Children in Sims Medieval

[Pam]

What I've discovered so far is that pregnancies last only about a day.  When the infant is born, he automatically gets a cradle.  It stays at the spot where the mother gave birth.  Mothers can feed (nurse) and cuddle babies.  I got a notice a couple of days later that the baby was about to grow up.  However, the camera didn't pan to it, so I didn't get to see it.  My queen was hunting bears at the time.  The baby went straight to a child.  The player does not control the child, but you can send him shopping and have access to his inventory.  Otherwise, it's just the normal interactions.  I'll post more information as I get it.  Right now, it's night time and the queen has gone to bed.  I don't know what the child will do.

[Musenapper]

Haha beat me to starting this thread.

The cradle can be moved in buy/build mode, handy!

Dad can cuddle the baby too.  For me I think ittook a day maybe day and ah alf to grow to child status.  I did get a notification.

I'm wondering to children have needs that we need to look after at all?  do we need to buy another bed?  No idea where I'd put it since they live in the tavern.  I think I have a second kid on the way lol.  Do we need to feed them so far I've never messed with making large meals.

I also wonder what Religion the child is in my case the Mother is Jacoban and the father my bard is agnostic.  No wait I don't htink children have one as my priest wasn't ever able to have the option to convert them. (which makes sense)

[Pam]

My queen's child slept in her bed the first night, so I believe they do need a bed.  I saw that he was hungry, but I didn't see how he got fed.  My first guess is that maybe the servant fed him.

Also, Mustnapper, we have a Spell Check button next to Post and Preview that would probably catch most of those typos. 

[Lilygirl]

My Doctor's children simply come home at night and sleep in their beds. In the morning they get dressed and spend the entire day running around town having sword fights with the other children. I put markers on them so I can check in every now and again. Apparently you can send them to the Shoppe for you. I haven't tried it yet but they're suppose to be able to shop for you and then you can grab the stuff from their inventory the next time you run into them. I have yet to catch any of my 3 children eating. They sleep, have sword fights, and play in the wash basins. Oh, and make wishes at the wells.

[Musenapper]

And they play with mirrors.  Mine spent his whole first night playing at the mirror and playing with his toy horse.  (Haven't bought him a bed yet, not sure where to stick it  in the taavern   )

[Ricalynn]

Children age up the moment the 24 hr had a child moodlet is gone.  They just pop into being a child.  No magic sparkles, cross-eyed faces or anything.  You get the notice about 3-6 hrs before the moodlet is up but the child never grows up until your just had a baby thing is gone.  They come home to sleep so generally it's a good idea to put a bed somewhere for them.  As for eating.  Apparently no one in the village eats.  My other heros even come over to eat at the place I'm working at the time.  I've just started having my Sims make large portions of everything.  As soon as they are a child you can interact with the child saying send to shoppe.  It's like all other interactions where you have to actually tell the child to do it but then they go and you get the shopping window to pop up shortly thereafter.  If you have the sim marker on for the child as soon as you see it coming down the village path you can click on the marker and say "show child's inventory" and hit the take all button to get everything you just bought.  If you have more than one child, sometimes if the other child takes the bed they had slept on the night before, the first child will just wash himself/play with his bear all night until the second child wakes up. 

[Pam]

@Ricalynn:

Do you just keep a bear out somewhere for the child to play with?  My queen's child isn't interested in anything I've bought him, that I can tell.

[Katluvr]

I have 2 families with 2 kids and a monarch with 1 kid.  I ended up giving each child his/her own bed, more because it felt wrong not to than because of any ill effect of not putting beds in for them.  I also make sure that there is a doll or a bear available for each.  They play with them sometimes but more often end up playing with other kids around the kingdom or making goofy faces at themselves in the mirror. 

I haven't been able to actually feed a child, other than as an infant, but if you put a large bowl of food on the table and call the family to the meal the kids will come eat if they are in the area.  There doesn't seem to be any change to relationship level whether you do this or not.

The other thing is you can cuddle someone else's infant.  My physician got pregant but I completed the quest before she delivered.  I still got to name the baby when it was born and I sent my active hero over to see and cuddle the nooboo.

I'm interested to hear about your experiences with traits.  In my 2 families with multiple kids (both from the same parents), one pair of siblings had identical traits and FF and the other had identical traits but different FF.  Has anyone noticed the same thing?  I wonder if it's random or if the same parents always produce the same traits and only the FF is random?

[Ricalynn]

Most of the time my children have very similar traits or FF and maybe one trait difference.  I think it's random but not that random as it may be based on the parents traits/FF.  I'm still not sure what's up with the naming of the children (swordsman/bloodletter/smith).  I can't figure out how it's chosen.  I think the next kingdom I'll try something.  At first I thought it was because it was auto choosing the father's profession but now I wonder if its because the fathers might be higher level heroes.  We'll see.

@ Pam - I usually just leave the teddy bear on the ground near their bed where it's not in the way of anything and they just plop down and play with it like the toddlers do in TS3 (except no cute biting of the ears).

[Katluvr]

I'm still not sure what's up with the naming of the children (swordsman/bloodletter/smith).  I can't figure out how it's chosen.  I think the next kingdom I'll try something.  At first I thought it was because it was auto choosing the father's profession but now I wonder if its because the fathers might be higher level heroes.  We'll see.

So far all my kids have been named after the father's profession.  In the case of my monarch's child, the monarch had the higher level and initiated the WooHooing but the child still ended up named after the father's profession.  If children are indeed named after their father's profession it would seem kind of odd to me.  After all, in real life you can always be certain of who the mother is, but it takes a blood test to verify who the father is.

[Ricalynn]

It could be the age old concept of just following in your father's footsteps.   In couples where only one was a hero, the child always takes the hero's job.  I think.     Also, I had one of my urchin children age up to be a soldier for my knight and then die during the quest.  It was sad but because they had known each other before the quest I knew it was the same kid.

[Joria]

For those of you who love green and blue on your Sims, hair color breeds true!  My monarch's son, L'il Smith Jonathan, has his mother's green hair.  Interesting that he isn't named "Prince" something or other.

[Jonna]

My monarch's son, L'il Smith Jonathan, has his mother's green hair.  Interesting that he isn't named "Prince" something or other.

I have a Prince Charming running around my kingdom!  He's a real handful too, always getting in sword fights! 

[Ricalynn]

It occurs to me that as long as you know the child's parents you are never going to see a child with the traits - Whale at my parents, Hopeful Orphan.  Or at least you shouldn't.


Also my lavender haired wizard had one child with purple hair ( the boy ) and one with dark hair like it's father (the girl).  So my kingdom has a purple haired little boy running around.

[CSquared2]

 Interesting that he isn't named "Prince" something or other.

That is interesting because my monarch just saw the birth of his first child, and she is Princess Joan.  It could be her name following her father's profession, as others have mentioned.  Her mother is the Smithmaster of Crafthole, but Joan still got the title "Princess."

I also saw the mother breastfeeding.  How cool is that?!  I hope that's not taboo to mention, since it is in the game, after all.  I hadn't seen explicit mention of it yet.