How many babies?
How many babies does your Sim have and why?
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The first time I actually wanted to play with offspring in the sims was in the sims 2. I had a household with the maximum number of adult sims (was it 6, or 8 already in sims 2?) and decided I wanted to have two of them to try for a baby. I had a male sim bang a female sim so many times it became a tedious chore, but I didn't understand why she wouldn't get pregnant. It didn't occur to me that a baby would take up a 'character slot' in the household. Luckily, as if the game somehow processed what I was trying to do, 2 of my sims in that household died (horribly) in rapid succession, freeing up space for that female sim to finally get pregnant right after. Except, my male sim had plowed her fertile fields so many times that the household was immediately blessed with twins after a short pregnancy. Something I hadn't expected. Neither did I expect babies to be so high maintenance. Even with the two parents, the rest of the household, and a nanny looking after the twins, it was still a hassle for me and decided I didn't like to play with offspring in the sims.
Then came the sims 4 and I was playing with a single male sim household. He got abducted by aliens and I was like, okay, sure, /shrug, whatever, could be adventurous. But after he got back, he started to have some suspicious emote-like text balloons. And when he ran off to the nearest toilet to puke one morning, it finally dawned on me that he could be pregnant. I was shocked and, like, no, no, no, I don't want that. This can't be happening! Sure enough, the next morning, my sim was sporting a pregnant belly. Apparently this shocked my male sim in game too as the next thing he did - autonomically - was: looking shocked at his belly, showing and emote balloon with an icon for having gained weight, ran to the treadmill that was in his bedroom, and started working out because he thought he'd gotten fat. That got me rofl for real, it was hilarious. I was also surprised that a pregnant belly in game looks different from a fat belly, though it looked rather comically on my guy with his six-pack stretched over it. The guy did get more used to being pregnant over the next three sim days (even though he had to pee a lot more than usual) and gave birth to a healthy alien baby boy. Of course I had forgotten to prepare a baby room, but a bassinet was instantly generated with the baby.
Even though I hadn't planned on playing with a baby again, and my male sim was abducted, thoroughly "probed", probably without consent (although I'd imagine he enjoyed it), and had to go through a traumatizing pregnancy (it's not really a guy thing - nor is the option to breast feed the baby o_O), I still loved the cute little alien baby (this was before baby Yoda was a thing) and decided to keep him.
Sadly when I moved that family to an apartment in San Myshuno, the bassinet with the baby bugged out and it got stuck on the corner of the street outside of the apartment building. The only way for me to solve that was to age up the baby to the child life stage (this happened before the existence of toddlers in the sims 4). They are now living happily ever after as townies in San Myshuno as I moved on to play other sims, but I still won't be going for babies anytime soon if it's my free choice.
Then came the sims 4 and I was playing with a single male sim household. He got abducted by aliens and I was like, okay, sure, /shrug, whatever, could be adventurous. But after he got back, he started to have some suspicious emote-like text balloons. And when he ran off to the nearest toilet to puke one morning, it finally dawned on me that he could be pregnant. I was shocked and, like, no, no, no, I don't want that. This can't be happening! Sure enough, the next morning, my sim was sporting a pregnant belly. Apparently this shocked my male sim in game too as the next thing he did - autonomically - was: looking shocked at his belly, showing and emote balloon with an icon for having gained weight, ran to the treadmill that was in his bedroom, and started working out because he thought he'd gotten fat. That got me rofl for real, it was hilarious. I was also surprised that a pregnant belly in game looks different from a fat belly, though it looked rather comically on my guy with his six-pack stretched over it. The guy did get more used to being pregnant over the next three sim days (even though he had to pee a lot more than usual) and gave birth to a healthy alien baby boy. Of course I had forgotten to prepare a baby room, but a bassinet was instantly generated with the baby.
Even though I hadn't planned on playing with a baby again, and my male sim was abducted, thoroughly "probed", probably without consent (although I'd imagine he enjoyed it), and had to go through a traumatizing pregnancy (it's not really a guy thing - nor is the option to breast feed the baby o_O), I still loved the cute little alien baby (this was before baby Yoda was a thing) and decided to keep him.
Sadly when I moved that family to an apartment in San Myshuno, the bassinet with the baby bugged out and it got stuck on the corner of the street outside of the apartment building. The only way for me to solve that was to age up the baby to the child life stage (this happened before the existence of toddlers in the sims 4). They are now living happily ever after as townies in San Myshuno as I moved on to play other sims, but I still won't be going for babies anytime soon if it's my free choice.
