Despite how often we, uh, mate - birth rates are very low. A Siren can birth another species child quite easily - a ritual cast by Physical or Spiritual mages switches the usually dominant genes of a Siren to recessive. Those birth rates are perfectly fine, and can happen quite frequently. Its such a shame that we can't have our own children so often...

Either way. It may come as a surprise to most, but we lay eggs! Even with species that normally have live births - we still birth them in eggs. The shell around the child, no matter the species, is highly sort after by crafters and collectors alike - the material is almost crystalline in nature, and can be made into armour or jewelry for the rich. Simply looking at the bead on my tail is a good example - our soul beads are made from our own egg! All of our eggs have the same properties of the bead; its only missing the magic which comes from our own calling. I'm sure that with the right ritual we could lay empty eggs, simply producing them for the shell - but it would take effort for such a spell to be found, effort that most Sirens are too busy to give.

The pregnancy and incubation process for us is...uncomfortable. We start lactating a couple of days into the pregnancy, our bellies swelling in size at an incredibly fast rate. We lay our eggs after a month of this; one to three eggs in a normal clutch. That in itself is...fun, I'm sure. After that, we have to incubate the egg, usually feeding it a large amount of our magic per day. It can be very tiring. It depends on the species hatching on how long this incubation goes on for - it generally lasts as long as the creatures natural pregnancy - for example, a Siren giving birth to a human would have a nine month incubation time. Either way, once we have laid at least one egg we will always lactate - no stopping our milk! - so generally a mother will get one of our ritual piercings that prevent leakage on each nipple...

Mmm? Oh, is that why I have these nipple piercings, you ask? The answer is no - mine are magic and can easily be imbued with that power once I do become a mother, but for now they are cosmetic. I am both lucky and unfortunate enough to have not been bred...yet.