> お母さん、風香産んで正解だった。

This sentence means "Mother was right about giving birth to Fuuka." but I
don't understand the usage of the て form here. I think it nominalized the verb
but isn't this the job of こと or の ?

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grammar usage て-form
Can て form nominalize verbs?
You probably know "食べていい?" is parsed like "Eat and okay?" but means "Can I eat
it?". Saying いい last may not seem natural at first sight, but this is a
natural word order in Japanese. You are seeing a similar structure here. This
te-form is not technically a nominalizer but just "and". You can read it like
"I gave birth to Fuka and made a right decision (by doing it)". But using a
nominalizer and saying お母さん(が)風香(を)産んだ **の** (は)正解だったわ makes sense, too.
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