When do your sims have babies?

It varies with different families. I often will try wait till almost the end of young adult or early adult.

"FurSimsOfficial;c-17438253" wrote:
I find something odd about the grandparent - child chances in this game as well. According to the devs logic, Sims in their adult phase are supposed to consider kids, but I think this is WAY too late especially, cause there isn't much to do with the younger stages, so you always just look forward to just get kids asap and start some sort of meaningful family gameplay.
And adult sims just have that older look I don't like. I also do not like the western ideology of having kids when you are 30/40 as it is more healthy to have kids in your 20's.

Anyway, when my sims become kids, their grandparents usually are already dead which is strange as I mostly have kids right away in their YA stage. Something if off.

To be fair, the inclusion of toddlers kinda messed this up. They should have added a few more days onto the young adult and adult life stages when they added toddlers, because as it is now, the parents grow old far too quickly. It would be much more balanced if the grandparents are in their late adult stage when the grandchildren are babies and toddlers, start the elder stage when the grandkids are children, and are at the end of it by the time the grandchildren are teens/young adults.

I agree with you btw, I personally think having kids in real life when you're over 35 is just too old. My parents had me with 30 and 32, which is still young enough, but older than many others. I also know someone whose parents decided ten years after their first child was born to have another one at 40. It's just shitty for the kids to start their 20s while their parents are almost old enough to retire.

Usually as young adults.

Ha, I normally forget top find them a partner, and no partner no kids... One adult female just a few days off from elderhood was sent to a bar to flirt with the random bartender, then got him home and voila - she had triplets right before turning elderly. Poor woman, she even lives in a rather tiny house .-.

Late young adult-early adult - depending on the sim.

It depends how long it takes me to find a partner for my Sim. I usually try young adult cause then maybe they can live a little longer to see their grandchildren in child stages. Otherwise, none of my Sims live long enough to see grandchildren unless I create them at the start of a save. :(

For me it's usually young adult, late young adult and adult

Usually mine have children in the first or second week of Young Adulthood. If my Sim is going to live a longer than normal lifespan, then it is whenever I decide.

Since I now play on long life span, It's basically, whenever.
But when I played on short life span, it was as quickly as possible! :D

Kinda like the difference between goblins with very short life spans and elves with really long life spans. ;)

I prefer to turn off aging...it seems sims 4 allows for more creative imagination then past versions of the sims..so if you want your sim to be interesting... you need to combine what the game does give you and then include your own adaptive story line and develop a character who is likable and one you can relate to..that takes time. It is easier to do this with one sim at first and then I like to adapt the town or towns to how that sim chooses to live...usually with something that makes money from home. I might tweak the local library and coffee shop for a writer...or have public garden areas for a future farmer..etc; Then you also need social activities to gather a selective group of friends..maybe that is a night club ..a restaurant...whatever fits the character of the sim. So it is a bit before the main character is ready to meet someone to marry and settle down with. I like the spouse to have a job and excel in that field some prior to having kids...and for both parents to have hardly hungry...seldom sleepy...and steel bladder..then it is time to start a family. I really enjoyed reading what others answered to this question.