Birth Birth , also called childbirth , was the start of one ' s life , ( TV : " Listen " , " To the Last Man " ) and a moment that no one remembered . ( TV : " Heaven Sent " ) During the process , a mother would be instructed to push , and a baby would be produced thereafter ( TV : " The Almost People " , " A Good Man Goes to War " ) from her womb . ( TV : " The Lost Boy " ) This was a painful process . ( TV : " The Almost People " , PROSE : " Prologue " ) Some , such as Howarth ' s wife and Agatha Ellis ' mother , died in childbirth . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " , " Curtain Call " ) For years afterwards , birthday s were celebrated on the anniversary of one ' s birth . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " , COMIC : " Party Animals " ) According to Sarah Jane Smith , any human who was born had a navel , but Luke Smith did not , as he was grown by the Bane . ( TV : " Invasion of the Bane " , " The Lost Boy " ) He also consequently had no birthday . ( TV : " Secrets of the Stars " ) In 2011 , five hundred thousand people were born on Earth every day . ( TV : " The New World " ) According to , human being s were born dying . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) Mercy Hartigan commented that " man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live . " ( TV : " The Next Doctor " ) The Ninth Doctor explained to Rose Tyler that a time travel ler could die centuries before they were even born . ( TV : " The Unquiet Dead " ) Nancy was young enough to give birth at age fifteen or sixteen , but it was not socially acceptable at the time . ( TV : " The Doctor Dances " ) For Adipose , birth meant the conversion of a host ' s fat into an Adipose baby . In 2009 , ten thousand Adipose were born in London , and a nursery ship came to collect them . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) When Chris Cwej once found a xenopornographic magazine in one of the TARDIS ' guest rooms , he was reminded of what he saw inside when he saw a gynoid giving birth . ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) It was a crime among Magellans to have a child . When Aphrodite Diamante ' s parent gave birth to her , it was punished by being split in two , each half being put in a different time zone on Earth . ( PROSE : " Emotional Chemistry " ) As Arboretan s existed partly outside of time , when one died , their consciousness travelled back to their birth and they lived their life over again , trying to fix mistakes they had made until they achieved the best life possible . They called this " the path of perfection " . ( PROSE : " Festival of Death " ) Birth certificate s and other forms of record were often kept of a person ' s birth . ( TV : " Ghost Machine " , " The Unicorn and the Wasp " , " The Long Game " , " End of the Road " ) Susan Foreman had a forged birth certificate during her time on Earth in the 1960s . ( PROSE : " Time and Relative " ) Satellite Five had access to the birth certificates , shopping habits and bank statements of everyone on Earth , but they could not find any information on the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler . ( TV : " The Long Game " ) In 1926 , Professor Gerald Peach found Arnold Golightly ' s birth certificate , confirming his suspicions that he was Clemency Eddison ' s son . ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) Clara Oswin Oswald claimed to have been born behind the clock face of Big Ben , accounting for her acute sense of time . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) In 1941 , a teenaged Nancy gave birth to Jamie , but due to her age , she pretended to be his sister . ( TV : " The Doctor Dances " ) For the entire time that Amy Pond was pregnant , she was in fact replaced by a Ganger in her travels with the Eleventh Doctor , while she was truly on Demons Run in the 52nd century . When she was " ready to pop " , the Doctor melted her Ganger body , and her consciousness returned to Demons Run , where she gave birth to Melody . ( TV : " The Almost People " ) Baby Melody was stolen by Madame Kovarian shortly after birth , as a weapon against the Doctor . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) In 2011 , during the Miracle Day crisis , fifty percent of abortion s did not successfully kill fetus es , and so many were born with major gene etic defects . India and mainline China put contraceptive s in the water supply . ( TV : " Dead of Night " ) When Adam Wicks was born in the 22nd century , his father Jimmy drank about eight pint s of tea , and burst out laughing when he was told he had a boy . ( TV : " The Rebel Flesh " ) Thomas and Valerie Brannigan ' s kits were born on the Motorway in 5 , 000 , 000 , 053 , as they couldn ' t stop . ( TV : " Gridlock " )