It may sound strange to you, but the occasional grunts coming from your newborn are perfectly normal.
If so, there is a mod that'll allow sims to autonomously marry (there's even a shotgun marriage if you so desire!). It does look intimidating at first but just read the FAQs and you'll have no problem with it and it even has modules for more customization and control. It's called Nraas StoryProgression and you can find it here: nraas.wikispaces.com. Baby Love Poses (Simprov Poses) Requested by Dblondepimpette, Includes 3 adult poses and 1 child pose. These poses are very versitile, you can place just about any object with them, you can add other sims, even large dogs.
As a new parent, you listen to every little sound and movement your baby makes. Most of the time, your newborn’s gurgling noises and squirms seem so sweet and helpless. But when they grunt, you may begin to worry that they’re in pain or need help.
Newborn grunting is usually related to digestion. Your baby is simply getting used to mother’s milk or formula. They may have gas or pressure in their stomach that makes them feel uncomfortable, and they haven’t learned yet how to move things through.
While most grunting is normal, if your baby is grunting with every breath, has a fever, or appears to be in distress, see your doctor.
This grunting may be a sign of a more serious respiratory problem and needs immediate attention.
When your baby grunts, it usually means they’re learning how to have a bowel movement. They haven’t yet figured out how to relax the pelvic floor while also using abdominal pressure to move stool and gas through their system. Their abdominal muscles are weak, and they must bear down with their diaphragm against their closed voice box (glottis). This leads to a grunting noise.
They will grunt until they can figure it out, so it may take a few months for your newborn to produce a bowel movement or pass gas without grunting. Some people call this grunting baby syndrome (GBS). Rest assured, it’s fairly common and rarely a sign of something serious.
Babies may also look like they’re straining, and a newborn’s head may turn purple or red in color. This may last for several minutes, according to an article in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (JPGN).
This shouldn’t be confused with constipation. Your newborn’s system is working correctly to produce excrement. Your baby just hasn’t figured out how to move it through. While the grunting is unpleasant, your newborn simply needs to get used to its new world.
You should confirm with your doctor that your baby’s grunting is normal.
If your grunting baby is simply learning how to have a bowel movement, the only true cure is for your newborn to learn how to relax their anus while pushing with their abdomen. This is something your baby will learn with time through trial and error.
Some doctors recommend that parents help their newborn by providing anal stimulation. This involves use of an anal thermometer or a piece of cotton to help stimulate the bowel. While this method usually works to help your baby have a bowel movement, it may have negative side effects in the long run. Your baby may eventually become dependent on this method to have a bowel movement. According to JPGN, repeated use of this method will delay your infant’s ability to learn the correct process for passing stool.
In most cases, the grunting starts in the first months of life and resolves on its own after a few weeks. Every baby is different. It all depends on how long it takes for your newborn to master the coordination of its bowel movements.
The grunting of a healthy child learning how to deal with digestion is different from the grunting of a sick baby.
Grunting with every breath is never normal. Grunting at the end of every breath could be a sign of respiratory distress.
If your baby is grunting often and also has other signs of illness, such as a fever, or appears to be in distress, see your doctor. This could be a sign of a serious medical condition and requires immediate attention.
Grunting with breathing could be a sign of:
- heart failure (which causes fluid to build up in the lungs and a shortness of breath)
Check for other signs of respiratory distress or illness to determine if your baby’s grunts are normal or a sign of another problem. Other signs of respiratory problems include:
- blue tongue or skin
- weight loss
- fever
- lethargy
- nasal flaring
- pauses in breathing
Watching and hearing your baby struggle may be difficult, but in the end, it’s important to let them figure it out on their own.
Grunting may seem a little scary, but it usually serves a very useful and healthy purpose for your baby. If your baby is healthy, active, appears happy, and is eating well, grunting is rarely a sign of illness.
See your doctor for a checkup if you have questions or concerns about your grunting baby.
And treat grunting with every breath as a medical emergency.
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- NRAAS Porter mod will do that for you. You pack all the sims you want to move. Plus any ghosts that are needed to connect families to preserve relationships. the info is all on their site. It took me a few goes before I worked it out but once I got the idea it is good to use.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg/playlists - edited March 2017Porter is one way. Note that the relationships will only be preserved within the packed up sims you are porting, they will get lost with those left behind as those sims' data will no longer be in your game at all.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Porter+FAQ
The other way is to use NRaas Traveler to move one household to the new world. Both worlds will stay in your game and relationships and history will be preserved between all sims. You can then travel sims back and forth between the two worlds if you wish, move more of them over to the new world, or use MasterController to send for some of them left behind and place them in their new houses.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Traveler+FAQ
(see the Switching Hometowns section towards the end of the FAQ page)
(NRaas Overwatch and ErrorTrap highly recommended in addition to Traveler to make this work well)
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Our new site is at http://nraas.net - Thank you for starting this thread, I always meant to ask the same question.
Will definitely be checking out NRaas Traveler too as that looks amazing! - You can use 'portrait panel' mod and nraas to add more than 8 sims to one household.
I was assuming the OP had multiple households that they did not want to blend together in the process.You can use 'portrait panel' mod and nraas to add more than 8 sims to one household.
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Our new site is at http://nraas.net- Why can't you save your sims to the library and then just place them in the new town, or will they lose their relationship with the other families.
They stand to lose all relationships, with both friends and family, outside of each binned household. Placing households in a new world that way is in many ways the equivalent of starting the game over (sort of) and not what many players want, but it is the 'EA way' of doing this.Why can't you save your sims to the library and then just place them in the new town, or will they lose their relationship with the other families.
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Our new site is at http://nraas.net- edited March 2017I've always done this making the decision I didn't care the family tree would be damaged a bit (well, I had no choice did I ), but ever since I have Mastercontroller those days are over, because you can set relationships with that mod. I've turned my sim's sister into her sister again that way a few days ago, and that immediately repaired the family tree.
P.s. When you move them, don't forget to also take the family graves along! Ancestors will remain in the family tree that way as well and they don't count as a sim. You can put those in your inventory
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Explore some more?Check out Desert Palace, a tomb especially created for RFlong7’s amazing upcoming world. - @igazor I think there may be issues with the Porter download link. I wanted to move my Legacy family to IP and someone suggested I download Porter. But when I tried to download it, kept getting an error. I tried other mods (dresser and debugenabler) and those links work fine. Ended up just using MC to add all 16 sims to one household, saved to bin and started a fresh save.0
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Not sure which link is giving you an error, but I just checked the one on this page and it worked fine for me. Is it one located someplace else on the wiki?@igazor I think there may be issues with the Porter download link. I wanted to move my Legacy family to IP and someone suggested I download Porter. But when I tried to download it, kept getting an error. I tried other mods (dresser and debugenabler) and those links work fine. Ended up just using MC to add all 16 sims to one household, saved to bin and started a fresh save.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Porter+Phase+Twelve
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Our new site is at http://nraas.net - edited March 2017@igazor Tried again on my pc, phone and then hubby's laptop but still get an error each time.0
Sorry, don't know what the fault could be. The wiki is at best unreliable sometimes, but the file is there. Does a more direct link help?@igazor Tried again on my pc, phone and then hubby's laptop but still get an error each time.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/file/view/NRaas_Porter_V42.zip
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Our new site is at http://nraas.net- @igazor Yes! Finally downloaded with the second link. Thanks so much.1
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I was assuming the OP had multiple households that they did not want to blend together in the process.You can use 'portrait panel' mod and nraas to add more than 8 sims to one household.
That is true, they will be accuainteses. What I did in the past is moving several large groups, so not everyone in town would know each other.
By the way I would not recommend to use portrait panel in the long run, I had some issues with it so I use it only for 'relocations'.
Maybe other suggestions are better but just wanted to offer the possibilty. - The PortaitPanel mod does not increase the capacity of a household all by itself. It increases the number of possible thumbnails that display on the left-side panel and offers many flexible ways to display them. You need other mods to achieve Greater Than Eight along with it, either permanently or temporarily.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Which+Mod+FAQ#Overstuffed
There should be no problems using PortraitPanel 'in the long run,' but NRaas would be the place to report any issues with it. It's not a mod very well known for kicking up problems, though some users don't quite understand its flexibility options.
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Our new site is at http://nraas.net - I know this is really late lol but I have the same problem and I'm thinking of just making my own family tree and not relying on the games once I move.
- I know this is really late lol but I have the same problem and I'm thinking of just making my own family tree and not relying on the games once I move.
If you have Master Controller mod from NRAAS you can recreate the family tree in game. You might need the cheats module of Master Controller to do that too.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg/playlists
One of the reasons I'm so in love with MC. I even gave my sim's friends a kid last week, without the hassle of having to go into their family and make them try for baby. Just used their genetics in CAS, chose a nice mixture, saved the toddler to the bin and put him in their family. Making him their son et voilá. Should so much have been a game option!I know this is really late lol but I have the same problem and I'm thinking of just making my own family tree and not relying on the games once I move.
If you have Master Controller mod from NRAAS you can recreate the family tree in game. You might need the cheats module of Master Controller to do that too.
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Explore some more?Check out Desert Palace, a tomb especially created for RFlong7’s amazing upcoming world.- @JoAnne65 How did you (or did you?) save the toddler to the bin alone? I'd love to create toddlers and even more, pets, for my families but I've never been able to save them to the bin without at least one adult in the household. Is there a way MC will let you do that? Thanks.Appaloosa Plains Townie Makeover Project!
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Strength in what remains behind - edited July 2017@donnabailey You indeed can't save pets and toddlers/kids/teens to the bin on their own. So I accompany them with an adult (giving them green/purple/blue hair makes this trick easier). I add the tod and the adult to the household and then right away remove the green/purple/blue haired stranger (easy recognizable in the thumbnail). Which by then isn't a problem because there are adults in the household so the kid can stay
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That's one way to do it. I would tend to use MC to Pollinate one of the sims, choosing their partner as the second parent, so they can experience the joys of pregnancy and crying babies like everyone else without my having to manage their romantic lives in the process. Of course, if I want control over the kid's genetic blending in the end, I kind of have to wait a while before I can do that and then use MC's Play With Genetics on them when I remember to.One of the reasons I'm so in love with MC. I even gave my sim's friends a kid last week, without the hassle of having to go into their family and make them try for baby. Just used their genetics in CAS, chose a nice mixture, saved the toddler to the bin and put him in their family. Making him their son et voilá. Should so much have been a game option!
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*looks up 'pollinate'*That's one way to do it. I would tend to use MC to Pollinate one of the sims, choosing their partner as the second parent, so they can experience the joys of pregnancy and crying babies like everyone else without my having to manage their romantic lives in the process. Of course, if I want control over the kid's genetic blending in the end, I kind of have to wait a while before I can do that and then use MC's Play With Genetics on them when I remember to.
*laughs*
*then screams*
IS THAT POSSIBLE!? Could you please tell me step by step how ?
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Okay, but seriously on the sim you want pregnant NRaas > MC > (Sim) > Basic > Pollinate and select the other parent.
Play With Genetics I think you already know, but that requires the sim to be born already or be in the game somehow.
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Oh, lol, then I fear translation got in the way, because in Dutch the term is strictly reserved for plants so I thought it was a joke That concerned the laughing by the way. The screaming was because being able to really make sims pregnant that way is so much better even! Now I'll just have to figure out how NRaas translated pollinate, because I have the Dutch version... So, under basic, I should be able to figure it out Thanks!@JoAnne65 - Not sure what all the screaming is about. Pollinate just makes a sim pregnant. You do know that usually sims need to be pregnant in order to have children, right? Oh...maybe this is a different sort of chat we need to be having.
Okay, but seriously on the sim you want pregnant NRaas > MC > (Sim) > Basic > Pollinate and select the other parent.
Play With Genetics I think you already know, but that requires the sim to be born already or be in the game somehow.
(yes, playing with genetics I've already used quite a couple of times )
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Explore some more?Check out Desert Palace, a tomb especially created for RFlong7’s amazing upcoming world. - To be fair, in English the term is usually reserved for plants as well. 'Hey babe, wanna come over to my place and pollinate?' is not a very commonly heard pickup line. Then again, I don't get out as much as I used to.
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