"GalacticGal;c-16816524" wrote:
I believe, and someone here can likely correct me if I'm wrong, that Plant Sims first became a 'thing' in Sims2. It has everything to do with being too heavy into gardening. Also, your children aren't born, they are harvested from the ground! I've never been into them, myself, but my grown daughter could never get enough of them. To each, his own.
In TS2, you "spawn" a Plant toddler (no planting required). There are only 3 life stages - toddler, adult and elder. It will have all the skills that "Mom" has. The father is a hidden default NPC (like the aliens).
TS3 has the planting of the fruit, then "harvesting" a baby. ;)