There’s two things I know life simmers love: having affairs and having babies—sometimes all at once, you sloppy drama hounds. Having a baby in Paralives isn’t quite as straightforward as you’ll be used to coming from The Sims. You’ve got to spot the right “together cards” in your conversation and then use Paralives’ special method for doing actions together to actually try for that baby. Here’s the quick guide to having a baby in Paralives followed by a walkthrough on each necessary step.
How to have a baby in Paralives
- Earn the “lovers” relationship label with another para
- Flirt together and discuss the state of your relationship by asking to have children together
- Select both paras in a group together and interact with a bed to “try for baby”
- Alternatively, adopt a baby at the hospital
Earn the lovers relationship label
This part isn’t hard for any seasoned life simmer. Use every opportunity you get while talking with your paramour to choose flirty together cards until your storyteller offers you a card to gain a point in the “lover” relationship label. After becoming lovers, you’ll be able to choose wants and together cards related to having children together.
This part may not actually be strictly necessary, but it’ll be a lot harder to draw the “try for baby” flirt card or succeed in convincing someone to have a baby together in a premeditated fashion without being lovers first, according to the success percent breakdowns for that card.
Ask to have children together
After getting flirty with your lover, you’ve got a couple options to open up the procreation conversation:
- Use the “ask if they want to try for a baby NOW” flirty together card
- Toggle through the “discuss state of relationship options” and choose the flirty “ask if they want to have children together in the future” card
“Try for a baby NOW” will send your paras immediately off to do the horizontal tango in bed together. This is a spur of the moment thing though, and doesn’t let you just try for a baby again whenever you like. For a little more consistency, instead of a wild fling, talk about your relationship first.
When you get the “discuss state of relationship” stack of together cards, which is a neutral white card on top, cycle through the options with the arrow button to find the pink flirty card that says “ask if they want to have children together in the future” (a classically flirty topic, I know). After selecting it, you’ll be notified that your two paras can now try for a baby “at any time, when they’re ready!” Except, wait, how?
❗ You can also use Paralives cheats “getpregnant” and “pregnantstatus” to make a para conceive and check the time until birth.
How to try for a baby
After discussing the emotional and financial demands of parenthood like a responsible paradult, how do you actually try for that baby? It relies on Paralives’ system for doing actions together. You’ll need to select both paras by clicking and dragging a box around them (if not in the same household) or holding Shift and clicking both portraits (if they are in a household together). With both paras selected, click on a bed and select “try for baby”.
After trying for a baby, you can send your conceiving para to any toilet with the interaction “take pregnancy test” which will let you know whether to expect a baby.
❗ To try for a baby successfully, you’ll need to have a Para who can get others pregnant paired with one who can get pregnant. You can use Paralives cheats to “editcharacter” and check the detailed gender info for your paras if you aren’t sure. Same sex paras can actually “try for baby” in a bed together but presumably won’t ever succeed. Look below for details on adoption.
❗Open your settings menu and look at your “storyteller” to double check the likelihood of becoming pregnant and the duration of trimesters and labor to find out how long your para will be pregnant based on the options you’ve set.
How to adopt
Instead of getting pregnant, or for paras who cannot get pregnant together, you’ll still want to have the conversation about having kids together in the “discuss state of relationship” card stack, as above. You’ll gain the label “prospective co-parent” in your relationship menu.
After that, either prospective parent can interact with the hospital or the pharmacy in town and select “adopt baby”. Your para will be busy for two hours and then exit with a new baby to name.