clue whatsoever. I was here to see if anyone else had the answer to that question. My island max is 50; and so far they've exceeded the island's capacity by having 5 babies on their own without any prompting from me. I'm close to having my eldest person at 969 and decided to dwindle down the population so I don't run out of mushrooms....another baby showed up today. Go figure.

Sometimes when all the tribe is too old to have babies, the children pop up to make sure you have young ones in case your old one die
As far as running out of mushrooms, just mix stardust, seawater and vegetables and use it on the ground..... you'll get 4 mushrooms!

Thank you Palomiuxs, I completely forgot about the mushroom potion. My duh. Makes sense it having children so the tribe doesn't become extinct, however, it's also gone 5 over the island capacity. Over population. Hmm. I've also grown attached to these little people and when Bones is 969 years old that just means more people I'm going to have to let...go to the great tribe in the sky. Including babies.