Do you let random chance decide your sims' pregnancies, or do you cheat it with MCCC?

Approximately 99.7% of the time the pregnancy (number of offspring and gender) is left to chance/the game large. Occasionally a Sim already has a busy house with previous offspring and I simply could NOT handle a multiple birth. In which case I may just choose to reduce to a single baby using MCCC.

Neither? :sweat_smile:

no mods in my game
I mostly just leave it up to game to decide

but I do sometimes influence baby gender via the carrots / strawberries and music thing

and if I really want it to be twins or triplets i might add ley line lot trait

most of the time I immediately check if sim is pregnant and if i wanted them to be and they're not they'll try again

i do sometimes tempt fate by using have a baby instead of woohoo too though in which scenario yeah I'll just wait and see if it resulted in something

if i get twins triplets random chance I'll just roll with it

If I have specific plans for a particular Sim and that doesn't entail a rug-rat right away, then MCCC is really handy. I'll often let Sims I'm not actively playing and Townies to have a baby. I think it's good, and it adds a bit of variety. As long as the townie sims don't leave the baby on a bench or something and play computer games all day. That's rather irresponsible.

If you have MCCC that does random pregnancy. Sometimes when i've decided that my sim self is done with having children, MCCC throws a curveball in when playing another household and he's about to bring up another one.

I don't have mods to do that, and I tend to just see what I get.
I have been lucky that I have about an even amount of boys and girls, so that isn't an issue.
Also, I like to be surprised, because what my Sims get as kids may change how I play them.
I have been surprised with my first set of male triplets, which would not have been as much fun if I already knew what was going to happen.
Been crazy about the science baby thing, and have gotten twins, and single babies with it.

For some of my families where the gender and birth order are already set, I allow my Sims to try for baby, and then I check with MCCC to be certain of the gender and number of babies. With Erik and Kayleigh, the first time out, I allowed the game to decide, so it was all natural. The second pregnancy yielding identical twin girls threw me for a loop, but since that game save is long since gone, I've been attempting to get back to where it was before I lost the save. So now, I am in complete control of the gender and birth order.

For most sims I go with what the game gives. I do use mccc to check the number of babies and the gender nearly always but mostly I don't change it. Sometimes however I have a specific story in mind for a particular sim and I do change it.

Just about everything in my game I leave random, but after 5 girls in a row, I was tempted to "influence" a boy for the current pregnancy, but didn't. She had another girl (!!) and later adopted a boy.

I don't have any mods or anything in my game but I just use the CAS cheat to change the baby as needed. It's 50/50, if I have a storyline planned around a certain birthing order then I'll change it but otherwise I just let it happen and work the story whatever I get. Just depends on what I'm doing.

No mods in my game except No Mosaic and a Sunray effect nuker.