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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>==<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Related Links</del>==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>==<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">About Babies</ins>==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Once babies are born, they'll remain in the baby stage for 3 days.  During that time, they're pretty useless as sims go...  Not many interactions you can do with them and they just sort of lay there, cry, and stink.  By default, baby sims are not selectable, so you cannot view their motives/needs.  You can make them selectable with the Tombstone of L&D or with the InSIMenator, though, if you want to monitor them more closely.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Baby sims will generally only cry when they are hungry or need changing.  </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* If they're hungry, they'll just be crying, with no green stink cloud around them.  Have your sim get a bottle for them by clicking on the fridge (has to be a full-size fridge - the University mini-fridge doesn't have bottles in it).  </ins></div></td></tr>
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