Your baby's face, made from the mother's and father's photos

When people in Bangladesh search for a baby face from the mother and father photo, they are usually asking a simple thing: show us a child who looks like both of us. That is what an AI baby generator does. FaceCast reads the two faces and creates a new one that takes a little from each, the eyes from one side perhaps, the shape of the lips from the other, a skin tone in between. You see the result twice: once a son, once a daughter.

The picture is imagination, not a test result. It is not made from your 3D ultrasonogram, your blood group or anything a doctor would measure, and it says nothing about the health of the baby. In real families, brothers and sisters with the same parents often look very different, and a newborn's hair, eye colour and even face shape keep changing in the first years. A generated face is one possibility out of countless others. Nobody, not the app and not the most experienced aunt in the family, can say for certain which one your child will turn out to be.

In many Bangladeshi families the mother-to-be spends the last months of pregnancy at her parents' home, surrounded by her own mother, aunts and cousins. That is often when the guessing is loudest. One aunt hopes for the mother's dimples, another expects the curly hair that runs in the father's family, and everyone has a cousin the child is sure to resemble. A picture from the app is a cheerful thing to pass around in those weeks, and the real baby will still surprise everyone.

Families share these images carefully. Some keep them private until after the birth, and some save them for the sadh, the meal many Bengali families arrange for the mother in the seventh month. Others wait for the aqiqah, when Muslim families often announce the baby's name, and put the generated face next to the first real photo. If you post it on Facebook, add a short note that it is an AI picture so relatives far away do not take it for a real baby.