Giving birth at hospital

It might be the time of day. If he has a job and its his work hours, maybe that's why he's leaving right away. At least I've had that with club gatherings. My dad's always stay, might be because they're always part of the household I'm playing, and won't go to work without me telling them to?

This has been happening in my game for years. If the Sim is in your household and you're controlling them, then they'll stay for the birth but if it's a NPC that you've invited, they leave as soon as they hit the lot. Pretty annoying.

"Simmerville;c-17193886" wrote:
Mine normally stay, but I need to direct them as they quickly change focus. Yesterday a dad watching the birth suddenly walked over to the next room to watch a poster (!) while his wife was giving birth... I never brought a sim who is not part of the household, though (if possible). And I never ask anyone to join, I just click the pregnant female, choose "give birth at hospital" and "join", then I can choose from relations the way you do when someone is traveling. Oh my, I never tried to bring a full household, just 1 sim - next birth I'll try to bring a full crowd, LOL.

That's not possible. I wish it was, though. :/

"AyKooChao;c-17193887" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-17193886" wrote:
Mine normally stay, but I need to direct them as they quickly change focus. Yesterday a dad watching the birth suddenly walked over to the next room to watch a poster (!) while his wife was giving birth... I never brought a sim who is not part of the household, though (if possible). And I never ask anyone to join, I just click the pregnant female, choose "give birth at hospital" and "join", then I can choose from relations the way you do when someone is traveling. Oh my, I never tried to bring a full household, just 1 sim - next birth I'll try to bring a full crowd, LOL.

That's not possible. I wish it was, though. :/

It's not possible in RL, either. I have been at the hospital for four of my grandchildren's birth. My daughter was having a C-Section (which is what I liken the hospital birth in the game to) and I had to stay in the room, while my son-in-law was with her in the OR. It's not easy waiting alone.

Sim autonomy in general doesn't make a lot of sense. it isn't just watching child birthing, it goes through a lot of things:

so say your sim is dangerously tired and needs to sleep but you got a cofeee maker downstairs. the sim doesn't go to sleep like it is a lower priority order or something, no your sim goes for the coffee maker instead!

Say your fridge is full of fantastic home cooked food, some of it quality style gourmet stuff, but there is a grill outside. so instead of getting something nice from the fridge, they go for the grill instead, places the food in their inventory or on a table outside. so before long that food spoils. the next morning, a hungry sim comes down and grabs a spoiled burger, eats it instead of cleaning it up. So yeah, some pretty twisted autonomy priorities going on.

Hospitals should be editable without the glicthes that come afterwards if you try to edit them. And the gameplay should be less repetitive. The fact that you can't have two sims from your household work together in the hospital giving you the ability to switch from one to the other is not right.

I've had the father stay. It's been a while since I played a birth though, so not entirely sure a patch hasn't changed things.

Mine normally stay, but I need to direct them as they quickly change focus. Yesterday a dad watching the birth suddenly walked over to the next room to watch a poster (!) while his wife was giving birth... I never brought a sim who is not part of the household, though (if possible). And I never ask anyone to join, I just click the pregnant female, choose "give birth at hospital" and "join", then I can choose from relations the way you do when someone is traveling. Oh my, I never tried to bring a full household, just 1 sim - next birth I'll try to bring a full crowd, LOL.

"AyKooChao;c-17193887" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-17193886" wrote:
Mine normally stay, but I need to direct them as they quickly change focus. Yesterday a dad watching the birth suddenly walked over to the next room to watch a poster (!) while his wife was giving birth... I never brought a sim who is not part of the household, though (if possible). And I never ask anyone to join, I just click the pregnant female, choose "give birth at hospital" and "join", then I can choose from relations the way you do when someone is traveling. Oh my, I never tried to bring a full household, just 1 sim - next birth I'll try to bring a full crowd, LOL.

That's not possible. I wish it was, though. :/

Ouch, would be fun, though! Thanks!

i think i might be missing something here-- how do you invite a sim to watch a birth? i never realised that was an option