Make your future baby's face from two pictures

A baby generator is an app that takes two pictures, one of the mother and one of the father, and creates a new face that has something of both. FaceCast looks at the eyes and eyebrows, the nose and lips, the shape of the face, the skin tone and the hair in each picture, and blends them into a child. It gives you a boy and a girl every time. The result is an image of a child who could be yours, imagined from your two faces, not a picture of the baby you will actually have.

Because it works only from those two pictures, the app knows nothing about the pregnancy itself. It cannot check the baby's growth or health, and it is not a substitute for the anomaly scan or any other test your doctor recommends. The face it creates is one possibility. In real life a child may take Abbu's eyebrows and a grandmother's smile and nothing that anyone guessed, and many babies look quite different at one year old than they did at birth.

In Pakistani homes, the question of who the baby will resemble belongs to the whole khandaan. Dadi expects the child to look like her son did as a boy, Nani notices her own family's features in every scan picture, and the phuppos and khalas all have opinions of their own. A generated face gives everyone something cheerful to look at while they wait. It will not end the debate, and that is probably for the best. Half the joy of a new baby in the family is everyone finding themselves in that small face, whatever the picture showed beforehand.

Families usually share such pictures quietly, in a WhatsApp group or with close relatives, rather than on public pages. Some couples keep the boy and girl results to compare with the real baby after the azaan has been said in the newborn's ear and the aqiqah has been held. If you do post one, mention that it is an AI image, so that relatives abroad are not confused and so nobody starts planning a mithai order too early.