November 2043 (Spring)
Leslie Lachance has just hit the 12 week mark of her pregnancy. She’s still working full time but already, she can’t wait for her maternity leave.
She’s finding pregnancy incredibly exhausting this time around. Fortunately, husband Dominic is taking on the majority of work with their 3-year-old twins, Oscar and Stella.
Baby Lachance is due in May 2044.
It’s the second child for Sam Whitney but the first with his wife Julia and things are getting very exciting!
Julia has just a few weeks left of work and has been using her downtime to put the finishing touches on the nursery. Once school finishes for the year, she wants to spend all her time relaxing and waiting for Baby Whitney, who is due in March 2044.
Rebecca Collins is 28 weeks along and has been subsisting on a diet of pizza and basically nothing else. It’s all homemade, so she figures it can’t be too terrible for the twins.
She and husband Nathan are still a little nervous about welcoming two babies but are as ready as they’ll ever be to meet them! The twins are due in February 2044.
Over at the Benton house, it's Eliza's first birthday...
...and she's quite adorable! She doesn't favour the Benton side of the family nearly as heavily as her older siblings.
She can't wait for a proper play date with her cousin Zoe!
Comparisons:
Eliza...
...her dad, Charlie...
...and her mother Camilla.
Notes:
- Poor Leslie kept falling asleep while I was visiting the Lachances. I always play my pregnant sims through to the next trimester, rather than just bumping them up with InSim, and it was a real struggle keeping her on her feet! Julia and Rebecca are both more energetic. The game obviously doesn't really care that Leslie has two kids already and Julia and Rebecca have none but I find it interesting the way it's affecting them anyway! It seems realistic to me.
- So excited with how Eliza turned out! I really was expecting her to more closely resemble Charlie but it took looking at these comparison pics before I saw any of her dad in her at all! She's got Charlie's eyes, and Camilla's everything else (and Grandma Zelda's hair colour, if you're wondering). I just adore her!
Love that it's realistic in terms of energy levels of the second pregnancy, especially with twin already underfoot. I was really hoping to see a birth when I read the title but then I realized that it would be much too early for babies yet :)
ReplyDeleteNot sure if Leslie loves it as much as we do though! ;) Yes, a bit early for a birth for all three of these ladies. It seems like Julia and Rebecca have been pregnant for much longer, because their bellies popped really early, when they were walkbys on other lots. :\ Soon enough though!
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A nice morning coffee read for me, thank you!
ReplyDeleteIndeed it is realistic that not all Sim-pregnancies are exactly the same. I've not played a pregnant Sim in a while as there aren't many babies "allowed" in New Maximiliania, but it is always an exciting time!
EA could easily have made the pregnancies more samey but there's enough subtle variation in there to keep us on our toes, trying to keep pregnant sims happy (and alive, sometimes!)
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Good thing Dominic is able to help out so much with the twins... he kind of talked Leslie into this, after all, though I'm sure she wouldn't have agreed if she didn't also want another one.
ReplyDeleteEliza has a really distinctive and charming look in her eyes-- I think she might be pretty mischievous, or maybe it's just the way that screencap caught her expression.
Ha, yes, Dominic has been keen for #3 for a while now but he's always been very keen to be an active dad. Leslie is very lucky in that respect. :)
DeleteEliza reminds me so much of Camilla as a toddler. I took special note of Camilla when she aged up, because she seemed to have this very mischievous twinkle in her eyes (which you cannot see in the pic here, btw); Eliza has that same twinkle. Hopefully, for Charlie and Camilla's sake, it's just a twinkle and not a personality indicator! Camilla was pretty well-behaved. It was Lila they had to worry about. ;)
So many upcoming babies!! I can't wait to see them all! Poor Leslie, being pregnant with twin three year olds would be rough for anyone, but add being a teacher, and that is just a long day.
ReplyDeleteEliza is adorable, and totally resembles her Mom! Funny that she got Grandma Zelda's hair color. Love those gappy teeth on your toddlers! <3
Teaching can be a pretty draining job even when you're not pregnant, so Leslie would really be feeling it right now. Especially with Oscar and Stella at home. :)
DeleteHeh, I love the teeth too. And Eliza! I can't even be mad at her for the boring black hair, because she's just so damn cute. I was always keen to have one of Camilla and Charlie's kids look like Camilla. Grace resembles her but not as closely as Eliza does.
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I forgot all about Leslie being pregnant! Don't as me how I did that, since I love seeing those sim-babies!
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to see all these new little faces in Sullivan!
Eliza looks so cute! I still thinks it's amazing how genetics work in this game!
Well, Leslie's update was probably a while ago now. I've been a bit slack with the updates the past couple of months!
DeleteI love Eliza too - such a cute little munchkin and I love that she looks like her mum. :)
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Leslie really does look beat. I can't remember, does TS2 roll the number of babies at conception or birth? Does she know yet if it'll be a single or multiples?
ReplyDeleteOh, Eliza is just so pretty!!! I am in love with that hair you have on her.
Can't wait to meet all the new babies!
Yeah, Leslie is 12 weeks in and she's done, lol! Her Ideal Family Size is 4 (Dominic's is 5) but I think this might be it for these two. :)
DeleteTS2 rolls the number of babies at conception (though cheesecake can change it at any time - I don't let my pregnant sims eat cheesecake). But I actually decide on the number of babies myself, based on Starr's system. Rebecca has a higher chance of twins, due to her dad being a twin. Sims who are twins themselves and sims who've had fertility treatment or are over 35 will also have a higher chance and I've added back the Triplets and Quads mod...so it should be very interesting! Leslie is definitely having just one this time though. :)
I think it was Maisie who found Eliza's hair for me. I used it on Caitlin when she was a kid and have been looking for a Pookleted version for literally years! I love it too. :)
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Gosh so many pregnancies! They all look well and glad things are going smoothly. A diet of pizza though? Iol I guess if the topping includes lots of veggies. ;)
ReplyDeleteEliza is a cutie and she has an interesting mix of her parents. :)
I've had pregnant friends who have subsisted on basically whatever they could keep down and if that was pizza, so be it! I have one friend who is generally quite health conscious who ate almost nothing but McDonalds' fries for the first half of her pregnancy, lol!
DeleteI'm super-happy with Eliza. I want to get her into some updates!
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