"Oh, we checked that. I didn't want to find out the hard way what happens if I crash.
Turns out, though, that my gem running me is just a drop in the ocean of its processing power.

Well, what gives, we do have an unusually powerful gem."

That... is one way to put it, Rose supposes.

"Well then, Steven.

For me, you are a miracle. You are... a human being... and also... my child. The very fact of your life opened up infinite possibilities...
It is a windfall of grace that I do not deserve - to be able to talk to you, to be able to see which one of the infinite possibilies was realized.
It almost seems impossible, that everything turned out fine! Yet, it is also only natural, isn't it?

Oh, Steven... I look forward to learning everything about you! Lead the way."

He can't exactly do the same thing Pearl did - it isn't exactly a defaut feature for a Gem to travel their own mindscape.
He is connected to the machinery Pearl and Peridot and himself have concocted, though, and it has a bunch of useful features.

He doesn't need to meditate or somehow shove himself into himself. He can touch his gem, open a civilized graphic UI, and pick and choose the options.

Surroundings shift and blur a few times. Some dutifully recorded scenes are replayed in full 3d.

Whaddya know, baby Steven is adorable!

Pearl, Amethyst and Garnet are predictably not taking the change well.

Rose doesn't actually know that much about baby care, and in fact some of her vague impressions are a few centuries outdated, but...

She can tell that that the whole thing was a chaotic disaster.

...There's a point where Steven gets kidnapped by the Gems and Pearl nearly kills him in an attempt to free Rose; only her love for Rose stops her from coming through with it.

Rose sobs.

Oh no...

"It's okay, Mom."

Was she always this prone to crying?

"It was so... shortsighted of me, to leave them like this..."

Rose wipes her tears out, and looks Steven in the eyes.

"I should have been more clear, Steven. I should have explained babies to them. I should have explained them how I felt, and what to do."

(But she didn't want to explain things. She wanted to leave.)

Steven hugs his mom.
It's the third time, now, and the narrator will continue to increment the counter each time to draw attention to the ridiculous number of hugs this thread will feature.

"Aww, come on, mom! We should move on to the next few years, you're gonna love it!"

He doesn't, exactly, correct her.

She smiles.

The next few years ARE fun!

Kid Steven is adorable. In fact, he is too adorable.

Kid Steven is the reason why the first half of the first season of Steven Universe is a test of strength for a prospective viewer.
They risk choking on his childishness and dropping the show before it gets going.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO ADORABLE

"Look at you! First learning to walk, now learning to talk! Isn't it remarkable, how even those things need to be learned?"

(Steven has barely any flashes of memory of being this age - though he supposes that, now, it would be possible to unforget reintegrate them.)

"It's honestly more remarkable how gems don't have to learn them."

"I am not sure of that. Humans don't need to learn how to breathe or digest food!"

"Wait, do gems?"

"Digest food, yes. Breathe... not really - you need it to speak."

"Honestly, why do gems even speak? With soundwaves? And have mouths and noses?
Gems could just communicate via shapeshifting radio antennae - way further and faster and not dependant on air..."

"I... have absolutely no clue, and have never even thought of asking myself that question."

"Huh. Sounds like maybe a kind of thing that would come up when drafting up colonization plans..."

(She... does't particularly enjoy that side of her being acknowledged out of nowhere. But it's not going to be visible on her face.)

"Well, perhaps it would, if colonizing Earth was considered remotely difficult."

Steven is unusually thoughtful for a moment.

"Turned out to be difficult after all..."

An awkward pause in the conversation happens.

Then, in the record-replay, young Steven repeats "Mama!" after Greg, and-

"STEVEN!!! DID YOU HEEEEEAR THAAAAT???"

Steven laughs.

And now for something completely diffetent.