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Randomy_707
New Novice
9 months ago

Babies Born With No Relationship or Biological Link To Parents on Vanilla.

I have surfed the forum to see the same issue but it was resolved back in 2017 saying that it was due to mods.

I do not have any mod nor packs, but I'm having this issue now.

I just had my first baby in the game (so I'm new to the whole concept).

My Sim birthed a baby girl who at first seemed to be all fine.
Then after aging the baby up, she changed skin colour! I thought it might have been a temporary bug and didn't pay it any mind.

It was until I wanted to breastfeed the baby that I noticed it said "No caregiver can breastfeed", as I found it strange I checked in my female Sim simology, and she is able to produce milk.

I then proceeded to save the game and exit, and then enter the game again. (this has worked for some bugs before)

When I entered the game again I still couldn't breastfeed, so I searched it up and found posts that didn't help. So again I didn't pay too much attention to it and aged up the newborn into an infant.

The baby kept being differently skinned from her parents, and I was upset because I couldn't change it.

But then I couldn't pick up the infant, I could barely have any interactions with the baby.

That's when I looked everywhere and found that the baby my sim birthed is like an adopted baby!

This is surely a bug of some sorts, but please someone tell me how can I fix this.

(if it can help I noticed other problems, like the parents who are married not appearing in each other's family trees. And a skill which I had maxed being lowered to level 8, and one that I had just learned be forgotten).

I built up a lot in this save before deciding to finally have my first pregnancy experience, so I hope this is fixable and I don't have to restart from zero.

5 Replies

  • So it isn't just me! I was getting worried as well. It didn't work for me, but did you use the reset sim cheat? It could work maybe. Do you know when it may have happened? I know for me it was my game glitching after aging up 3 sims at a time and reversing in time. Was your pregnant sim shown as pregnant afterwards? At least with mine, I believe it broke and reversed time to before my sim had her infant. So maybe it's happening to you?

  • Randomy_707's avatar
    Randomy_707
    New Novice
    9 months ago

    I didn't use any cheat.

    It happened yesterday, I literally made both the parents (the only sims in the game save) stop going to work just to prepare for the birth.

    Then the sim gave birth and all looked normal, as I said in the post things got weird when the baby's skin colour changed.

    From the skill going down to level 8 from 10 I did think that she might have had an issue that the game didn't properly save or something...

    But then why would the baby still be there? And also my married sims don't appear in each other's family trees...

  • DreamyStarbi's avatar
    DreamyStarbi
    New Rookie
    9 months ago

    What I mean with the cheat is that if you do the ResetSim cheat it will reset their position and stuff. But for me, my baby was already an infant, but multiple skills and stuff went down. I'm pretty sure it has to do with some major save error bug, but I do not know much about programming. What device are you using to play? Because if it can be generalized to more than one player experiencing the bug on one platform, it could be an issue for more and it can hopefully be added to a bug report and make it onto a Laundry List to get it fixed

  • Randomy_707's avatar
    Randomy_707
    New Novice
    9 months ago

    I'm playing from a laptop, windows.

    If you also play on the same platform I will open a topic on the bugs.

    Let's hope that it will be fixed soon.

  • DreamyStarbi's avatar
    DreamyStarbi
    New Rookie
    9 months ago

    I play on a Mac laptop, but I think we can still open a discussion of laptops overall. I believe they may have the same code, so that will make it work either way