I find infants and toddlers difficult to enjoy to play with because they are too annoying, everytime an infant or toddler Sim cries for attention the adult Sims have to cancel literally everything else and prioritize their babies instead of anything else. The other thing that makes this worse is the fact that even with autonomy off, Sims will check their infants anyway. Can Maxis please fix this annoying issue soon?
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I've gone through quite a few toddlers, and the way I manage is to not let caretakers take care of them at all, except baths and a bit of social. My tots are busy having fun and learning all day, between taking care of needs. I always have food in the fridge for them, and I drag the plate out so the little ones can help themselves. I always also have a night light so they can sleep well all night.
Have to mention, I usually only play Independent toddlers, maybe also Angelic. They are easiest to handle by far. Independent tots don't even need potty training. Also have to mention, I let MCCC tuner take care of the pointless "Check toddler" interaction, meaning caretakers won't autonomously drop everything to "check on toddler" constantly. Sims are not smarter this time around, and certainly not around their offspring.
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I posted about this recently too (thought I got my infants mixed up as toddlers) but I found it so draining! I felt like I literally couldn't do anything! I was unfortunate that my first ever science baby, and taste of the new infants, was twins!
I ended up aging them up and I've not had a chance to play since but I admit the constant "check child " is frustrating! Especially when I was trying to get things done with the other infant and it was all just cancelled 🙄
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Yess same here, most actions just get cancelled because of the forced infant checking up ”idle” animation thing or whatever that is called…it seems to be a glitch too for many people…yikes
Also nannies are broken again it seems. My Sims household keeps getting 3-4 nanny NPCs spawning and I hired just one, and every Nanny wants to check up on the same Infant or Toddler. I tried to feed an Infant Sim on a high chair but the nannies just went to the dinner room and didn't put the infant on the chair, and it seems like the infant didn't even get the milestone(?) required for high chair feeding, so maybe this is another glitch…
Just keep them alive and in your household. That's the overall goal. And have FUN.
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I find it helps if I select the infant and then ask to be fed, put to bed,... If the infant gives the task, the adults obey nicely. If I select the adult to do an infant related task, they sometimes don't actually complete it.
I played longer for the Infants, which is also hard.
For me, I try and make the adults outnumber the Infants or Toddlers. It makes it easier to get them taken care of, and if the parent needs to rest, I can pass the care on to another family member.
For single parents with infants/toddlers, which are all science babies so far, I tend to have them focus on them when they are awake, but when they take naps, the parent either catches up on their sleep or do what they need to do.
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I started having flashbacks to when my daughter was a newborn, and life was catching naps any time she fell asleep, and giving her a bath while still covered in mess myself, and noooooo, this was too much reality for me, I wanted a cute wiggly game thing! This is why I never bought the Parenthood pack, homework and trying to teach values is Too Much Reality for fun playtime. o.o #singleparenting
My current infants are spending all their time on the playmat, looking at toys. I hired a butler to help, but all she did was stand nearby and occasionally change a diaper. Until the infants got old enough to scoot, at which point I can have them ask her to be fed or put to bed. I am a GOOD PARENT, and I can DO THIS without cheats! *curls up in the corner with a juice box and teddy bear for comfort*
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It's just not something my RL infant would have done, EVER.
This game won't remotely resemble RL infant care at least until they regularly make your adult sim stand there for 3 hours trying to soothe to sleep, infant finally asleep for 2 minutes, adult leaves room, infant immediately wakes up and starts screaming.
And yes, for me it is a problem because I love to play with farms and eco-sustainable ranches and there are MANY things to care and worry about, especially the farm animals, like chickens, cows and llamas, they literally need attention all the time, and now horses and goats and sheep too. It is impossible for me to enjoy playing with bigger households with adults, infants, toddlers and farm animals without having to take care of them 24/7, also it seems like the feeder object isn't upgradeable to become an automated feeder so goats, sheep and horses won't need to get taken away from my extremely busy Sims
So then infants got added and everyone complained "oh infants are so annoying to take care of because adult sims have to micromanage them so much that the adult sims can barely function." So I kind of think the whole infant stage getting added was a monkey's paw finger curling down.
I actually find infants pretty easy to take care of - if you have a "can breastfeed" sim, then you don't have to deal with bottles. The infants can't walk so they don't get up to mischief, and you can just leave them on the playmat thing and they'll sleep there and then wake up later and play with the mobile.
What I find even easier is to simply cheat the needs of the infants and toddlers to be green so they can do whatever while my adult sims do other things.
I know infants/toddlers are difficult to take care of in real life, but with how things are in the sims - you know, people taking 30 minutes to pee, standing around chatting while ignoring the thing you told them to do, whatever - it does seem like they're OVERLY hard to take care of. So, again, that's why I just cheat.
I'm at baby number 43 of a personal challenge (wherein I get the mama sim pregnant basically immediately after the birth of a baby) so, you know, lots of overlapping newborns/infants/toddlers. I've discovered one tip is to hire a butler. Every time I've had a nanny to help with the newborns/infants/toddlers, the nanny basically does absolutely nothing except tutor homework and cook food - doesn't clean, doesn't TAKE CARE OF THE BABIES. But the BUTLER sure does. Butler cleans, does gardening, goes over to tend to a crying baby efficiently.
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There are a few things I find really annoying about infants. First, the food you try in the high chair isn't very good at filling hunger. Even if they love it and eat everything, they're still not full. And recently my adult sim ALWAYS takes the infant back out of the crib after putting them to bed. SO annoying, just let them get their sleep! I also hate how "Help try first baby food" makes the adult/teenage sim cancel whatever they're doing atm and go to the infant. Also, they sometimes don't do things in the order I tell them to. Like, I tell the adult sim to change the diaper, then put to bed and then play a lullaby. Instead, they'll put to bed, change the diaper, and then play a lullaby, leaving the infant screaming on the floor.