How to say "had a child" So, I know that 出生 means to birth or "To give birth"  - but what if I want to casually say that my friend (who is a male) recently had two kids.

Could I say 
他最近生了两个小孩 。 Or does that imply that he physically gave birth to them?
That implies he physically gave birth. On the other hand the meaning is readily discernable, and in a casual environment people could understood it to be a small joke.

In any case, I've usually heard it phrased as something along the lines of 他的孩子剛出生 or 他老婆最近幫他生了兩個小孩.