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#1 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 12:57 AM
Default Pregnancy experience
My sim is going through pregnancy!

I am not yet so big about story progression since I am still building up my town with interesting sims. But through some "Socialize: Romance" at a recent party, my sim went a bit too far (without even me looking) and she had a thing with her co-worker (which happened to be a Business career night out with all employees). I didn't know about this until a few days later when she is wearing something completely different and is 15 days until work day (right in the middle of weak days). Immediately I said "Oh no".

I knew who the father is, because I could guess how it happened to a "Shy" girl because I initiated the "Socialize: Romance" (but was hoping for a couple harmless flirts). But instead of abortion (through mods only), I decided to go along with it.

I have to say, this is the most special experience ever, even only happen in a "virtual" world. It's priceless when "announce pregnancy" to the whole household as well as the unfortunate father. She spends a lot more time staying over at his place. This feels a lot like "Knocked Up" (2007 movie). All these "Ask to feel tummy" and "talk to tummy", etc.. interactions are sooo cute

It is 20 hours until delivery, this is going to be great. I wonder how I am going to get the father to be there when she delivers though. I never knew I am having such a blast. However, as the screenshots show, Jenny has a boyfriend already. I don't know how to break it up to him that he is not the father, or even if TS3 allows me to do so. It feels wrong, but it was an accident. Jenny feels obligated in a way to spend some nights with the child's father, whom she also has romantic interest in. The guy is, of course, head over heel for her. But the other guy asked first, and she moved in with him just prior to this event. Honestly, I didn't plan this. I am so evil to allow this to happen

Gotta thanks CmarNYC for the pregnancy morph fix so her belly looks right when nude or wearing swimsuit.
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#2 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 2:40 AM
lol Tomomi, ah the joys of risky sims.

I had just started a new city yesterday, it was about 2 sim days when my sim Kiwi met some guy and seemed to hit it off right away. (he's a little on the rather hefty side and not very attractive..) but I figured ah well let them have "fun" in the theatre (no stings attached sort of thing with risky woohoo %10) anyways, suddenly I hear the woohoo chime at least 5 times while they were in there and I'm thinking OMG, must be some glitch, I only clicked it once! Sigh, next thing I know she is bent over the toilet with a mysterious sickness... I didnt have the heart to abort it.. hopefully he'll (he was just born) turn out cute as he ages. :P
Mad Poster
#3 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 2:50 AM
I know this should go to the WCIF section but what risky woohoo and abortion mods are you using?

I like the announce pregnancy interaction, even thou EA made it a bit useless because the woman doesn't know she's pregnant until she pops, and then other people will already have belly related interactions, even thou she has not yet told them she's pregnant. But, still, I like announcing it.
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#4 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 3:24 AM
Don't worry about the father being at the hospital, somehow they know and come automatically. Then he will go home with them after the birth.

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#5 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 3:31 AM
Question, why does your sim have so many days off? lol. Do you have a mod for pregnancy as well?
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#6 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 4:42 AM
What's "Socialize: Romance?" Is it included in some mod?
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#7 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 5:30 AM
Quote: Originally posted by qpldmff
What's "Socialize: Romance?" Is it included in some mod?


Buzzler's Moar Interactions mod: http://linna.modthesims.info/download.php?t=437344

I can't go without that mod. I hope and pray he keeps it up for Generations.

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#8 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 5:36 AM
I always thought the "Socialize" menu is part of EA standard. in the Socialize menu, there are "Romance, Friendly, Mean, Evil, etc...." which sets a tone and let your sims ramble on and on without having you to micro manage a long queue. But if it is not EA standard, here is what I use:

- "Whoohooer" by Twallan

- AwesomeMod

- Buzzler's Moar Interactions (can be found here on MTS).

Quote: Originally posted by ani_
I know this should go to the WCIF section but what risky woohoo and abortion mods are you using?

I like the announce pregnancy interaction, even thou EA made it a bit useless because the woman doesn't know she's pregnant until she pops, and then other people will already have belly related interactions, even thou she has not yet told them she's pregnant. But, still, I like announcing it.

ani_, I didn't even attempt Risky Whoohoo, I just used Socialize menu and let sims socialize on their own (hence leading to this ... catastrophe when I was not looking). About abortion, there is no mod to abort, but I would have to use (and tested) with Master Controller by Twallan to "End Pregnancy" under Advanced or Intermediate sim menu. It just immediately made pregnancy go away as if it never existed. So no real "abortion" (anti roleplaying, honestly) but it was a way to undo what was done.

In fact I did not get any belly reaction. Maybe because Jenny lives with her boyfriend Michael only. And somehow this guy is a bit thick, like the way he looks, and somehow just went along with the whole thing. But maybe I did announce pregnancy before he got a chance to notice. The father, Albert, also took it as is, I am not even sure he knows the baby is his. He is the guy in black leather jacket and glasses in the screenshot. Michael the boyfriend is the big fat tall guy (I used Height slider for it in case anyone wonder). However, Albert did have a moodlet to read a pregnancy book. So somehow, he knows.

Quote: Originally posted by lewisb40
Don't worry about the father being at the hospital, somehow they know and come automatically. Then he will go home with them after the birth.

Truth is, since the father is not even exactly in the same household, he didn't know and didn't come when the baby was delivered. When the water broke, the only interaction Jenny got was "Go to Hospital", so it would be impossible for me to notify the father. And I thought of having Jenny's boyfriend calling the father, but he is not supposed to know the child was not his, not just yet, so making him call in another man on his significant other's significant event would seem .... awkward.

IT IS A BOY!. I refrained from doing as little influence as possible (no watermelon or whatever eating) and let nature runs its course on deciding gender. I haven't done much afterward, but I did go ahead to CAS Edit (Master Controller) and raise the boy to Teen/Young Adult to see what he looks like. But seriously, he looks SOOOO much like Albert (but not like a clone). He has a plum cheek (like mother) but other than that, everything looks so much like father: babyface, and those eyes! I wonder how Michael will think when the child gets older.

About that 15 days off, I don't know. How many days of maternity leave should I get? Jenny does occasionally receive money from work as well.

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#9 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 5:41 AM
I was talking about if the father is not a part of the household. That is strange he didn't come, when my single mothers have their babies, the father always come to the hospital, even if he is in a different household.

Congratulations on the boy!

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#10 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 6:04 AM
I've been using Twallan mods ( <3) Risky woohoo is available for most sims without needing a relationship. Although I wish there was a mod to adopt kids out to get rid of any kids you dont want... ahem...... of all the times my sims have gotten pregnant, the father always shows up when she goes to the hospital so I cant see why you would have issues with that.
btw Kiwi's little boy ended up kinda cute, so all is good
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#11 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 6:40 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Apocryphallen
I've been using Twallan mods ( <3) Risky woohoo is available for most sims without needing a relationship. Although I wish there was a mod to adopt kids out to get rid of any kids you dont want... ahem...... of all the times my sims have gotten pregnant, the father always shows up when she goes to the hospital so I cant see why you would have issues with that.
btw Kiwi's little boy ended up kinda cute, so all is good

Oh, somehow Albert did not show up. Maybe it was 4am in the morning? I am not sure what part of "he knows" that he really knows, beside the knowing to buy a $500 book on Pregnancy topic.

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#12 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 7:31 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Apocryphallen
I've been using Twallan mods ( <3) Risky woohoo is available for most sims without needing a relationship. Although I wish there was a mod to adopt kids out to get rid of any kids you dont want... ahem...... of all the times my sims have gotten pregnant, the father always shows up when she goes to the hospital so I cant see why you would have issues with that.
btw Kiwi's little boy ended up kinda cute, so all is good


With the super computer, if you wan to remove unwanted kids, you can remove them from the family then with the moveobjects cheat you can delete them from the family. It works every time, however once the baby comes and I name it, I kinda find it hard to remove them.
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#13 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 5:04 PM
Quote: Originally posted by tomomi1922
Oh, somehow Albert did not show up. Maybe it was 4am in the morning? I am not sure what part of "he knows" that he really knows, beside the knowing to buy a $500 book on Pregnancy topic.


Doesn't matter what time of day the labor happens, morning, noon, evening, or night the father comes to the hospital. Even if they are at work, the father knows. The boyfriend may know he is not the father at the time of birth since he is not normally invited in the hospital at the time of birth.

I played a romantic, commitment issued sim that was with another guy at the time of labor. Yeah, she still was romancing the guys in town, pregnancy didn't stop her. When she went to the hospital it was late evening, about 11pm. When she got to the hospital, all the guys she romanced were in front of the place, looked like they all thought there was a chance they were the father. The father came running to the hospital and stepped inside, all the other guys had his face in their thought bubbles with a red cross over it. I laughed, but knew my sim was in trouble with those guys and sure enough, they had issues with her later. The poor father had issues too, had to fight all the time. Good thing he was in the athletic field and had lots of athletic skill points, cause he won all the fights. I had to give that game up, cause of the problems with WA and blue lots in that game, but really enjoyed playing that floozy.

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#14 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 5:48 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Apocryphallen
Although I wish there was a mod to adopt kids out to get rid of any kids you dont want.


An alternative to London~Taylor's approach would be to use the "Add Sim" in MasterController to transfer the child into a different family in town.

That way the child can grow up, and you don't have to worry about all the messy child-care business.

I did that with a number of my children, and it worked fabulously.


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#15 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 6:16 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Apocryphallen
Although I wish there was a mod to adopt kids out to get rid of any kids you dont want... ahem......
I guess EA was too scared to give us abortions, so it gave us the next best thing, boarding schools.
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#16 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 11:19 PM
That's true, as long as you have the money.

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#17 Old 29th Apr 2011 at 11:35 PM
I replayed the labor scene a couple times. No, the love interest Albert (and that there is, a love interest, not even boyfriend, living in different lot) was never notified. I even zoomed out to find him, he was content at sleeping.

It is also verified that he is the father because after the baby is born, his family tree does show the actual parents' portraits and names. That would take any guess work and doubt out of it. I think the game just consider Michael, the boyfriend and currently living together with Jenny on the same lot, in the role to support her during delivery. That is the only explanation that the biological father was never notified about the birth at all.

Quote: Originally posted by twallan
An alternative to London~Taylor's approach would be to use the "Add Sim" in MasterController to transfer the child into a different family in town.

That way the child can grow up, and you don't have to worry about all the messy child-care business.

I did that with a number of my children, and it worked fabulously.


I think if I want the child to disappear, I would have gone through numerous ways. But ... moving the child away from any of his parents and let NPC raise them ... seem a bit too cruel.

Game technical wise, it would work. But ... that is like sending the kid to orphanage when both parents are alive, kicking, and having a lot of money.

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#18 Old 30th Apr 2011 at 5:28 AM
Quote: Originally posted by twallan
An alternative to London~Taylor's approach would be to use the "Add Sim" in MasterController to transfer the child into a different family in town.

That way the child can grow up, and you don't have to worry about all the messy child-care business.

I did that with a number of my children, and it worked fabulously.



OooOoo I like this. I dont have to feel bad about it hehee, and still get to see he/she grows up?! Yay

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