EA has announced that you will soon be able to have babies and raise them in The Sims 4. In The Sims 4 Growing Together Expansion Pack, players will have the opportunity to explore that familial bond through various Sim dynamics, watching as their Sims grow up, beginning at a new infant life stage, and grow old and hitting new precious milestones within their families.

Sims can explore three neighbourhoods in San Sequoia: Anchorpoint Wharf, Gilbert Gardens and a relaxed residential locale, Hopewell Hills, which has a slower pace that seamlessly mixes elements of modern and traditional craftsman-style homes.

With so much to do, your Sims’ family will have the perfect outing at the Urban Park where they can walk in a group, learn to ride a bicycle, jog or even hike on a nature path along the Gilbert Garden’s lake. Your Sim can enjoy the views, play on a playground, take it slow and go fishing with the grandparents, watch a movie at the wharf’s refurbished theatre, grab a bite to eat along the pier, visit the library filled with children’s books, or even splish and splash at Whalebert’s public splash pad play area.

In this base game update, you will have the chance to create and modify infants in CAS with the opportunity to show off a wide range of clothing, accessories and hairstyles, adopt an infant, age up from a newborn to an infant to a toddler, change an infant’s diaper, give the infant a nap, put the infant to sleep and more! Infants will also have the ability to express needs, emotions and sentiments.

The Sims 4 Growing Together Expansion Pack will add more choice and opportunity for your growing Sims by bringing up a Sim through new infant milestones. These milestones both highlight the way your Sims are growing up, as well as gain new abilities that open up the world around them for social interaction and exploration. Caregivers will have new ways of playing and caring for their infants with the Changing Station and Infant Playmat, as well as being able to carry them on their backs out into our family-friendly urban world.

There will also be 18 discoverable Infant Quirks that change an infant’s behaviour. With three Quirks per infant, each infant is bound to be unique! Some quirks include: Self-soother, Early Rise, Messy Eater, Frequently Hiccups, Gassy, Good Appetite, Snuggly Sleeper, Happy Spitter, Free-Air Tinkler and more.

You can learn more about Infants, the brand new age coming to all players in The Sims 4 base game update, as well as how the Growing Together Expansion Pack adds even more that will fundamentally change the way you’ll play with Infants on Saturday, 4 March 2023 at 3am GMT+8 on Twitch and YouTube.

In addition, toddlers are also getting the update in this pack. As with Infants, there will be 18 discoverable Toddler Quirks that change a Toddler’s behaviour. These are discovered over time and make each Toddler unique, beyond their traits. Some examples include: Aggressive, Picky Eater, Early Riser, Little Singer, Good Appetite, Loves Water, Hates Bedtime, Loves being Carried and more.

For the first time, Children have received four new Aspirations: Slumber Party Animal, Mind and Body, Playtime Captain and Creative Genius. With all the new content for kids in this pack (the Treehouse, Splash Pad, Bike, Sleeping Bag, Slumber Parties, Friendship Bracelets, and more) there’s plenty to aspire towards.

Through Sims’ experiences and relationships, players will begin to encounter Milestones, which will provide a way of showing players their Sims’ current growth, as well as the lifelong touchstones that continue to impact them as they age. These include overcoming a career obstacle, getting let go from a job, having a midlife crisis, having the family move in and so much more.

Our Growing Together Expansion Pack also includes a new social compatibility feature, which introduces new ways of socializing that will feel different with each Sim, leading to deeper, more meaningful relationships with family and friends. Maybe specific family members are jokesters together or maybe they are competitive. Your Sims family tree will now reflect more complex family relationships.

Your Sim will now have preferences that determine who they are socially compatible with and who are their sworn enemies. As your Sim experiences life, there will be opportunities for both drama and unity that will ultimately affect family dynamics and your Sims’ relationships.

After revealing this new update, The Sims 4 has also been getting shots by right-wing pundits on Fox News in the US, who is criticizing the game for “pushing the trans agenda”.

Can't believe the Woke Left™ has stripped the Sims of its primary educational mission pic.twitter.com/6CsbQKJbI9

— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) February 1, 2023

You can preorder The Sims 4 Growing Together Expansion Pack now to start playing immediately when it launches on 16 March 2023 on PC via EA app, Mac via Origin, and Steam, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. The Sims 4 has officially launched on the Epic Games Store as well, another download destination for this Expansion Pack.

If you purchase the Growing Together Expansion Pack anytime from 2 February to 27 April 2023, you’ll have access to the Outdoor Playtime Digital Content, where you can help your parent or child Sims have fun and active lives with a swing set, toddler slide and infant carrier.