The developing foetuses, conceived on the Island (we already know from the Jin and Sun example that the sperm count is much higher and the sperm perhaps different somehow) EXPERIENCE TIME-SWITCHING - - - the "sickness". And thus die because they can't establish a constant (other than the confines of the womb), killing the mother in the process.
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