Falling face first into dinner!
cwieberdink:
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 September 29, 20:48:27
Funny how at the time it makes sense to just change your mind. "I'll just have this baby another time. I would like to go home, please."
That's why I do it at home in the first place Brynne ;-) Everyone prefers to be there.
C
Brynne:
Really nowhere to escape to if you do it at home!
MissDoh:
This never happened to me yet and I had 5 woman pregnant since I got Nightlife.
I normally make the husband "serve meal" before he goes to work so the pregnant mom won't have to cook. If it is alone or the husband works late and it needs to eat fast I make it have an "instant meal" and then make it a normal meal. Depending on how hungry it is I either make or serve a meal (cereal get wasted too fast so in the morning it is not the best one to "serve").
I buy a bed with at least 4 in comfort and 4 in energy which is the minimum for a pregnant Sim in my opinion.
Once she is up, I make it go to the bathroom, take a bath and then eat or eat 1st and then do the rest. I always hire a maid which is not that expensive. I make it watch tv, study in books or read a book and wathc tv. I also make it write in the diary if it is a shy Sim so it will get comfort, fun and social while doing it. Relaxing and "daydreaming" on the bed will do about the same for more outgoing Sims. If the needs are high I make it call a friend and talk for not more than 1 Sim hour at a time.
As soon as 1 need get too the middle level, I make sure to fulfill it except for energy, I wait until it is 1/3 full and send the sim to bed. So far this technique have worked for me.
Witches:
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 September 29, 19:57:21
Actually, in my experience,"building" the baby was pretty easy. Now, "birthing" the baby was a pain in the ass. Literally. ;) Especially when the baby is over 9 lbs. I seriously begged my obstetritian for a c-section, no joke. My mom and husband overheard his phone call to another ob/gyn, and he was saying "I have a healthy mom and a healthy baby, and the mom is refusing to push! What should I do???". He was making arrangements for an emergency c-section, when I decided to go ahead and push. I've always been a bit stubborn.
I always have the husband or another sim in the household do all the cooking and cleaning for the pregnant sim, so all she has to do is whine continuously. When I got the game a year ago and had little experience in sim-pregnancy, my pregnant sim died because she was in a deadlock: too tired to eat, too hungry to sleep. I didn't have hacks installed in the game, yet, either, so it was frustrating. Never leave pregnant sims to take care of themselves!
LOL! My baby was 8.5 pounds so I can relate ... didn't mean to imply that birthing was a snap. I didn't use drugs, and I've never screamed so much in my life. Lamaze, in my experience, was a waste of time. You've got to breathe deep and scream through those contractions. It helps. Very satisfying. Panting, my ass. I think the "I want to go home now" is a very normal reaction. I think every mom thinks at some point, "what the hell have I gotten myself into?" :o
Actually, I've had lots of single sim moms that lived by themselves get through pregnancy relatively easily. They just order pizza and sleep a lot. One trick I use if a lot of needs are heading toward orange is send them to bed until sleep is at least in the yellow, then get up, use the potty/eat something/take a shower before going back to bed again. Repeat as needed.
The energizer machine works too, of course, but they have to be at least in the gold, of course, or you could kill Mom and Baby.
I agree that a comfy bed is a plus. I always splurge, now, on at least a comfort 4, for everyone unless they're completely broke. Lazy sims, especially, wake up much more refreshed after a long shift at the hospital, for example. :)
Vesca:
Sim moms want to eat more, sleep more and use the bathroom more (just like in real life), so those are the three things you really have to keep an eye on. If they even start nearing the half-way point, get them taken care of right away and make hunger your first priority, unless, of course, she is going to wet herself or pass out. I'm constantly feeding my sim mom - never letting her hunger get to the half-way point, because once it does, it seems to bottom out real fast from that point. Just like Witches, if I have to wake her up to feed her and use the bathroom, I will, then send her back to bed. She is my top priority Sim.
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