Infants & Toddlers! Share Your Gameplay Pics and Discoveries

New infant playmat coming in next week's update.

Other infant/toddler updates:

New toggle in the Options Menu to "Disable Caregiver Autonomy for Infants." When enabled, all care is manual, though Sims will still socialize and you can use “Check Infant.” Neglect can lead to social services intervention.

New Infant thought bubble for loud noises: Infants now react to loud noises with a buff and thought bubble, plus a one-time tutorial explaining why they wake, helping players address the cause instead of repeated pickups.

Additional hovertip improvements, such as "Prefers Bottle Feeding" interactions to clarify that choosing a preference restricts autonomous feeding to that method only and Stand Up Milestone, where Infants needed specific nearby objects to pull themselves up 

Infant tuning based on player feedback, such as:

• • Sims will now clean up diapers left on the floor after changing an Infant or Newborn, as long as a trash can is nearby. (Base Game)
  • Changing an Infant's diaper at the Changing Table takes about a third less time than it used to. (Base Game)
  • The Infant Hunger Need will now decrease slightly more slowly. We received light feedback on this and we're hoping this slight tweak will prove the right balance for player realism and fun. (Basegame)
  • Feeding an Infant will now take about fifteen minutes (Sim Time), which is half the time it previously took. (Base Game)
  • Infant care interactions (Give Bottle, Change Diaper, etc.) should now appear on the first Pie Menu when an Infant's Needs are low for your ease of access.
  • Infant Milestones tied to Tummy Time now unlock twice as fast, addressing feedback that progression felt too slow - especially on shorter lifespans. With reasonable attention, most Milestones can now be achieved by around day 3. (Growing Together)

• 25+ bug fixes for top voted Infant and Toddler issues, including: 
• [EA Forums][EA Forums] [EA Forums] Frequent Infant pickups and put downs, caregiver conflicts, and Sims freezing during care were major frustrations. This update includes multiple interconnected fixes to address these issues, all available in the Base Game.
• [EA Forums] Infant and Toddler Needs will no longer decrease when the Active Sim (and the player) is on another lot, away from them. We hope that this change will make caregiving for Infants and Toddlers more enjoyable. (Basegame)
• [EA Forums] Toddler Sims will no longer be hungry but would remain idle, despite having food. (Basegame)
• We received feedback that “reading to Toddlers” wasn’t working well, and we’ve addressed a few bugs related to this;
• [EA Forums] Toddlers are now able to successfully run the "Ask to Read Book" interaction on a teen or older Sim.
• The "Be Read to By" interaction on Toddler Books should now function when selected by an Infant. 
• We fixed a code exception that could cause Sims to reset when an Adult Sim would click on a book and choose to "Read to Children." (Basegame)
• [EA Forums] Infants Milestones are no longer disappearing or being reset when that Infant's Household is visited while playing another Household. This is fixed in old saves as well as new ones. (Growing Together)
• [EA Forums] Infants are now able to act on their unlocked Milestone developmental progress when they are not at their Residential lot. This fix is retroactive in old saves where the bug had previously been occurring. (Growing Together)

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