I'm trying to get one of my couples to try for another baby. They had one yesterday and I left until today to try for the next. Yesterday's baby is 5 now, and today, every time I try to make them have another baby, it just says it's too soon for them to do it again. Even the first time today that I tried, they wouldn't attempt it.

I'm used to having to wait until the last baby is about 3 years old or so, but it's gone well past that age. Is something wrong?

How soon they will want to try again depends upon each parent's desire to have children. If you have parents that are at the "not really" or "no way" end of the scale, you'll probably have to wait a lot longer between babies than you would if they both 'definitely' want children.

Thanks for clearing that up! I was scratching my head on that this morning.

My Hubby definitely wants kids, and wife "maybe". I cannot get them to have a second child. They argue, then go to make a baby, then nothing!

That's a different situation and isn't related to their desire for children. Have you bought a doctor's consultation for either (or both) of them?

I have had the same problem with one of my families. Both hubby and wife were definitely, had no problem having the first child at 24-25. Tried several times up to the age of 34-35 with no results. The doctor's consultation suggested the baby boost for both. I gave them both the baby boost and they had a second child at 35-36 but that was it. They are now 57-58 with no more children after numerous attempts. Besides that they are both lazy. Their energy levels are alway high during dayligt hours and are always running around exercising warming hands and admiring themselves. They never stay working and all they have achieved is abouth miday through level two.

Doctor consult says baby boost needed. Low on $$$. May only have 1 child this generation.

I couldn't tell whether it was a result of the natural progression of the games, or a change from the updates. I'm running 5 families and it is much more difficult to have children. In my first two generations, I never saw them go through the baby making ritual and then walk away with nothing. Now, I see it fairly frequently. I've run the doctor diagnostic, on some there is a message that they need baby boost and I provide it to the parent that needed it, but the couple remained sterile.

In other families, there was no indication that either parent needed baby boost but they couldn't produce additional children.

In one of my families, after their first child they had another after he was 2. Then after they had the 2nd child, they were still saying it was too soon after he turned 4. So they seem to make their minds up themselves. I kept trying and now I have two (in my opinion) of the cutest twin girls in VF.

How do you get girls? I have four families and they all only have boys. They each have at least three children, all boys. Is there a way you can get girls?

I'm having the same problem... I'm in the 3rd generation - had 6 children on the first 2, but I'm having problems on this one. I've only got 4 children so far and there's no way of having another one. Both parents want children, I've gave that red shot and nothing...
Btw, in Virtual Villagers they women stop having babies at 50. Is it the same thing in Virtual Families? Or if it's not, how old they must be? Thanx

I don't know how to resolve the "too soon" problem, but I found out how to make them try when they can't agree, I decided to try punishing them while they were arguing, then I put them together again and they didn't argue anymore.

I'm on my 4th generation in one family. Fred definitely wants kids and Wilma said maybe. After having a peep, everytime I tried to make to make it happen, they would just argue. I would give her shower, some perfume, lether eat, rest, everything I could think of to make it happen. Finally I just let them argue until she agreed and guess what triplets!!!! I also noticed that since I upgraded to the .0.5 version I hardly get the 'events' to adopt an orphan left at my door...has anyone else noticed this?

I am on my third generation and I want to see if I can get them to have a 6 child. I put them to keep trying and still failed to have a baby She is age 42 and Rebacca and Du that is. After trying twice. Then they say No I try again a few hours later and still no baby. So I paused the game until the following day so they not get too old and I tried again and again and still failed. When you get a doctor's consulton. Whens the best time to use it. When they say no or trying or anytime as long as they are well. I don't want to get the wrong massage.

Thank you for any help anyone comes up with. Unless I might hope that the next genaration have 6 children.

I think the gender is random. I haven't noticed that there's a big drop in how many babies they have in each generation.I have a 3rd generation family on the go and they've all had 6 kids. I HAVE noticed though that in some of my games I'm encouraging less babies if the mom seems to have a high paying job. I've started alternating one family to be baby making machines and the next to have a few to carry on but mostly using them to save up money. (I hope that makes sense) I'm having fun experimenting though. I haven't had any triplets yet. The most multiples I've come across is my family that had 2 sets of twins. ALL girls and then the next generation had 6 kids, 5 of them girls, hehe.

Well, Rita and Boonie are now almost on their 50s and they had only 4 children... I gave up.

About triplets, I'm still waiting here... I got twins and an adopted child on my first generation (6 children - 2 boys, 4 girls), 6 children on my second (4 girls, 2 boys), and now on my third they only had 4 children (3 girls, 1 boy).

And, just for you to know, that red injection didn't work for my guys. I spent $500 for nothing...

I have 5 families and it FRUSTRATES me that when a child turns two and is no longer being carried by Mom, the parents don't want to have another child! I want all my families to have 6 kids each...I LOVE having a full house. Any ideas on how to bring the fire back into a marriage?

Sometimes having them put on perfume/cologne right before babymaking puts them in the mood. Doesn't always work though. I also find giving the dad the baby boost helps better than giving it to the mom.