Choose your babies sex by eating Strawberries or Carrots

For a girl, you can also have your pregnant Sim listen to Pop music, and for a Boy, Alternative music.

I thought some of the earliest patch notes mentioned patching the sex influencing mechanics for babies out?

I also thought the music had been a Sims 3 exclusive, since I remembered looking for it when the base game launched.

Patch notes for Update: 05/04/2015 – PC Version 1.6.69.1020 / Mac Version 1.6.69.1220:

"Sims can now influence the gender of their offspring!
Strawberries and Pop music (one, the other, or both) seem to lead to more baby girls.
Carrots and Alternative music to more baby boys."

From here: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/832123/may-4-patch-notes

I has not been patched out.

So great that you did a room. I might add if you have City Living there are usually stalls that sell most types of produce. It's good for when you have a bit of money on hand and one of your preferred harvestables is out of season of you have Seasons.

That is good to know. I remember trying to experiment with similar mechanics in the beginning because I was testing for Sims 3 esque mechanics, but it has been so long that I have never looked again beyond seeing pieces of the patch notes.

"GalacticGal;c-17775404" wrote:
For a girl, you can also have your pregnant Sim listen to Pop music, and for a Boy, Alternative music.

I have tried that before but still included the strawberries and carrots as back up, might try it one day without them if I am not too bothered about the sex.

"Calico45;c-17775412" wrote:
I thought some of the earliest patch notes mentioned patching the sex influencing mechanics for babies out?

I also thought the music had been a Sims 3 exclusive, since I remembered looking for it when the base game launched.

The update actually gave us the option, people were asking for it ;)

"Auroraskies;c-17775442" wrote:
Patch notes for Update: 05/04/2015 – PC Version 1.6.69.1020 / Mac Version 1.6.69.1220:

"Sims can now influence the gender of their offspring!
Strawberries and Pop music (one, the other, or both) seem to lead to more baby girls.
Carrots and Alternative music to more baby boys."

From here: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/832123/may-4-patch-notes

Yip that is it. I was so happy when it was added :)

"83bienchen;c-17775464" wrote:
I has not been patched out.

Nope I just did it yesterday when I made the room, it definitely still works :)

"Bobisbae;c-17775540" wrote:
So great that you did a room. I might add if you have City Living there are usually stalls that sell most types of produce. It's good for when you have a bit of money on hand and one of your preferred harvestables is out of season of you have Seasons.

Thanks for the tip, I keep on forgetting about the City living stalls LOL

"Calico45;c-17775549" wrote:
That is good to know. I remember trying to experiment with similar mechanics in the beginning because I was testing for Sims 3 esque mechanics, but it has been so long that I have never looked again beyond seeing pieces of the patch notes.

It does come in handy if you want to manipulate the sex of a baby. I needed a boy and a girl to use for testing my baby outfits, but my sims had no harvests, so I used some of my previous rooms to make the one above up, now its saved and easier for a next time ;)

I've tested it. It doesn't always work. I would guess a 75% chance of one you're aiming for and a 25% chance of the other with both the strawberries/carrots and listening to pop/alternative. Probably would have to stay on the same lot for the entire pregnancy doing one and/or the other method for a higher chance. That means no other food and don't leave the room with the music for the entire pregnancy. So no going to work either. ;)
Saving the game and loading later, changing characters, or leaving the lot etc... would reset it.

I have had a lot of success with it. I have my sim only eat whatever the strawberries or carrots for their whole pregnancy and even more than hunger requires in the third trimester and I have been successful every time, guess I am just lucky ;)

Amazing, thank you! I always have to google which one is for what gender. Never agaim, the colours speak for themselves. Thank you so so so much!!!