The Sims 3: Guide to Having and Caring for Babies and Toddlers
Getting pregnant and having kids in The Sims is one way to pass on a legacy or a fortune, or it’s something new, lest we get bored with our old characters. In The Sims 3, knowing if your Sim is pregnant will help you a great deal with the pregnancy.
So how do you get kids anyway?
There are 3 ways for that.
First, and the most obvious one is make one in Create-A-Sim mode. The baby will need at least one grown-up to live with him/her.
Second would be to adopt a baby, a toddler or a child. Use your Sim’s cellphone or any phone in your Sim’s house and call the adoption agency. Before the agency representative arrives at you Sim’s house, there will be a message box where you will have to choose the age of the child your Sim will be adopting (baby, toddler, child). After choosing, the agency representative will arrive at your house shortly and deliver the baby.
The third way to get kids is to have 2 Sims with a high enough relationship and love interest, try for a baby. Like from Sims 2, if your Sims have successfully made a baby, you will hear a lullaby after they try for a baby. Unlike The Sims 2 however, the try for baby option is still available after successful fertilization.
Q. What if I missed hearing the lullaby, how do I know that my Sim is pregnant?
A. A nauseous moodlet will appear.
Pregnancy
Aside from the nauseous effect of pregnancy, your Sim will need frequent bathroom breaks, eat a lot and get tired easily. You have to take care of your Sim because a good pregnancy means having a healthy baby with great traits to boot.
Q. My Sims wants to read a pregnancy book. Why and where can I buy it?
A. Expecting parents like to know a lot about parenting and helpful tips during pregnancy, this helps the pregancy to go smoothly. You can buy the books at the bookstore. There are 2 default pregnancy books which have the words preggy and baby on them 
Raising Babies
Unlike in The Sims and The Sims 2, you can now see the needs of babies. Fulfilling babies’ needs are easy. Here are the ways to fill their need bars: (all these with your teen/young adult/adult/elder Sim as the active Sim)
Hunger – give bottle. 1 bottle will fill the bar (click the baby, choose give/feed bottle)
Energy – Put in crib (N.B. Babies and toddlers don’t sleep until they’re really tired)(click the crib and choose put *baby* in crib)
Social – 1 social interaction will fill the bar (click the baby, choose snuggle or toss in air)
can you have a baby if you have the dont like children trait?
I cant remember a trait like that, but definitely the sim can have children even if the sim dislikes them
Hey i want to know how anyone can raise TEN children when i can barely raise 3?
i am getting the sims 3 shortly it sounds brilliant
Thank you so much! (a beginner)
how do i throw a party cause every time i press throw a party at the beach the party is not for the baby cause if it was the wish that the daddy made to throw a party is still there help help help!
Thanks!
I love the sims3~
@ missy you can use cheats to manage all of them, or pause the game a lot to make them have a lot of things to do. when you’re already playing with a lot of sims, having too few is kinda boring
@ taylor you have to throw a birthday party, for it to be for the baby. I’m not sure if you could choose a location for that but I think you are allowed to. anyway, just to be safe, throw the birthday party at home.
@ wind and @ lola rea thanks too
I love being able to help out, and you guys being grateful is too much for me 
i’ll be posting some sims 3 tutorials soon, please check them out as well 
Is it possible to have babies on the sims 3 for iPod touch? If so how?
uh i dont know how to lul the baby Fiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh….. this is truly helping….
How do I potty train a baby I dont live with?
my sims who are young adults r not making any babies. They try for babies alot. They even have the fetility life reward. However they continue to try for babies without sucesss.
Do u have any idea why i am having this problem?
I relly want that two sims will get merried and they love each other and it is as green as it can be (the friendship bar) but I don’t get the option, plus they even have children together plzplz help
2. when I got really desperet I did the cheat testingcheatsenabled trues, I could control her with out them getting merried and now I can’t get her out of the house! do you know if I can undo the cheat?
I’m playing sims3 on nintendoDS n its not letting me make a baby, n when I went on the phone it didn’t have a adoption agency. Can someone help I want me sim have a baby??????????
So you pepole don’t know anything bout TS3 well if you ask me some questions i will tell you the correct awnser.
How do you buy a crib?
@Jay
I have no idea why you are having this problem, but if you have the newest update fopr sims, you can enter testingcheatsenabled true in the cheat box (ctr,shift, c) and if you hold down shift and click on your sim, you can choose the edit my sim option and just creat a toddler(you cant make babies). Hope this helps, ive never had this problem, i just have the issue with only being able to have boys…i hate that!
@Jay I suggest 3 things,
1. Make sure both the people have their needs at green level, that they both love each other, that they both have fertility treatment and that they are in a comfortable bed with a clean surroundings. Try everyday 3 times or more a day, then eat lots of fruit, watch Kid Zone on the telly, read pregnancy books and listen to children’s music.
2. Adopt a kid.
3. Make two new people and try again.
@Place122 unfortunly for TS3 on Nintendo D.S you can not have babies/children/teenagers as it is too hard for them to controll!
@ Jasmine, sorry I don’t know if it’s possible. Haven’t tried playing it there, but chances are it isn’t supported in iTouch
@t2dirb I’m not sure if you can. Have you tried visiting the baby’s house and potty training the baby there? Of course you would need the potty chair.
@jay re: not having babies. Maybe your sims has a glitch? I haven’t had that problem ever. Maybe one of your sims has the “Don’t like kids” trait. If one of the sims have that trait, I don’t think they’ll have kids.
@Dgirl You need to do romantic options with the sim. They have to think that each other is alluring, and then you should propose to go steady (It’s either in the normal interactions or romantic interactions). When you go steady, you’ll then be bf/gf From there you can propose marriage.
MISSEY I LIVE KIDS AND I DONT CARE HOW MANY SOMEONE MAY HAVE ILL DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO KEEP THEM HAPPY
MISSEY I LIVE KIDS AND I DONT CARE HOW MANY SOMEONE MAY HAVE ILL DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO KEEP THEM HAPPY
I have searched everywhere and for the life of me can’t figure out how to move out my adult son and his wife. I have a wish of having 10 children with my default sims, but I can’t seem to move out the sims and keep him apart of the family tree so that wish can be fulfilled. If I kick them out or move and leave them behind, they disappear not only from the family tree, but entire game! I should also mention I’m playing on xbox360. Which is definitely different from the PC version in that area. It’s easy to do it on PC.? Help!?
My sim just recently had a baby and he wants to be fed how do I feed him when there is a bubble coming up saying action failed your sim cannot reach there try moving furniture around but I already have Howe do I do this please reply ASAP
My sim just recently had a baby and he wants to be fed how do I feed him when there is a bubble coming up saying action failed your sim cannot reach there try moving furniture around but I already have Howe do I do this please reply ASAP
my sims likes to suck dick