How can we make pregnancy and infants more interesting? For this game or future ones

I think these are great ideas! The sims 4 definitely needs some improvement on pregnancy and babies. I do worry about having a gender reveal, I know a lot of people have been asking for it on the forums, but I think that that enforces gender stereotypes that we are trying to pull away from in society. Here is a funny meme to go with my statement:

https://i2.wp.com/starkeycomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Gander-Party-Finnished.jpg?fit=1500%2C1700&ssl=1

"Rhiannonraven;c-17389398" wrote:

I think these are great ideas! The sims 4 definitely needs some improvement on pregnancy and babies. I do worry about having a gender reveal, I know a lot of people have been asking for it on the forums, but I think that that enforces gender stereotypes that we are trying to pull away from in society. Here is a funny meme to go with my statement:

Ok that mean's pretty funny lol
But I'm not someone who is in opposition to some so-called "gender stereotypes", and not trying to pull away from it. So I'd love something like the gender reveal. There are sooo many kinds of ideas people use, but I think the balloon pop is the most popular and probable to enter the game.
Do you have any ideas on pregnancy improvement?

Id also like a way to have birth control? So that way sims can whoo-hoo with free will on and not have to worry about getting pregnant. Or maybe a way to sterilize yourself at the hospital...or maybe im going too far lol

@StrawberryYogurt Currently in the game you can't get pregnant unless you "Try For Baby", Woohooing is completely risk free. I would love to have a risk of getting pregnant even when you just woohoo. Other interesting things would be pregnancy failures like miscarriages.

"Rhiannonraven;c-17389421" wrote:

They can't woohoo without being prompted right now, I sure hope they still wouldn't if accidental pregnancies became a thing.

I wish they could. They can kiss or flirt without being prompted so why not? Then again sometimes your sim flirts with a random sim...wouldn't want them randomly having sex with a townie lol; ;;

Maybe let us give natural birth’s as well like as in we can give birth in bathtubs or hot tubs and they send over a nurse or someone to help rather than just have the baby just pop out.

I like your ideas for pregnancy. I really want ultrasounds so I can baby's gender and how many they're having before birth. And then the baby showers and gender reveals would be great to have as parties or events after finding out the gender. Of course the gender reveal should be linked to how many babies the sim is having, so if you're having boy-girl twins you'll get one blue cake and one pink one. I don't own this game but based on footage I've seen, I think in TS3 you could have moodlets based on if you wanted a boy or girl baby; I think it would be cool to have that in TS4 as well and the sim could have specific relations based on if the baby was the gender they wanted.

To this I'd also like to add more higher multiples to be able to be conceived. Instead of stopping at triplets, I'd like to go up to sextuplets.

For babies, a complete overhaul. This video highlights everything I'd like to see for babies in the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJqbJpbETs

Tldw version: Crawling, being fed at the highchair, toys, real cribs, changing table, learning to stand and take the first few steps, different clothes and accessories.

I love all these ideas! And while I am thankful for mods that let you do some of these things (like the ultrasound), they should just be included in the game since not everyone plays on PC and doesn't have access to mods.

Gender reveal? I think you need to google "Why gender reveal parties are problematic"
Gender resides in the brain, it's not something an ultrasound will discover. Most children express their gender between the ages of 2 and 6. Until they tell you, it's just assumed.
Not to mention that pink originally was a masculine colour, and had been so for thousands of years, before someone decided to make money out of switching it to blue, and convincing people that they needed to tell the world what a baby had between it's legs, in a colour code. Meanwhile blue has been a feminine colour for at least the last 2000 years. But for infants, white was the colour of choice for most of the history of cloth, because any cloth used for a baby would have to be laundered often, white was the practical choice, it could be washed and bleached on a regular basis, and unlike coloured fabric, it wouldn't fade. Right up until the 1940s, baby boys were dressed the same as baby girls, all wore frilly petticoats with their nappies, and cardigans and leggings for warmth.

And frilly petticoats for babies is something I do want.
What is it? Well, they called it 'a baby'
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/11/13/3a/11133a50ba64a677dd1bb0c8d8014d4f.jpg



I'm not particularly enthused about baby showers... baby baths make more sense :p
https://mbeans.com/spillingthebeans/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/baby-bath-vintage.jpg



Personally I'd like babies to be 'sick' occasionally, like in the real world, where new parents panic about every slight temperature rise, or sniffle.
Babies that scream all night, no matter what is done to try to soothe them, only to have them sleep all day.

"Guccifi;c-17389477" wrote:
Maybe let us give natural birth’s as well like as in we can give birth in bathtubs or hot tubs and they send over a nurse or someone to help rather than just have the baby just pop out.

I like that idea. Maybe include the option of an inflatable birthing pool, similar to a kiddie pool.

https://www.pregnancy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/WB002-Birth-Pool-in-a-Box-Mini.jpg

@Movotti


I like that idea. I love the frilly dresses! I love pioneer style dresses, I wish we had some of those and more western style clothes for adults. Irl I have a prairie style dress from H&M I love love love. Ones like these vintage Gunne Sax dresses:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6f/46/06/6f46067a4a2ae69df9f06a998e818a35.jpg
https://d2h1pu99sxkfvn.cloudfront.net/b0/6772622/389845946_H7FL0hU3k4/P0.jpg

These kind of dresses with a Farming expansions with the ability to churn butter, milk cows etc... omg, id be in love

I don't see an issue with gender reveal parties, It's more like a personal belief if you see them as harmful or not. They're just colors to help others to easily identify the sex of the baby, I don't see them as harmful. Depends on your own perspective, but I'm not one who sees anything wrong with them.

Some games babies do cry often all night, but yes seeing them sick could be cool too

"StrawberryYogurt;c-17390128" wrote:
http://thumbs.modthesims2.com/img/1/0/1/1/3/6/2/9/MTS_Evvi-1811248-Fulleffectpools.jpg

Oh just seen this mod. Would be awesome in the game

What mod is that? From what I can see, that came with Seasons. Because my sim family has that very pool in their inventory.

I'm generally not a fan of gender reveal parties myself, but as long as they're optional, I don't really care if they're in the game. (I went out of my way to keep my daughter's bio-sex secret because I didn't want to be saddled with tons of pink. I wound up having to tell everyone I was a non-fan of pink and please don't get me stuff in it. I still got pink stuff that was among the first to be "passed on" even if she hadn't grown out of it yet.
She's now a 19 year old straight A student with a 4th degree black belt who likes high heels and hates pink more than I do.)