My Sims always have boys!

There is a "cheat" you can use to supposedly have girls. You eat strawberries and listen to pop music. Carrots and alternative music for boys. I have no idea if this is simply Sim Urban Myth or if it actually works because I have never really cared what the gender of my Sims babies are. Or you could just use MCCC and choose the gender of your baby to female if you really want your sim to have a girl instead of a boy and you can decide how many babies your sim will have too. I let my sims use autonomous try for a baby and am often amused by the outcome. Even when they breed plentifully. Maybe a little too plentifully some might say.

I know the music and fruit is true I tested it with one of my families. The games mechanics is very simply when determining if the next gender is going to be a boy or girl it counts how many girls and guys are in the game and uses that as a reference point for what the higher percentage is. If there is more girls in the population the higher chance is a boy, if there is more boys in the population the higher chance is a girl. If the game is near the cull stage, the game will produce boys because boys can't have kids, except with aliens.

My sims predominantly have girls. I mean, I'm okay with that, as I mostly like to play with girls as my main sims.

"drakharis;c-17031309" wrote:
There is a "cheat" you can use to supposedly have girls. You eat strawberries and listen to pop music. Carrots and alternative music for boys. I have no idea if this is simply Sim Urban Myth or if it actually works because I have never really cared what the gender of my Sims babies are. Or you could just use MCCC and choose the gender of your baby to female if you really want your sim to have a girl instead of a boy and you can decide how many babies your sim will have too. I let my sims use autonomous try for a baby and am often amused by the outcome. Even when they breed plentifully. Maybe a little too plentifully some might say.

It's not a cheat, it's an in-game feature to let players, that don't use mods or cheats, influence what their sim will have. Some challenges outlaw it, as they want the gender to be random, but it is a legit in-game feature. And, it does work. At one time, it didn't work with MCCC installed, but I think that issue was fixed and it's now working even with the mod again.

Another thing I’ve found; do you have more female sims than male? I had this problem going back a few months ago and it was because of a decline in the male population in my game.

I'm having a lot of baby boys recently. If I want I girl, I always have to have the mother-to-be eat strawberrys. I don't even remember when I last had a baby girl without that.

"drakharis;c-17031309" wrote:
There is a "cheat" you can use to supposedly have girls. You eat strawberries and listen to pop music. Carrots and alternative music for boys. I have no idea if this is simply Sim Urban Myth or if it actually works because I have never really cared what the gender of my Sims babies are. Or you could just use MCCC and choose the gender of your baby to female if you really want your sim to have a girl instead of a boy and you can decide how many babies your sim will have too. I let my sims use autonomous try for a baby and am often amused by the outcome. Even when they breed plentifully. Maybe a little too plentifully some might say.

The food and music thing works. I'm not quite sure on the timing, I think it has to be in the first trimester. Just to be safe I have my sim do it right before try for baby, take the pregnancy test and then do it again.

So try having your sim eat strawberries while listening to pop music.

Babies can have gene rerolls during pregnancy which changes the baby's outcome (boy, girl, mom's hair, dad's hair, eyes, twins, etc). If you change your sims or household changes within that time, the baby's outcome rerolls.

Here's a basic scenario as an example:

• A sim couple(not married) becomes pregnant. Sim A (blonde hair and pregnant) lives with their parents and sibling, while Sim B (redhair) lives alone. The child is expected to be a blonde baby girl.
  
  
• Sim A's sibling moves out of the house. (Baby reroll #1 redhair boy)
  
  
• Sim B proposes to Sim A and moves in with them and their parents. (Baby reroll #2 blonde boy)
  
  
• The family makes changes to the house (build mode) to prepare for the baby (Baby reroll #3 redhair girl)
  
  
• Sim A's mother passes away (Baby reroll #4 twins: redhair boy, blonde girl)
  
  
• Sim B adopts a puppy (Baby reroll #5: blonde girl)
  
  
• Sim A dyes their hair brown (Baby reroll #6 twin brunette boys)
  
  
• Sim A gives birth to two brunette boys
  

Basically the moment your sim finds out they're pregnant, these changes can cause gene rerolls. Since there's a 50% chance of having a boy or girl, constant rerolls can basically leave the chances up in the air. Adding gender inducers (strawberries/carrots or pop/rock) really do help change it. However, if a household goes through another change, it also changes the reroll.

So if we rewind the scenario a little bit and have Sim A eating strawberries and listening to pop, the roll would change to a baby girl. But If afterward, she dyes her hair black for a party that would change the reroll to a dark-haired boy.

Not sure if it really randomizes by game, but ever since a Sim I played had 4 girls, I always get boys first now. :/ So I know what you mean.

Yeah I’ve been using MCCC in my rotational file and six out of six pregnancies have been boys (I cheated one to also have a girl.)

Without eating fruits, or listening to radio stations my sim had 3 males and 1 female last. That sims son had 2 females and the other son had 3 males and 1 female again. I mean...aren’t the odds 50/50. Maybe the games just not choosing the one you want by chance