If a nursing mother dies, the baby dies too. That's the risk of allowing the elderly women to become mothers. Since the baby had not survived long enough to have its own identity, you will see only one tombstone.

Did Itchi, by any chance, drink the contents of a phial at any time? One of the side-effects of becoming young again is that any baby born during her period of "re-aging" will be nursed until the effects of the liquid have completely worn off.

The speed at which research points is accumulated increases in three ways: each scientist produces more points as they gain research experience, growing the population allows you to have more researchers, and higher levels of village science technology increase the number of research points that each villager produces.

LDW is developing an update to Village Sim that will contain some of the most-requested new features. Arthur will post an announcment on their site when it's ready for release.