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StripedRainbow
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11 years ago

Sims 4 pregnancy

There is one thing I find a little unrealistic about sims 4 pregnancy. Right after my pregnant female sim takes the pregnancy test and finds out she's pregnant, her belly gets a little bigger. In real life, no one starts showing right away. When I was pregnant with my twin girls in real life, I didn't start showing until I was 16 weeks along. I think it would be more realistic if sims bellies didn't get bigger until the 2nd trimester. That's how it was in TS2 and TS3. I also think pregnant sims should be able to work until the end of the 2nd trimester/beginning of 3rd trimester. Once they ender the 3rd trimester, they should get maternity leave. I do like most other aspects of pregnancy in TS4. I do like now being able to breastfeed and taking the pregnancy test to find out your sim's eggo is preggo.

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  • Other than the "bump after test" I feel like ts4 pregnancy is the most realistic out of the ts2-4. No two pregnancies are the same, the bumps grow at different rates to different sizes. I absolutely love pregnancy on ts4.
  • "mappam;12863250" wrote:
    Why is there no TEST to find out the gender of the baby? If there is a pregnancy test why not be able to find out the gender before you decorate the room?? I am REALLY going to miss the toddler stage!!


    I agree with you. I think there should be an option to go to the hospital and get an ultrasound to find out the gender. To make it more realistic, I think this should happen during the 2nd trimester of pregnancy. I always set up my nursery before the baby is born. I hate making a pink nursery, then finding out my sim had a baby boy.
  • I don't know if I'm just seeing thing but whenever my sims get pregnant their chests get bigger.
  • Maternity leave (called Family Leave in game because partners can take it too) is currently bugged.

    It's supposed to be enabled for all careers except acting (because that is gig based and you can just not take or cancel gigs when pregnant) but they mixed up and it's currently only enabled for acting.

    There's a mod fix for it here:

    https://simvasion.wordpress.com/portfolio/family-leave-fix/
  • EA_Rtas's avatar
    EA_Rtas
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    6 years ago
    Please don't necropost in old threads. I'm going to go ahead and close off this thread now as it has been inactive since 2014, If you have any questions about necroposting you can read this thread here : Necroposting

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