this absolutely still happens like 100% of the time I'm on console and I have the complete updated version of the game no mods no CC all DLC except for a couple of kits that looked not so hot. but Sims will take the baby out of the crib they'll take the baby out of the little jungle gym mat they'll take them out of the high chair ages infant to toddler.
For what it's worth, in my experience (okay, yes, I have mods but tried infants first mod-free) there is a situation where if the infant's energy need goes into the red, the parents refuse to feed it and take it out of the crib and put it back in continuously in their desperation to "help." I had a situation last night where the infant's father wouldn't feed him because he kept trying to put him to bed instead. I queued up instances of "feed" until the father's queue was full and instead he picked up the infant and put him back down repeatedly. Okay, perhaps that was less than optimal ;) but I did it because my previous instructions to feed the infant were unsuccessful and I was frustrated. I was only able to get the parents to feed the infant by using UI cheats to take the infant's energy need from red to yellow.
My perception--as an end-user who does not write mods--is that the team took our old feedback that Sims did not care for newborns to heart and gave babies the ability to request help from the parent. BUT--again, my end-user perception--it seems to me that energy outweighs everything, including hunger.
I've been known to lock an infant in a room by themself so the parents would let them sleep!
I find the same thing happens (with or without mods) - I can't let the infants energy need get anywhere near the red - yellow is fine, red is a no no - energy in the red just overpowers all other attempts to take care of it. I began using UI cheats to cheat the energy need whenever it goes red back to yellow because there was no other way I could take care of the infant for hunger, or diaper changes. Once the energy need hit red, even if I needed to still feed the infant because energy was red the parent would just try take the infant to bed or put it on the floor, and not feed it at all.
