With the new babies I found hiring a nanny helped out a lot. A sweet little grandma nanny came over with her little suitcase so I made a pretty room just for her. The problem is that she (Eleanor) stayed for a while then left. She left her bag but she never came back. I checked to make sure she hadn't died, she hadn't (whew!) OK, I thought, I must have accidentally lost her so I'll hire her again. I called to hire a nanny and got a different nanny (a rando) and he's the one who comes over now, unfortunately, he's not as good at taking care the baby and newborn and I had non stop bawling children. argh.My questions are:Can I get Eleanor back (She's in an NPC household) or can I choose my own nanny and, most importantly, can I get a permanent live in nanny? (Can it be done without mods?) If not, maybe a live in nanny option would be a great addition to TS4 as a job or feature since babies are now free and a lot more labor intensive. Fellow simmers what are your workarounds for keeping a nanny around?

Have you considered just adding her to household?

Eleanor is one of the stay over phone calls. I got her call after I declined Kyle's call. Why dont you just invite her for another stay over? Keep doing that until the kids are older ;)

"mcrudd;c-18257774" wrote:Eleanor is one of the stay over phone calls. I got her call after I declined Kyle's call. Why dont you just invite her for another stay over? Keep doing that until the kids are older ;) Oh, cheers for this, can you explain how that worked, I got her by happy accident but I'm not clear on how it happened or how I triggered it (There must have been a bunch of stuff happening all at once so I didn't see what happened.) I don't think I initiated the nanny call originally, I think it generated on it's own and I thought, why not? lol

She phoned my sim shortly after the birth of the baby. She said something like she loves looking after children and would love to help out a few days. I accepted and she showed up. Now that you know her you can invite her for a stay over, not sure she will call again ;)

"mcrudd;c-18257777" wrote:She phoned my sim shortly after the birth of the baby. She said something like she loves looking after children and would love to help out a few days. I accepted and she showed up. Now that you know her you can invite her for a stay over, not sure she will call again ;) Cool, thanks for this! That's kind how I remember it and I didn't know how to get her back. She hasn't called back so far and there's so.much, crying. My sims weren't doing what told them to do to fix it (my game my be bugged), I finally had to zoom out to nearly outer space to get away from the crying. lol

Can I Keep Her? or Can You Have A Live In Nanny?

14 Replies

simgirl1010
Hero
3 years ago
Have you considered just adding her to household?
Lolzarella
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"simgirl1010;c-18257763" wrote:
Have you considered just adding her to household?

I have considered that, I just wanted to check all the options first, ya know?
I forgot to add: I found out that Eleanor Sullivan is part of a Townie household and If I adopted her I'd take her away from her granddaughter and DIL. I'd rather not do that or have to adopt All three of them.
mcrudd
Legend
3 years ago
Eleanor is one of the stay over phone calls. I got her call after I declined Kyle's call. Why dont you just invite her for another stay over? Keep doing that until the kids are older ;)
Lolzarella
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"mcrudd;c-18257774" wrote:
Eleanor is one of the stay over phone calls. I got her call after I declined Kyle's call. Why dont you just invite her for another stay over? Keep doing that until the kids are older ;)

Oh, cheers for this, can you explain how that worked, I got her by happy accident but I'm not clear on how it happened or how I triggered it (There must have been a bunch of stuff happening all at once so I didn't see what happened.) I don't think I initiated the nanny call originally, I think it generated on it's own and I thought, why not? lol
mcrudd
Legend
3 years ago
She phoned my sim shortly after the birth of the baby. She said something like she loves looking after children and would love to help out a few days. I accepted and she showed up. Now that you know her you can invite her for a stay over, not sure she will call again ;)
Lolzarella
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"mcrudd;c-18257777" wrote:
She phoned my sim shortly after the birth of the baby. She said something like she loves looking after children and would love to help out a few days. I accepted and she showed up. Now that you know her you can invite her for a stay over, not sure she will call again ;)

Cool, thanks for this! That's kind how I remember it and I didn't know how to get her back. She hasn't called back so far and there's so.much, crying. My sims weren't doing what told them to do to fix it (my game my be bugged), I finally had to zoom out to nearly outer space to get away from the crying. lol
mcrudd
Legend
3 years ago
It is a pleasure, with infants I suggest rather selecting the infant and clicking on the parent to do things. Get bath from ... get fed by ... and so on. It seems to work better than having the parent selected :) Also put infant on playmat and have infant selected and say look at toys.... play with toys. They stop crying and do as they are told immidiately ;)
SuperNerdChick
3 years ago
No way you found an actually good nanny! I've been avoiding having all my Sims go to work or school with newborns in the house because they don't get sent to daycare and just sit there with all their needs draining and I've had to have someone leave work early to not lose them. The one time I tried choosing nanny instead while having newborns (twins), Sai took care of the infants and toddlers just fine but for the newborns he would do everything BUT feed them and the end result was the same (except it was hard to get him to leave and as I tried to feed the newborns so they wouldn't be taken he kept getting the way and just cuddling or cooing at them or changing their perfectly clean diapers.....). I did post about it in help center.

You better treasure her! :D
Lolzarella
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@KestrelDC Give Eleanor Sullivan a try, she's one of the NPCs from San Sequoia and she's in the Sullivan-Luna household. I did get into her cas and removed the Mischief aspiration and changed it to Creative to cut down on toilet pranking. She got everything under better control with the first baby, I did not have her when the newborn came along, I haven't reconnected with her yet to see how she does with both bundles of screaming...ahem, bundles of joy. ;)
Lolzarella
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@mcrudd I was clicking (repeatedly) on the parents but they had other ideas like dancing while their little darling became more and more 'charming' the tireder he became. And then his meltdown set off the newborn to add an extra zing to it all. Quickly zooms camera out to fullest extent, I see nothing, I hear nothing. :D

As an aside, this is probably the longest I've ever kept a sim in the baby stage. lol Lots and lots of Firsts achievements.