How is everyone doing with the infants?

I haven't had a chance to play yet (need a good amount of free time so I really play!) but am looking forward to it! From what I am reading from the posts, the gameplay sounds alot like having babies and toddlers in Sims 2, so I know I am going to love the challenge! Infants require alot of time, as they are so dependent on the caregivers. I am excited to watch them grow with each milestone. Oh, they are finally turning over on own or sitting up! Awesome, they are pulling themselves up to standing and will be walking soon! I remember how exciting it was with my daughter as she grew and accomplished each milestone, and can't wait to have my sim parents enjoy this special time in their lives! And yes, infants do require alot of your time, as when they are finally asleep, mommy/daddy need to rest! But infants don't sleep long, so the best milestone will be sleeping through the night! I remember the chaos in Sims 2 when I first played the Ottamas family. Good thing I love a challenge!

I am having trouble making ANY sims interact with each other in any meaningful way. Sims keep freezing. Playing with an infant is centered on sim interactions. I would rather have my sim scrub a toilet than interact with an infant.

I have barely scratched the surface on game play. I still had to get my target couple married, while playing vanilla for the time. A couple of days later, the mods I needed were updated or deemed compatible, so I tried to play in a test copy of the vanilla save, with just the mods I needed. All went well, so I decided, since I have a copy of my entire Sims4 Folder saved to a Flash Drive, that I could make yet another copy of it, and initiate gameplay, with the mods in place. I have slowly returned other cc and stuff. Finally, my couple had their baby. He had just aged up to Infant and completed about two Milestones, when my gaming rig went kablooey. To be fair, Windows has been crashing a great deal lately, and I have no clue what broke down inside to cause the hard drive to no longer receive information it needs to fully boot up. I just know I'm anxious to get back to it.

So sorry about your rig blowing up on you at the worst time ever. @GalacticGal As you know one of my rigs also went to heck just a couple of weeks before the infant update dropped. I hate starting over from scratch more than I hate rain. >:)

Infants. Ah, yes, we have been expecting you little bundles of joy since 2017. That's a long time to be 'expecting'. But never in my wildest dreams did I expect to see features like family dynamics, or all the other new features in the update and pack. I am in love with Sims4 now even more than I was before. Since I had been forced to start all over, I decided to wait to have a baby born in game until I have a few more YAs married and settled down. Whew, talk about a challenge with all the new interactions and the new compatibility features. The matches I had set in my head went down the drain within two days of playing my new save. Guess I'm not the best matchmaker for my Sims any longer.

I have been following many players as they navigate the new life stage, and I have to admit I am a little worried I might not be up to the challenge if infants are as needy as they are said to be. And there are a few bugs with infants that I hope get sorted out soon before I accept the challenge of my target couple having the first born in game baby. And I sure as heck hope this couple isn't 'blessed' with twins! I see there is some speculation that has been retuned and multiple babies are more likely to happen now. Yikes! I foresee an age gap between my Sims' children with new babies being born once the older sibling ages up to a child and goes to school. But I am totally in love with the new infants. And I don't think I will be very thrilled if every pregnancy ends with the birth of twins and triplets. I'm all for a bit of chaos in my game, but triplets!! That's just a bit over the top for me. :D

So far I'm 50/50 between multiples and single births - my first infants were twins, and in another save I got a single. I believe the first is pregnant again now that the infants are toddlers, so we'll see.

Thant you @Paigeisin5 . I use MCCC to decide just how many babies will be born. I also was glad to see Erik and Kayleigh's first was a boy, (another thing this mod is good for). Click on the pregnant Sim and select MC Pregnancy and it will tell you how far into the pregnancy (which you can change, if you like) and the gender of the baby and how many babies. You can set how many of each gender, too, if you want multiples.

When I was playing this game save originally, I made them have their children one right after the other. The second pregnancy resulted in twin girls (no, I didn't set the mod for it) the game gave me that gift. LOL But given that Kayleigh is a triplet, this could be why the twins. So, after seeing how involved it is playing with Infants, I am rethinking just how quickly the next child or children come. I'll have to wait to see when the 'right' moment arrives for the next one is on the way. So far, I only had a day with the Infant before my rig collapsed on me. Sadness.

@GalacticGal Shut the front door!!! I have been using MCCC for years and didn't know it has a cheat for pregnancies. Talk about feeling like a noob! :D Thank you so much for the info. I will be keeping a close eye on all my pregnant Sims from now on. <3

"Paigeisin5;c-18247039" wrote:
@GalacticGal Shut the front door!!! I have been using MCCC for years and didn't know it has a cheat for pregnancies. Talk about feeling like a noob! :D Thank you so much for the info. I will be keeping a close eye on all my pregnant Sims from now on. <3

You're very welcome, but make certain you have the latest and greatest hot fix. 2023 1.3 is out as of this morning.

Now that I did see, and I got the MCCC Hot Fix earlier. Now I need to read the documentation for MCCC and check to see what other nuggets of knowledge I don't know. :/

I like the infants, they are good to play. I'm not a family player and I only have the patch yet, but I like how infants seem different, and not just because of their trait. Recent addition is "Intense", which suited the household (mother) perfectly, but it turns out he often sleeps on the floor without as much as a simple cry. Gotta love him, although I was looking forward to his mom being up for a challenge...