I have never taken the hospital option. I didn't even know birth certificates were a thing.
Usually in larger families I'm coordinating the older siblings' skill building and such while mom is in labor rather than leaving the lot. Can't say why I've never done it with the firstborn child.
I usually do home births but that's because I don't have the expansion pack necessary to follow them to the hospital so it just feels like a waste to "send them to the hospital" when they aren't really going anywhere.
Really depends on how I feel at that moment. I've recently had my Sim go to the hospital and it's almost uncomfortable to watch them haphazardly play Operation lol. I do like that you get a birth certificate (which I usually will forget about anyway tbh) - and with the Style Influencer career, if you assess it, it will tell you that so-and-so is indeed a human baby lol.
Since I have had "Get to Work", I've always sent them to the hospital, I take the husband or baby daddy along too. I like the animations that go with it.
Home birth. I don't like that the hospital option is always a caesarean. It's vaguely funny the first time but also mildly horrifying. Also major surgery followed by being swiftly kicked out and sent home doesn't really make it much of an event. It would be nice if they got to stay overnight or checked up on after birth before going home.
I hate the animation for Hospital birth oh, but I want the birth certificates and I play a really large family so the mom is usually always exhausted and the fact that it fills up all green bars is too helpful to pass out hahaha!
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Usually in larger families I'm coordinating the older siblings' skill building and such while mom is in labor rather than leaving the lot. Can't say why I've never done it with the firstborn child.