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Sent this to some friends and a good point came up that the kids would be too short to reach the chest and too heavy to carry, so probably the bottom ones would be mostly used
Horses can walk within an hour after being born, but a newborn human can’t even hold their heads up.
So I guess the real question is whether centaurs are born foal size with toddler torsos or baby size with tiny horse bodies
Since they're born from the horse end, they could have horse like gestation. So they can probably hang out in the womb about 2 months longer. Not a huge difference for humans. However if we're assuming they are a product of evolution, it would stand to reason that they could have accelerated growth compared to humans. Add in that centaurs are generally omnivorous, you get a higher density of nutrients consumed. It's possible that the longer gestation, plus more nutrient dense diet, plus some evolutionary shenanigans (centaurs maybe did have toddler heads and horse bodies, but those just died out), they could end up being born with enough back and neck strength to keep themselves upright.
But we're also talking about centaurs so the answer is probably fuckin magic I guess