User blog comment:Nikel23/Did you miss TS1 babies?/@comment-1441666-20140807160053

I actually don't mind this, provided they don't do the one thing with TS1 babies that really annoyed me: deleting them from the game entirely if you move the family to a new house during the baby stage, because they're classed as objects rather than characters. But, since they say babies will be unselectable characters (rather like in TS2), hopefully that won't be the case. I'm not super keen on having the baby stage essentially skippable or capable of going on indefinitely either, but it sounds easy enough just to age them up manually after 2-3 days like in TS2/3. I'm not a huge baby/toddler fan anyway and much prefer my Sims once they hit their teens and start getting traits and wants that properly differentiate them from one another. All that being said, I agree it's a sucky move by the developers against the considerable number of fans who like the generations and life stages aspect the game-play best.