Eggs: not just a bird thing -- Provisioning: from edible siblings to algal life-support -- Brooding eggs: carry them, sit on them, swallow them whole -- Pregnancy: not just a mammal thing -- Unaccompanied minors: where do the escargot? -- It's just a phase: why babies look like aliens -- Lessons from larvae: how evolution shapes development and vice versa -- Raising them right: conservation and sustainability -- Metamorphosis: but happier than Kafka -- Juveniles: neither one thing nor another -- Emergence: a cicada case study.