Science Babies

"GalacticGal;c-18236222" wrote:

"Rebbilina;c-18235859" wrote:
Yeah, I', honestly very dissapointed in that and don't really see myself using that feature because of it. I have had quite a lot of lesbian couples where I change the one that's not carrying to be able to impregnate others and have them try for baby, to pretend that they're doing IVF and have a donor that looks similar to the other parent. I was very excited about science babies initially, but I really want that pregnancy.

"Simmingal;c-18235802" wrote:


I assume its because the whole who is mother thing they want to avoid so its kind of like adoption except with genetics

I'm bisexual and have previously been in a long term relationship with another woman, where we tried to have a baby. To me, that would'nt be an issue as long as both women are listed as mothers. The game already does that if you do what I usually do. There's not different in their relationships with the kids, the only reason I know is because I remember who carried which child. People who view the non-carrying person as less of a mum already do so before playing, and aren't going to change their minds about that because no one's pregnant. To me, it feels more disappointing to not get the pregnancy with this at all, than people who already were biggots continuing being bigots.

Not being able to play with lesbian couples and pregnancies was one of the things I really didn't like in sims 3 (yes, I know there was an option in Into the future, but I didn't have it and had no desire to time travel). It's great that the baby showers are for everyone, but I still want the whole throw up every morning and go to the hospital together to give birth with my lesbian couples. It would be way better if you could choose pregnancy or not.

I look at it this way, and it may have been a mod I use, there is a place where you can select the 'seed' donor. In fact I do believe MCCC allows for this. It doesn't have to be the partner, unless you want it to be. You click on the parent-to-be and then select the donor. This would simulate a surrogacy, or InVetro. Either way your Sim goes through a pregnancy, just as if the couple were heterosexuals. Create your own head-canon. I'm very sorry you're disappointed. Are we really certain things weren't sped up? Scary Test-tube baby.

I just had an interesting thought. Since in CAS we can set become pregnant or make pregnant, why not toss a coin or roll the dice to see which one gets to carry the child?

Yeah, like I said, I have my work around in CAS that I've used ever since we could go change if the sims can become pregnant, make others pregnant or none of them. That's not my issue with the science baby. I think it's sad that they didn't think "hey, this sounds like something you could use to simulate IVF, and part of that journey is being pregnant". I believe the mod you're talking about might be RPO, which is great in many ways, but the donor shows up in the family tree and I don't want to use my family trees to trace genetics.

If we were to get science babies with pregnancies, I really hope we can pick who's going to be pregnant. I have a very realistic play style, and in my experience you don't toss a coin over who's going to carry the child in real life. Someone's older and want to go first, someone has health issues, etc etc. In my last lesbian couple, one of them was an actress, and didn't carry the first baby to not have to deal with hiding the pregnancy on her tv show.