Is this a glitch? Or what am I missing?

This thread is helpful because I've recently had an epidemic of mysteriously chubby toddlers and children born to genetically fit parents, and I didn't realize you could overfeed them as babies.

Thinking about it, I never use the highchair for toddlers since it's so buggy. I let them grab a plate themselves off of the table and I only just learned that certain dishes will make a Sim gain weight faster. I wonder if my Sim toddlers are so plump because of all the city food stall recipes that I was filling up the refrigerator with.

(That being said, many updates ago I remember having all of my Sim children avoid leveling the motor skill because if they got above 4 skill level or something they would age into a ridiculously skeletal body type that made them all look sick. Glad it's been fixed though.)

On a related note, does anybody know if there's a difference between bottle feed and breast feed? Or rather, how it affects Sim children?

Wasn't this an old bug back in 2014? I think I read a bug thread about this.

If you feed them too much as babies they will be chubby toddlers. Feeding them every four hours is crazy, you should only feed them when they cry (and don't have a dirty diaper). On average I only feed my babies 2 or 3 times a day. Yes if they were real babies that would be nuts but these are sim babies, they don't need that much food.

Also when they are toddlers, watch what they eat. Instant high chair meals are fattening, cook for them instead. Garden salad, fruit salad, fish, chicken etc.

i used to have this issue too. then i started to only feed my babies once the "*baby's name* is very hungry! feed them soon before social services takes them away" or whatever it is thing pops up and i'm not having any more problems with chubby children

Well with the last baby I waited until she cried before feeding her and she still aged up chubbier than both her parents (who are both pretty thin ..her father is Joaquin and we all know how skinny he is, mom is at comparable thinness also). So I'm pretty sure it's something buggy.

Also to be clear I was saying I fed them every four hours at the most ...not that it was always that amount of time (for example when everyone is sleeping I don't wake mom or anyone else up just to feed the babies every four hours).

How are some of you ending up with babies who only want fed 2-3 times a sim day? That must be nice. After this experiment of waiting for the babies to cry before feeding them, I've noticed they still want to eat at least four times a day (and I know that's why they were crying because they didn't have a dirty diaper and they turned green after, and feeding won't satisfy their social need like in Sims 3 so it wasn't that either).

Also I have had it happen where babies rejected the feeding, like if my sim throws a party and mom has just fed the baby, baby cries in the middle of the party, and a well-meaning guest goes up to the baby and tried giving it a bottle ..... They don't eat long and a minus sign appears. So I really don't know that currently you can overfeed the babies like you can toddlers and all the ages above. Especially since I tried waiting until they cried and they still aged up with a higher weight than parents. In this case I really think there might be something glitchy causing the babies in my game to age up fatter.