***OFFICIAL*** LOST Season 3 Episode 16 Discussion -spoiler free-

[chicken10der]

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OK I have a question. If Ben has never left the island, we can assume he was born on the island.

Yet no mother can come to term with her child before Juliette comes up with her miracle drug. So how the [censored] was Ben born?

[/ QUOTE ]So far it seems that if the child is conceived off the island(but born on the island) everything will be fine. That could've been the case with Ben.

Also suppose you were born in California but moved to the East Coast when you were 6 months old and lived there your entire life. I think its still fair for you to say to someone "I've lived out East my whole life."

Or...Ben was born before "the incident" and they didn't have this problem before then.

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Just to clear up one small point - in 'The Man from Tallahassee', Ben said, "I was born on this island, not many of my people can say that."

So yes, he was born on the island. Where he was conceived is unknown.

Also, in this episode, Juliet mentioned that the problem seems to come from conception.