I Have a Bit of a Problem, My Sim Parents Won't Care For Their Infant

GalacticGal · June 2023

I'm growing concerned. For about five minutes I tried to get the mother to change the Infant's diaper. The baby is also hungry and tried. Dad came into the nursery, so I decided with all of the failed attempts, I'd have him give it a go. I selected Super-Efficient Baby Care and nothing. In the meantime, I selected give Infant a Bubble Bath, as he's clearly blown out his shorts. So, Mom simply picks up the Infant and places the really messy little dude on the floor. I saved and exited my game. Too frustrating to carry this on. I may have to resort to restoring his needs via MCCC, if this keeps up. I'm hard-pressed to understand just what has gotten into my Family Sims. Yikes. Any clues as to what I should do before I resort to cheating?

Please, and thank you, in advance.

Lenny_Ogg · June 2023

First aid could be shift click 👉 reset or shift click 👉 make happy or reload the safe.
I had this a few days ago when they all refused to do anything and reset just worked out for the next action. Then I reloaded and all was fine.

GalacticGal · June 2023

Lenny_Ogg wrote: »

First aid could be shift click 👉 reset or shift click 👉 make happy or reload the safe.
I had this a few days ago when they all refused to do anything and reset just worked out for the next action. Then I reloaded and all was fine.

Thanks! I tried to reset Mom, but she just continued to stand there as if she's done with the whole childcare business. LOL I will restart my game in a bit. Just needed a moment to decompress.

Ellupelluellu · June 2023

GalacticGal wrote: »

she just continued to stand there as if she's done with the whole childcare business.

Kayleigh has had her share of baby caring, after all that many kids. Family sim or not. So I would not wonder if she feels that time to time

GalacticGal · June 2023

Ellupelluellu wrote: »

GalacticGal wrote: »

she just continued to stand there as if she's done with the whole childcare business.

Kayleigh has had her share of baby caring, after all that many kids. Family sim or not. So I would not wonder if she feels that time to time

Well, at least in this game save she's not prone to taking her solace in juice from the bar. LOL The sad thing is Peter really needs the help right now. Poor wee fella is stinky and has that gross grubby look all over him. Must really be bad when you can't stand the smell of yourself, you know?

Simmingal · June 2023

I would probably just cheat infants needs once and reset everyone so sims would stop glitching

if routing fails then teleport the infant / other sims somewhere else

it seems to me that once infants needs go too low they start autonomously summoning all sims to help them

which leads to the infant hot potato game where sims keep giving infant to each other putting infant on the floor etc instead of getting even one dang interaction actually done

also if all needs are low its usually that the infant is too tired to do anything at all so even if its illogical i let them sleep little bit first before i attempt to fill other needs

also yes it might be good idea to lock your infants in tower with only one evil caregiver because the hot potato game gets in the way so much

better yet it might even be good idea to neglect the little bundle of joy completely and just lock them in that tower with Kyle and let autonomy do it all

GalacticGal · June 2023

@Simmingal This line got me roaring, "also yes it might be good idea to lock your infants in tower with only one evil caregiver because the hot potato game gets in the way so much."

Thanks for my much-needed Morning Chuckle. Took me a bit to recover from laughing so hard. (It did seem as if he was a hot potato. Kayleigh held him ever so briefly before setting him on the floor next to his crib. Then Erik did pretty much the same, although he actually placed him in the crib, to his credit. Made me think of my only daughter who has so many children and so young, who would holler "Baby on the floor." as a warning for the others to take heed.

All is well, finally. I exited the game and went back several minutes later, after deleting LE's and the Localthumbcache.package. I did end up cheating Peter's needs, but the poor little guy ended up so grimy-dirty with a constant green noxious cloud around his middle, that I began to wonder if he was just too toxic for his parents to even touch. Oi! Two bubble baths later, he was finally changed, fed and down for the night, where he achieved the Slept Through the Night milestone.

ETA: You know I keep hearing (reading) about this Kyle fella, and I have no source of reference. Who is he and why do so many speak unwell of him?

Ellupelluellu · June 2023

GalacticGal wrote: »

ETA: You know I keep hearing (reading) about this Kyle fella, and I have no source of reference. Who is he and why do so many speak unwell of him?

He is premade from Growing Together. the one who is homeless and likes to crash at others homes

GalacticGal · June 2023

Ellupelluellu wrote: »

GalacticGal wrote: »

ETA: You know I keep hearing (reading) about this Kyle fella, and I have no source of reference. Who is he and why do so many speak unwell of him?

He is premade from Growing Together. the one who is homeless and likes to crash at others homes

Hm, thank you for the answer. I do have that EP but have yet to 'run into' him. Perhaps, because Erik is a celebrity?

Simmingal · June 2023

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Kyle_Kyleson

Solomutt · June 2023

GalacticGal wrote: »

I'm growing concerned. For about five minutes I tried to get the mother to change the Infant's diaper. The baby is also hungry and tried. Dad came into the nursery, so I decided with all of the failed attempts, I'd have him give it a go. I selected Super-Efficient Baby Care and nothing. In the meantime, I selected give Infant a Bubble Bath, as he's clearly blown out his shorts. So, Mom simply picks up the Infant and places the really messy little dude on the floor. I saved and exited my game. Too frustrating to carry this on. I may have to resort to restoring his needs via MCCC, if this keeps up. I'm hard-pressed to understand just what has gotten into my Family Sims. Yikes. Any clues as to what I should do before I resort to cheating?

Please, and thank you, in advance.

I've had this happen and I don't understand why. Today I tried to get Edmond to feed his infant daughter and he sat on the couch and the order kept vanishing. The poor baby's hunger bar was bright rd. I finally made him "'go here" by the crib and "pick up infant" to get him to feed her. Odd thing is, I didn't have to go through all that with the twin infant.

GalacticGal · June 2023

Solomutt wrote: »

GalacticGal wrote: »

I'm growing concerned. For about five minutes I tried to get the mother to change the Infant's diaper. The baby is also hungry and tried. Dad came into the nursery, so I decided with all of the failed attempts, I'd have him give it a go. I selected Super-Efficient Baby Care and nothing. In the meantime, I selected give Infant a Bubble Bath, as he's clearly blown out his shorts. So, Mom simply picks up the Infant and places the really messy little dude on the floor. I saved and exited my game. Too frustrating to carry this on. I may have to resort to restoring his needs via MCCC, if this keeps up. I'm hard-pressed to understand just what has gotten into my Family Sims. Yikes. Any clues as to what I should do before I resort to cheating?

Please, and thank you, in advance.

I've had this happen and I don't understand why. Today I tried to get Edmond to feed his infant daughter and he sat on the couch and the order kept vanishing. The poor baby's hunger bar was bright rd. I finally made him "'go here" by the crib and "pick up infant" to get him to feed her. Odd thing is, I didn't have to go through all that with the twin infant.

Guess she's one baby too many? Yikes.

Amapola76 · June 2023

I haven't played with the infants lately, but seem to recall that people have said that it's better to select the infant as the active sim and then click on the caregiver to request feeding, diaper change, etc. (As opposed to having the parent as the active sim and queuing up interactions on the infant.)

fujicakes1 · June 2023

I generally cheat needs, as someone else said above - and if you use the mccc mod you can add a happy buff, then change the emotion intensity to very happy, it's super effective at keeping babies and kids in a good mood, and less needy. And if all else fails I use cas.fulleditmode and age up the kid lol. I've had parents like that too. It can be super frustrating.

GalacticGal · June 2023

Amapola76 wrote: »

I haven't played with the infants lately, but seem to recall that people have said that it's better to select the infant as the active sim and then click on the caregiver to request feeding, diaper change, etc. (As opposed to having the parent as the active sim and queuing up interactions on the infant.)

Oh, believe me I tried that, too. Nothing was working. It was odd, because the day before when I played, I didn't have this problem at all. Thankfully, I followed the advice and exited my game.

GalacticGal · June 2023

fujicakes1 wrote: »

I generally cheat needs, as someone else said above - and if you use the mccc mod you can add a happy buff, then change the emotion intensity to very happy, it's super effective at keeping babies and kids in a good mood, and less needy. And if all else fails I use cas.fulleditmode and age up the kid lol. I've had parents like that too. It can be super frustrating.

Yes, it was so completely frustrating, especially since this set of parents are really into their kids. Erik is a Global Superstar, Rock Star in high demand, but he also realizes his kids will only be little for a short time. He's very hands-on, as a result.

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