Hit 90 already

I've maxed out all tech, done half the puzzles, but nothing more than "the baby is reaching for the water" when I put a birthing mom in the lagoon. Am I doing it right, and when it's born, how will I know which it is?

Oh, you'll know!! There are quite a few things that are required for the GC, including several techs and Puzzle 12 (with its pre-req puzzles). You should probably go looking for something else that your villagers can do before you try to produce the GC.

Edit: Corrected a typo on the puzzle number.

Do you have: puzzle 12 and the level 3 of Fertility ?

(PS: if you really want to know, select the text)

Puzzle 12 I just tried and they walked away. I'll try nine now, and sorry about no spoiler.

Ten of them on their way

For the puzzle 12, you need the puzzle 11 and level 3 of spiituality! It's a game made up of episodes

Once you have what laurence has sugested when you drag the villagers to right place then should start that puzzle right away.

Got the garden, put a birthing mom in. Does it matter how many babies? And where are the online highscores?

Here are the VV2 Highscores, VV1 Highscores and the Fish Tycoon Highscores

The hiscores are also located down the left hand side of the site.

Oh ok ty.. I'm 4th in triplets, but I can't get to that, nvm.

Birthing mom in water, she walks out. I kept her in for the 10 minutes till birth, which seemed to hold it off when that was over. Left her to go, restarted the game, and no msg, no puzzle done.

You don't need to keep the mom in the water; it should happen immediately if you have everything you need. At this point, you should probably check the spoilers thread in the VV Guide to make sure that you haven't missed anything.