This is a deeply immersive childbirth overhaul for The Sims 4, designed to bring realism and nuanced storytelling to pregnancy, labor, birth, and postnatal care. It requires the Get to Work expansion pack and integrates a host of interactive systems—from ultrasounds to nursing training.
Key Features & Mechanics
Birth Options & Labor Mechanics
Sims can choose between hospital births (natural or C-section) with optional epidurals, or home births attended by a midwife.
The labor process can include dilation management through activities such as walking, breathing exercises, yoga-ball use, back massages, baths, or pitocin (which speeds things up but introduces a small risk of uterine rupture).
Sims may also face birth emergencies, such as stalled labor or complications requiring emergency interventions.
Medical Support & Prenatal Care
Sims use their phone to call an obstetrician, schedule pregnancy checkups, or arrange ultrasound scans.
Medical interactions include dilation checks, epidural administration, and the option to monitor pregnancy complications like PPROM or placental ruptures—which may result in premature births or require neonatal intensive care settings.
Birth Certificate & Ancillaries
Sims receive a customizable birth certificate after delivery.
Following childbirth, features like lactation enable pumping (with bottles to inventory), breast pad usage, formula creation, and milk storage.
Postpartum dynamics include issues like stretch marks (optionally toggled), mastitis (treatable with medication), and assistance via pumping or nursing.
Gender Reveal & Family Events
Offers gender reveal parties with interactive items such as balloon arches, cakes, and themed props. Guests can get moodlets based on their guesses and reactions.
Education & Hospital Career System
Sims can attend nursing school as teens or older, complete clinical rotations, and graduate into a midwifery career.
Midwives can perform tasks like blood tests, ultrasounds, home visits, and both standard and emergency childbirth procedures.
Emergency & Healthcare Support
Adds neonatal care features: incubators for premature or weak infants, health conditions like jaundice or anemia, and options for treatment and monitoring.
Family members can visit new mothers in the hospital, provide greeting cards, or simply offer social support.
Settings & Customization
The mod includes a “Childbirth Settings” menu, accessible via shift-click, to customize or cheat: skip dilation, disable stretch marks, control labor emergencies, auto-graduate nursing school, and even trigger birth complications or maternal collapse.
Editor's Note:
PandaSama’s Childbirth Mod elevates the Sims’ maternity experience with a full suite of pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and medical-care interactions. With education paths, emergency realism, postpartum mechanics, and social events like gender reveals, it’s an exceptionally rich storytelling tool for family-focused gameplay.
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