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?