Help, social services has unfairly stolen my baby. I checked and saw there were no real solutions to this yet, but this is really frustrating and I'm concerned it's a glitch?
When I exited the game all needs were green and everything was fine. I briefly went to edit another household, but didn't play. I loaded up my game again and when I went back to my family I was instantly greeted with a 'your baby has been taken away due to neglect' and my baby was gone.
I hadn't even played since? There were no warnings? It was just as soon as it opened I got the popup.
When I load a game shouldn't it be where I left off?
This has now happened two separate times. The first time it happened I was able to quit and recover, but now it just happened again.
It seems every time I switch households (even just for a quick edit) that when I go back to my family a baby gets snatched away.
Is there a way to get it back? I tried to have another family adopt so I could split/merge, but the baby isn't showing up for adoption and seems to be lost. Since it happened instantly even quitting won't bring it back. I'm really upset and don't want to play if I keep losing my babies when their needs were fine.
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I would definitely roll back if possible. It sucks to lose the other progress I made but worth it to get the baby back! That would be great. I have no clue how to do it but I'll try anything.
I am sorry that you have had this occur in your game
Try rolling back your save game files to an earlier version. These links explain how to do that.
https://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-restore-a-previous-saved-game-in-the-sims-4/
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/783120/how-to-roll-back-your-save/p1
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
Thanks @rosemow . I did revert a version and the other sims in the household moved - like my adults were now in different rooms than the save, but instantly as soon as game loaded it happened again. Even though it was before my save.
I'm going to keep testing previous versions, but it doesn't bode well that other sims are being reverted to where they were but the second the game launches it happens. I don't know why it's still happening to take baby away on a previous version when it puts the other sims elsewhere where they were.
I'm really sad because she was just about to age up and I've put a lot of emotions and effort into this game
I am sorry that this is happening in your game
Try loading the save game, but go to manage households straightaway before loading the household. Move your sims family to another home through manage households. Then test to see if that helps.
It would be good to also post feedback on the issue on this AHQ EA thread.
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-Threads-to-take-baby-away-baby-doesn-t-cry-when-hungry/m-p/4529566#M12688
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
Fingers crossed! Thanks for the suggestion.
Sadly that's just a relationship bar (it'll change for every sim in the household). It can be anywhere and the baby can still be taken away if he or she hasn't been fed recently enough. Loading in at time warp when everyone is sleeping can be hard on babies. I normally only save when at least one sim is awake (well now I use MCCC to force loading in a paused state).
I think @rosemow's advice should work if you roll back your save.
You're welcome I hope that it doesn't occur again.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
When you have a baby, don't leave that house to play in another house until the baby has grown. It has been so all the time in Sims 4. You can pause the game and save and then come back later but never leave the baby house to play in another.
"Love will Fight, Love will Win and Love will Survive."
I of course exit without saving, load the game again (which would put me right back before entering the household, as I always save before changing households), then go to manage household and move out the baby with one adult (usually the mother). Then I load the lot, and have one of the remaining household members catch the mother before she leaves the lot and invite her to move back in. Merge the households again, and use a cheat to reduce the money by the 22k extra that the fix leaves me with. The baby is saved, everyone is happy, and I pretend it never happened.
I never leave a house with a baby until the baby has grown into a toddler. then I only leave for club gatherings as long as one parent is home, but I try and have clubs at my sims house.
I hope you find a way to get your baby back. the only other option is starting again and as soon as they have a baby age it up.
I have been leaving houses with babies since day 1, as I rotate daily. The bug is rare, but it can hit you, even if you didn't leave the family, but just paused, saved, exited and returned the next day to play. As long as you save before changing household, it is just as easy to fix, as it is to fix one that got lost because you dared to quit the game for the day while having a baby in the household.
The only time it has caused me to lose any play time, was once when I took a family on a vacation and left the baby with the nanny (I often do that, but only once did I run into the bug). As soon as the vacation ended, and the home lot loaded, the baby was whisked away due to neglect. Bad, bad nanny! I have been saving the game before returning home from vacations ever since, but it has never happened again.
It's reassuring to see others have received this glitch as well, but also frustrating! It's something that needs to be looked at for sure - it seems to be rare but it hits hard for those of us who get it.
I'm definitely being paranoid with traveling/saves now and making sure I feed all the time. The babies won't even let me feed them most of the time and I keep losing relationship points, but it's worth it to be safe since they show as green lol.
Thanks @TriX0099 and everyone else who commented with suggestions, I really appreciate the tips to try to keep my baby in the house!
Thankyouthankyouthankyou.
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