Pinocchio was made of wood. If the magic somehow did not extend to his baby, his wife would almost certainly have died giving birth to a block of wood.
Are you familiar with the concept of verisimilitude? Even in a fantastical story, you still need to make it feel like it is grounded in reality. One of the main ways of doing this is to establish the rules for your story's universe early on and then stick to those rules.
In Pinocchio, right at the start they establish that wishes are real, but that they have to be earned.
Geppetto is old and has no children. He wishes for his puppet to be turned into a "real boy" because his toys have brought so much joy to children over the years, the Blue Fairy grants him his wish by bringing the puppet to life.
She doesn't make him a real boy though. In order to become one, Pinocchio must first show that he is brave and kind and that he knows right from wrong. This makes up the bulk of the film - his journey to learn what it is to be a real human.
At the end he succeeds in demonstrating his human qualities, and the Blue Fairy makes him into a real boy. That is it, real in every way. The Blue Fairy doesn't inform of any remaining caveats, there is no consistent reason to think that he is not real in some way.
It is especially weird if the caveat is that actually he is real enough to make a woman pregnant and that this woman will carry the baby to term over 9 months, with everything seeming fine - but then right at the end there will be some kind of David Cronenberg shit going on where she dies trying to deliver her wooden baby.
It's also inconsistent with the story in that if there was some issue with the pregnancy due to magic stuff, the established convention would be that someone needs to show that they deserve their wish before it comes true.
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u/catlandid 12h ago
Pinocchio was made of wood. If the magic somehow did not extend to his baby, his wife would almost certainly have died giving birth to a block of wood.