Unlocking Infant Potential: A Guide to Milestones in The Sims 4 Growing Together
The Sims 4: Growing Together expansion pack significantly enriches infant gameplay, introducing a comprehensive milestone system. These milestones mark a Sim's developmental journey, capturing significant events like falling in love, starting a career, or welcoming a new baby. For infants, milestones reflect their progress in various areas, influencing their growing independence. If you played with infants prior to getting The Sims 4 Growing Together, you probably noticed that infant care suddenly became a lot more complicated. In fact, your infant can no longer sit up or crawl immediately upon aging up from a newborn. Of course, not being able to sit up means they can’t play with toys or explore foods in a high chair. They must learn these skills by hitting infant milestones.
This guide delves into the intricacies of infant milestones in The Sims 4: Growing Together, providing insights into how to achieve them and maximize your infant's development.
Understanding Infant Milestones
Milestones are a collection of icons that describe the major events that happened in a Sim's life such as falling in love, having a baby, getting a job, etc. Milestones for infants are separated into Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Life, Social, and Firsts categories. The Gross Motor and Fine Motor categories are what you want to focus on to help your infant be a little more independent. Of course, your infant can’t just skip right to sitting up and crawling. Just like in the real world, infants slowly progress through simple milestones first, then gradually reach more and more advanced milestones. Your infant in The Sims 4 Growing Together is no different. Infants will often have a greyed out milestone in their info panel. This is the next milestone that your infant is on track to reach. Hovering over that greyed out milestone will tell you how they can reach it. Of course, players must put effort into helping their infant reach all their Gross Motor and Fine Motor milestones. However, the Life, Social, and Firsts milestones are not necessarily required for infants to gain new independence.
Gross Motor Milestones
Gross Motor Milestones capture an Infant's progress in developing whole body movement for strength and coordination. These can only be unlocked when the Sim is an Infant. These milestones focus on developing whole-body movement, strength, and coordination. Achieving these milestones allows your infant to become more independent.
Lifted Head: This initial milestone is achieved by practicing tummy time with your infant. A bad move for a turtle, but a great move for an Infant…
mastered the ability to roll from their back to tummy and back again! developed the ability to lift their head all on their own. Read also: Understanding PLCs
Learned to Sit Up: Practice sitting with your Sims 4 Growing Together infant. Practice Sitting can be found under Friendly > Activities. Reaching this milestone unlocks the Fun motive for infants.
Learned to Dance: Have music playing near your infant frequently or teach them to dance on a stereo. Wave those hands!
learned to dance. Learned to Crawl: Practice crawling with your infant. There's nothing creepy about an Infant that's creeping! Watch out world,
is on the loose! Pulled to Stand: Practice standing with your infant. Practice Standing can be found under Friendly > Activities. Also, we recommend leaving your infant alone for a minute after each Practice Standing session. To reach this milestone, your infant will autonomously crawl to a nearby piece of furniture to pull themselves up. Despite literally learning to stand on their own two feet,
will still need care and guidance for some time to come.
Fine Motor Milestones
Fine Motor Milestones capture an infant's progress in developing their smaller muscles for precision and control. These can only be unlocked when the Sim is an Infant. Fine Motor Milestones capture an infant's progress in developing their smaller muscles for precision and control. These can only be unlocked when the Sim is an Infant. Work those tiny muscles! Who knew tiny hands could be this strong?
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Learned to Reach: Use the play mat and give your infants toys to hold. - Learned to Reach - from looking at toys on the Playmat
Learned to Grab: Use the play mat and give your infants toys to hold. - Learned to Grab - From playing with toys on the playmat (requires prev.)
Put toe in Mouth: can happen any time they're lying down, but seems to be more likely if they're actively looking at/reaching for something (and they accidentally grab their toe instead)
Learned Pincer Grasp: Explore different mashed baby foods in a high chair with your infant. - Learned Pincer Grab - can happen in the highchair or when playing in the playmat or playing with other small toys like the rattles. Requires sitting up
Learned to Clap: Random, possibly more likely if listening to music or talking? - Learned to Clap - Random, possibly more likely if listening to music or talking?
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Learned to Wave: Clapping and waving can be learned in either order. Just keep interacting with your infant. - Learned to Wave - Random - possibly more likely if interacting with other sims?
Some Sims 4 Growing Together infant activities related to Fine Motor milestones cannot be done until the Sit Up and Creep Gross Motor milestones have been reached.
Social Milestones
Social Milestones capture verbal communication and relationship-based moments across a Sim's life. Social milestones will help your infant grow into a toddler with some Communication skill already. These milestones focus on communication and relationship development.
Learned to Coo: Interaction from caregivers is key in developing most of the social milestones.
Learned to Laugh: We found the best way to reach this milestone was to each the Grab milestone first then give them toys to play with.
Learned to Babble: Infants learn to talk by hearing adults talk around them.
learned to happily babble away at the world around them. Learned to Blow a Raspberry: Our infant reached this milestone seemingly at random while playing on his play mat. Sul Sul! Ah, the sweet sound of silence. Bubbles bubbles bubbles! Mmm, yummy!
Said First Word: Continued socialization with your infant is key here. One, two, three… Circle, triangle, square…
uttered their very first word! Played their first game of Peek-A-Boo…
played their first game of Peek-A-Boo…
Life Milestones
Life milestones are not as important for unlocking new activities for your infant.
- Born/Born at a Hospital: This milestone will show up as Born if they were adopted or born at home. If they were born at a hospital, it will show up as Born at a Hospital. A new face!
experienced their first diaper blowout. was adopted.
Firsts Milestones
Firsts milestones don’t need to be reached in any particular order. They don’t come with any benefits, either. Firsts milestones don’t need to be reached in any particular order. They don’t come with any benefits, either.
Slept Through the Night: Even if your infant does not like sleeping in their crib, continue trying to get them to sleep in the crib. You can soothe them to sleep or use the baby mobile on an upgraded crib to help lull them to sleep. Life's not all fun and games, not even when
is asleep. First Diaper Blowout: This milestone is completely random! Your infant may experience a diaper blowout.
experienced their first diaper blowout. Peed on Caregiver: Another random milestone. Whenever your Sim attempts to change their infant’s diaper, there’s a chance the infant could pee during the diaper change. Yuck!
Experienced Burnout:
experienced burnout for the first time. Their frustration reached its boiling point!
Essential Items for Infant Development
The Sims 4 Growing Together adds some other new objects and activities for infants that are not in the base game, such as the infant play mat, changing tables, and infant back carriers! These new items significantly aid in an infant's development.
Infant Play Mat: The play mat will help your Sims 4 Growing Together infant reach a lot of their Gross Motor and Fine Motor milestones. So we highly recommend having one for your infants. The play mat is crucial for achieving Gross Motor and Fine Motor milestones. It facilitates activities like reaching, grabbing, and tummy time.
Changing Tables: We’re a little confused as to why changing tables are not in the base game but in any case, they are a Sims 4 Growing Together infant item. Of course, they work much the same as a dresser. Sims can change their infant’s outfits and change their diapers. Also, the changing table can be used to change outfits and diapers on toddlers. Furthermore, make sure to put a diaper bin next to it if you don’t want to clean up diaper waste on the floor.
Infant Carriers: Additionally, infant carriers can easily transport your infant and take them out into the world. Of course, Sims can take walks and even go jogging with an infant on their back. Infant carriers enable Sims to take their infants on walks and jogs, exposing them to the outside world.
Infant Quirks
Additionally, there are a total of 18 Sims 4 Growing Together infant quirks that infants can acquire naturally through gameplay. However, they are largely random; sometimes an infant may develop a quirk based on what they’re doing, sometimes they won’t. Also, infants can have up to three quirks at a time. So some quirks are just cute little habits your infant will do more frequently.
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