Child Birth Mod
Download and learn how to get started with the Child Birth Mod, Get To Work is required for this mod
Download and learn how to get started with the Child Birth Mod, Get To Work is required for this mod
Mod Instructions
The Basics
Click on a toilet and select “take pregnancy test” after you sim woohooed to find out if they are pregnant.
Call the Obstetrician to make birth arrangements once your sim becomes pregnant.
Choose a birth option or go for an ultrasound appointment.
Many of the labor and pregnancy interactions such as Swaying, Back Massage and Bed Birth require a birth partner. Get a birth partner by clicking on a sim and "Ask to accompany Childbirth". 30+ romance or 70+ friendship is required for this interaction.
When your sim is In Labor, click on them and choose "Have Baby at Hospital" if you want them to do Natural Delivery or C-Section at the hospital, or "Start Home Birth" if you want them to give birth at home.
You can find the Childbirth Settings menu by shift clicking on your sim. There's lots of useful cheats in there including an option that allows your sim to skip the dilation process and give birth immediately.
Hospital Birth
You should see sparkles around your sims feet, if you don't see it or if it ever disappears when your sim is in labor, click on your sims and select "Have Baby at Hospital" "Join" again to get it back.
You will find Obstetricians located near the front of the hospital.
You can ask any obstetricians to give your sim an epidural or check their dilation. Your sim will only give birth when their dilation reaches 10cm, which can take up to two sim days. *Epidural is required for C-section.
There is a chance your epidural might fail, if it does, ask the obstetrician to replace it until you have the happy moodlet.
There are several ways to speed up your sim's dilation. Such as exercising on the yoga ball, asking the birth partner for a back massage, swaying with a birth partner, going for a walk, taking a bath or shower or doing the breathing exercise. Performing these activities can also help your sim ease their contractions.
You can click on a surgery machine and "Give Birth" when your sim is fully dilated, the surgery machine will transform into a birth bed.
Home Birth
Click on your sim and select "Start Home Birth", you should see sparkles around your sim's feet, if you don't see it or if it ever disappears when your sim is in labor, click on your sims and select "Start Home Birth" again to get it back.
You will now be able to "Call Midwife" using the phone. Midwives charge 120 Simoleon/hr. Sims who are in the doctor's career can also act as a midwife.
There are several ways to speed up your sim's dilation. Such as exercising on the yoga ball, asking the birth partner for a back massage, swaying with a birth partner, going for a walk, taking a bath or shower or doing the breathing exercise. Performing these activities can also help your sim ease their contractions.
Purchase a birth pillow if you are doing a bed birth(requires a birth partner) or a birth pool (requires a midwife) if you are doing a water birth. You may use the "give birth" interaction once your sim is fully dilated.
Ultrasound
You can share the pregnancy news with a romantic partner (30+ romance) when your sim becomes pregnant. Do not use the "share big news" interaction from the base game.
The animation has one happy version and two sad versions. You will only get the sad version if one or both sims have the "hates children" trait (or unwanted pregnancy using RPO).
You can then call the obstetrician and get an ultrasound scan.
Once at the hospital, press down "Ctrl" + "Shift" +"C" at the same time to bring up the cheat console, type in "Testingcheats true", press enter, then type in "bb.enablefreebuild" and press enter again to edit the lot.
Go to build and buy and purchase an ultrasound machine, you can search "ultrasound machine" or "pandasama" to find it.
Place down the ultrasound machine, click on it to start the scan.
Birth partners should join the ultrasound automatically, if they don't, you can click on the pregnant sim and select "join".
You will get an ultrasound photo in your sims inventory, you can then share the pregnancy news with friends and families. This interaction can be found under "friendly"and it requires 30+ friendship.
You can show the ultrasound scan to a friend(30+ friendship), the interaction can be found under "friendly" and you must have the scan in your sim's inventory.
You can nap with a friend or a romantic partner by clicking on the couch and select "Nap Together".
Pregnant sims can do pregnancy cuddles with their romantic partner.
Birth emergencies could happen during home birth, there's a 10% chance this will happen to a sim pregnant with 1 baby, and a 30% to a sim pregnant with multiples, you will see this notification and moodlet to let you know your sim might be experiencing a stalled birth. their dilation will slow down during stalled birth, but there is a chance it will return to normal after an hour.
If you have a midwife, asking them to check on the baby will speed things up.
You will get this notification if your sim requires an emergency C-section.
If you do not want to go to the hospital, just click on the close button on the top right corner, and things will return to normal, there is no penalty for doing so.
Emergency C-section works like a normal C-section, you must get a working epidural before you sim can give birth.
Sims will now get stretchmarks once they enter the third trimester, stretchmarks will fade completely in 3 sim days, you can disable stretchmarks or make it permanent in child birth settings.
Sims can now do unassisted birth, to do so place down a bassinet of your choice, when your sim is fully dilated you will be able to choose "unassisted Birth". Once you do that your sim will start giving birth immediately at where they are standing.
You can find cheats to disable birth emergencies or stretchmarks in the childbirth settings menu.
Lactation
Sims will automatically start to lactate after giving birth using a birth method from the child birth mod. you will get this moodlet letting you know they have enough milk for pumping.
you can click on the milk pump and pump both breasts, this item can be found by searching for "pump" or "pandasama" in build and buy
After a successful pumping session you will get a bottle of breast milk in your inventory, which can be fed to your kids (age baby to toddler) immediately or put in the fridge for storage.
Sims who are not nursing can also use the pump repeatedly to induce lactation.
You can eat lactation cookies to speed up milk production. Non nursing sims can also lactate if they enough lactation cookies, this item can be found by searching for "cookies" or "pandasama" in build and buy
You can also make baby formula. baby formula can be found by searching for "formula" or "pandasama" in build and buy
Both breast milk and formula milk can be stored in the fridge, you can click on the fridge and select "Get Milk" when you want to take it out.
Going too long without pumping can sometimes cause leakage and leave a stain on your sim's clothes, you can remove the stain by clicking on your sim and select "remove stained clothes" or taking a shower/bath
Your sim's lactation will stop within a day after you stop pumping or breastfeeding. but there is a chance they might develop mastitis.
You can take Tylenol to help the mastitis to go away, your sim will stop lactating soon after. This item can be found by searching for "Tylenol" or "pandasama" in build and buy.
You can disable lactation entirely or change your sim's level of milk supply in childbirth settings.
Weaning
Sims who are lactating can now "nurse" their toddlers, this interaction can be found under "Toddler Care". Toddlers can also initiate this interaction if their caregiver is lactating, and will do so autonomously when they are hungry. They will nurse until the toddler is full or until your sim runs out of milk. There is a 10% chance either sim will get a moodlet.
Once a toddler has been nursed at least once, you will be able to "Start Weaning" them when you are ready, this interaction can be found under "Toddler Care"
You can choose between "Quit 'Cold Turkey'" or "Gradual Weaning".
Quitting cold turkey will make your sim stop nursing immediately. but it will also make your toddler angry, you may choose to "Try to Explain Weaning", and give them an excuse or tell them the truth as to why they are not getting any more breast milk. Your toddler will either accept the explanation and happily move on, or they will continue to be angry for the next two days, and forget about it eventually.
Gradual Weaning will allow your sim to wean your toddler gradually, meaning they will still nurse them but they will only do so for a couple of minutes each time. And after two days they will stop completely.
The "Ultrasound" option is now replaced by "Get Pregnancy Checkups".
Your sim will get the pap result through the phone the next day. There is a chance your sim might have HPV but it does not require any treatment.
There is also a 15% chance your sim might have a Rh negative pregnancy. In which case they cam get a RhoGAM injection. You can either go right after after getting the phone call, or "Call obstetrician", "Get RhoGAM Injection" at a later date. There are currently no penalty for not taking the injection.
Just Click on the doctor and select "Get RhoGAM injection" After you arrive at the hospital
Sims can now get pitocin at the hospital to speed up their dilation, my new hospital bed is required for this interaction. Getting the Pitocin will make your sim become fully dilated, it can also be used to fix stalled labor. However there is a 2% chance your sim might get a uterine rupture, in which case they will be forced to give birth through emergency c-section.
You can trigger uterine rupture through childbirth settings for storytelling purposes.
Sims will now get a customizable birth certificate when giving birth through using the child birth mod
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FAQs
Need some help?
If you dont see "call obstetrican" under "Home" on your sims phone when they are pregnant it likely means the mod is not installed correctly, follow this tutorial to fix it.
You still have old versions files of the mod in your mods folder, double check your folder and remove the old files.
Get To Work is required for thei child birth mod, you cannot use the mod without it.
