Children

After marriage, (of course) married couples can have children. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 2 allows players to have minimal two children.

Appearance
Each child will have their own appearance and personality, which is based on player's spouse. The player cannot change or alter the color of their child's hair or eyes, but the children can be dressed in different clothes if players want to alter their appearance looking different.

Personality
At this point you get to start guiding your child into one of four different types of personality categories; Quiet, Energetic, Studious, or Romantic. Each of the personalities has different gift preferences and can help one with certain activities:
 * Quiet: Fishing, Seashell collecting, and Swimming.
 * Energetic: Bug-catching, Fossil collecting, and Running.
 * Studious: Fruit collecting, Studying, and Gardening.
 * Romantic: Fashion, Furniture decorating, and Shopping.

Pregnancy
This happens the same way whether the person is playing as a boy or girl: 2 weeks after marriage, the female side will wake up feeling ill, and the husband insists that he will take her to the clinic. The wife doesn't want to go, but she gives in and lets her husband take. Wendelll examines her to see what's wrong, and tells you that there's no need to worry: they're going to have a baby! Wendell tells the player to be careful and then you'll go back home.

The next day after the pregnancy event, the player's spouse will ask them to go to the Town Tree with him/her to pray for the safe birth of your child. Once there, the player's spouse will ask which option they would prefer: Boy, Girl, let their spouse choose, or have this game decide one at random.

Birth
The childbirth takes 9 months as a pregnancy in real life. For example, if the female side was pregnant on 7 March 2018, your child will be born on 7 December 2018. If the player's child is going to be born on a festival day or townspeople birthday, the childbirth event will be bumped one day afterward.

Upon waking up in one morning, the female side will feel unwell. The player and their spouse will go to Walrus General Clinic for the birthing event. The player will be told its gender and then be able to type his/her name. After the baby is born Wendell will give them a Rattle, an empty milk bottle, and 10 can of Formula Milk. The player will be instructed to give their baby a bottle of milk every day.

Raising the Baby
The child will grow to a new baby stage every 1 month until he/she is grown up, so it takes over the course of 6 months for them to discover a new stage. There are Stage 1 (Infant), Stage 2 (Crawling), Stage 3 (Toddler), and finally Stage 4 (Talking). Each time your child changes stages the player will be asked the personality question.

1 month later, the player will discover that their child is now able to crawl. The player will see a cut-scene where it crawls in the morning, doing baby talk and various other attempted words. Make sure to give your baby Formula Milk and play with Rattle! If you forget, it will take twice the time for him or her to grow up.

Another 1 month later, the player's child will become fully grown-up. The child schedule will change a little bit once it is fully-grown. Instead of staying inside the house all day, it will walk out into various random locations between 10:00 and 17:00 on Sunny or Cloudy weather. At 18:00, it will go back inside the house.

Second Child
Now that your first one is fully grown up, the player may randomly be asked if they want to have a second child. The process of having a second child is exactly the same as first child, except the player doesn't have to select its gender; your second child's gender will be the opposite of the first child. 9 months after the player agrees with their spouse to have a second child, the child will be born.

No matter it is a first or second child, once the child passed Full-Grown Stage it has completely "mature" and cannot get any older.