On what basis do you choose the gender of a baby?

[M.M.A.A.]

Hello everyone!

Meet Amber Dawn:
http://thumbs.modthesims.info/getimage.php?file=1301972

She is pregnant with her first child, her husband is Connor Dawn. She is not sure of what gender she is supposed to have and is worried as you can see, I'm not using a psoe box or anything, she is actually cheering, but looks as if she has her elbows set on the table, great for storytelling). Now, as the title says...

Is it:
Looks?
Last Name?
Personality?
Background?
Etc...?

Or is it just random(ly)? Meaning, are you "okay" with whatever gender is born?

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[Peni Griffin]

Given what a pain in the neck it is to quit without saving repeatedly until you get the gender you want, I've always gone with random chance.

Now, sometimes I'm sitting there hoping for one gender or another. During a statistical cluster of one sex or the other, I'm sure we all sit there tense and chanting as the video runs. And if I have a name in readiness for one sex and not another, or prefer one of my two prepared choices, I'll chant that name. Despite the Generation of Lesbians, when Billie Onions gave birth I wanted a girl, because I needed a Pearl and a Vidalia, but I'm out of good male Onions names. There aren't that many. I'd have to call a boy Sagan or Rhett at this point. I want both the upcoming Hawkins babies to be boys because Swainson is the only good hawk name left in my Texas Peterson's guide; for girls, I'm going to have to cast the net a lot wider. (And no I will not name an innocent baby Chicken, I don't care how imaginary she is!) And of course Cooper's next baby has to be named after Goz, which is a terrible name for a girl.

And sometimes the sims themselves show preferences. When Sally Ruben, despite having the most disaster-prone pregnancies in Drama Acres, kept rolling wants for a new baby as soon as a new daughter was born, I realized that she wanted a boy. Presumably because the only son she's given her husband is a stepson, who kept his original last name. And, since Martin took his wife's name, she's got it into her head that a boy is necessary to carry on the Ruben name. Which is nonsense, but there you are - Sally was ruthlessly trying for a boy, and now that she has one, she has gone an entire 24-hour period without rolling a new have-baby want! Which is good, 'cause she's not getting any. But parents who're trying for one sex after a run of the other don't get a do-over in real life or in Drama Acres. I've only ever done that on accident, when something went wrong with the game (and wasn't I mad, too).

[zumppe]

Mostly I just stick to "what's been given", but there are exceptions. Sometimes a certain couple makes me think "these two look like they would have a girl/boy". Other times there can be like 10 boys or girls born in a row in my hood, and at some point I might feel enough is enough (or else the entire generation will have to be gay, been there, done that as well :lol: ), and exit without saving until I get a baby of the other gender. It once took me 11 tries. :wtf: Once in a while the family itself gives me a "theme" for them, like one family (a pack of brothers and their spouses) tends to get only boys (the first 10 babies in the family have been boys!), so I've decided, that this family for some reason can have only boys, and will retry if they get a girl.

[Mootilda]

Most of the time, I accept whatever I get. On the rare occasions where I actively choose a gender, it's usually to balance out a gender imbalance.

[lauratje86]

I usually accept the gender that happens randomly. I am considering making it possible for my sims to pay for "gender selection" (Not a fan in RL, but fine with the idea for sims!) so then I'd keep redoing the birth until they got the right gender. In that case I'd be picking the gender that they'd be paying to choose based on the story - for example, if Malcolm Landgraab IV got married and had 3 daughters, he may pay for a son for the 4th pregnancy to carry on the family name. Or if a family had five sons already, they may be willing to pay to have a daughter. I expect I'll still let the game's randomness choose 95% of the time though.....

[StrangeTownChick]

I typically go with the gender the game chooses. That happens in real life, right? Who cares if Nikki Burbi wanted a son and got twin daughters? I just let her get pregnant again (giving her a perfectly good son). Sometimes I'll hope for one gender or another, but I take what I get (and am overjoyed when I get what I want). Sometimes I just know what it'll be. Like when San Su Hong got alien pregnant, something in me told me it would be a girl. And it was.
There is one exception, and that was in Sa Lin Hong's case (sister of the aforementioned). I had decided that she had an intense hatred of men, the reason being that when I moved her out of her parents' house as an adult, I had absolutely no idea what to do with her, as I had been so focused on her three older brothers in her teen years that I never really saw her personality developing like the others. So I turned that into her hating every male in the town, to the point where she traps male walk-bys in her basement until death. So when we decided for her to adopt a baby, of course it had to be a girl. She'd end up killing the child otherwise! But when the adoption van pulled up, it was a baby boy! Luckily I had foreseen this and saved a sim-hour earlier, and it took only one more try for her little Savannah.

[Orilon]

Given that I don't want to save and quit repeatedly I just go with whatever the game gives me. Right now its showing an imbalance towards boys, so hopefully it will start giving me girls soon.

[M.M.A.A.]

Luckily I had foreseen this and saved a sim-hour earlier, and it took only one more try for her little Savannah.

So saving and quitting for adopting acts the same way as saving and quitting for pregnancies?

[StrangeTownChick]

So saving and quitting for adopting acts the same way as saving and quitting for pregnancies?

I'm not sure about toddlers and children, but for babies, yes, because the process of adding an adopted baby to the family is the same as having a sim give birth, minus the video. You get the same "There's a new family member on the way!" notification and the same naming box. I never actually quit, though, just go out to the neighborhood. Works the same and is less time-consuming.

[HaunterMooneyes]

Unless I'm playing out (Simming out?) some sort of fiction remake that calls for certain characters to have daughters or sons, I let the game give me what it gives me. This leads to interesting situations in my Medieval hood if I have a long run of daughters in a family; since I'm playing my kingdom as a patriarchy, no sons means that the family name is going to die (as the eldest daughter will have to marry in some other lord, whose name will supersede hers).

[M.M.A.A.]

It seems to me that most of you here just accept what the game has to offer(?).

[Phoeberg]

I always go with what the game gives me, even if I've been hoping for the opposite gender to what I actually get. I figure it's more realistic that way, plus I can't be bothered to save and quit until I get the gender I want! Even if a family has had ten boys in a row and I want them to have a daughter I still go with what the game intends. The only time I considered quiting after a birth of a baby was when the sim in question had already given birth to a daughter but the game unexpectedly crashed just after and I hadn't saved. When I played the household again she ended up giving birth to twins, a girl and a boy, but in the end I left it with the twins.

[FranH]

It seems to me that the game chooses the sex on the basis of what the household lacks, in most cases-if not the neighborhood. I think that it becomes statistically probable that in a household of 4 boys, you will probably end up with a girl for a baby. It appears that the game engine compensates for the sex ratio in the neighborhood, at times, thus equalizing it in the long run.

I just accept what the end result is, anyway-it's a real PITA to quit and close the game just to come back for one baby.

[rogue_55]

It depends on which families I am playing. Since I restarted my Pleasantview neighborhood, I have been recreating some of my favorite families that I made in my original game. This time I started those families by creating the parents as young adults and they had their kids after they graduated from college. Since all the kids from those families were born in the game this time, I would redo the births if I didn’t get the correct gender the first time. As far as the other families in Pleasantview, I have been accepting whatever they get. I got lucky with some of them. I wanted Mortimer Goth and Dina Caliente to have a daughter, so I could name her Lydia. I wanted to name her after Lydia from the movie Beetlejuice since they live in a haunted house. They got a girl as I hoped for. I didn’t have as much luck with Brandi Broke though. I wanted her fourth child to be a girl since she already had 3 boys. She got another boy though. Julien Cooke is his father.

[omglo]

I take whatever the game gives, usually hoping for a girl, because out of the 20 born in game babies, only five are girls.

[M.M.A.A.]

Well, Amber here got a boy, Lucas:
http://thumbs.modthesims.info/getimage.php?file=1302005
Which is kinda what I wished for. And who said the OFB outfits were horrible?

[miss.pink]

I dont go for the game chose i just dont save till i get what i want one time i tried for about 5 times to get my sims to have twins with the same type of skin because she was type 3 and her husband was type 1.

[M.M.A.A.]

I dont go for the game chose i just dont save till i get what i want one time i tried for about 5 times to get my sims to have twins with the same type of skin because she was type 3 and her husband was type 1.

They should be type 2.

[Peni Griffin]

It seems to me that the game chooses the sex on the basis of what the household lacks, in most cases-if not the neighborhood. I think that it becomes statistically probable that in a household of 4 boys, you will probably end up with a girl for a baby. It appears that the game engine compensates for the sex ratio in the neighborhood, at times, thus equalizing it in the long run.

It seems that way to you because humans instinctively look for patterns, and if there isn't one, will make one up.

The game determines gender based on a 50/50 randomizer. Basically, a coin flip, or tossing a die and calling high or low. The chance of one result or another in these cases is exactly 50/50. This means that, over a sufficiently long stretch of time, the results will probably be roughly equivalent, but the odds of any given die roll going either way are not influenced by the rolls around it.

Unless, of course, you have micro-PK sufficiently active to affect the outcome, in which case, all bets are off because there's an exterior influence on the randomizer. :) The chanting people do is our instinctive attempt to activate our micro-PK to skew the result. But some of us are psi-hitters, and influence the randomizer in the way we want to, and some of us are psi-missers, and influence it to do the opposite.

ETA: And MMAA, in a marriage between Skins 1 and 3, you can get any result out of 1,2, and 3, if I understand skin genetics correctly. I don't have any different-skin twins yet, but I have lots of mixed-race marriages producing children whose skin tones run the gamut.

[omglo]

They should be type 2.It doesn't always happen that way though.

[dieKristina]

I mostly take what I get since I like the randomness. However, I also like to have a good balance and I especially don´t want to have more girls than boys (for some reason I slightly prefer to play male sims), so if I for example have 8 girls and only 5 boys I most likely go for a boy. But most of the time I automaticly get a good balance without having to do the quit without saving procedure, and then the only reason for me not to accept what I get is if I, for some reason, really want a specific gender in that family.

[StrangeTownChick]

And then it's just that some families are prone to one gender (another realistic feature of the game) so if a simmer likes to keep the balance they would have to focus on it more with this family than another that is prone to balance.

[M.M.A.A.]

ETA: And MMAA, in a marriage between Skins 1 and 3, you can get any result out of 1,2, and 3, if I understand skin genetics correctly. I don't have any different-skin twins yet, but I have lots of mixed-race marriages producing children whose skin tones run the gamut.

It doesn't always happen that way though.

I know, I know, but for type 1 and 3, that would seem like the perfect balance, if you know what I mean.

[M.M.A.A.]

And of course Cooper's next baby has to be named after Goz, which is a terrible name for a girl.


Why don't you just name her Goza, which is extremely close to Goz? Or, Gozy, like Jozey?

BTW, is it spelled Goz as in g in 'gigantic' or in 'great'?

[DasRabennest]

I just take what I get. That's why the young Goths in my new neighbourhood don't have an Alexander but a little Antigone. The quit-without-saving thing is far too much hassle for a lazy simmer like me.

DasRabennest

[joandsarah77]

I mostly accept whatever gender it is, but if I have a rather feminine sim I do like her to have at least one girl. My legacy is a patriarchy so boys are important to have there. One of my spares from that legacy who is a rather girly girl decided to produce three boys, while the main house where I wanted boys produced two girls! Luckily my heirs wife had twin boys after that. So with the spare I let her have one more, planning on exiting and reloading if need be. She is a very family, family orientated sim (want panel full of wants for her kids) and she and her hubby would happily have ten- no thanks. So I decided one more and I would exit and reload until she had a girl-she had a girl first try. :) On the other side was another spare and I just wanted to see how a boy and a girl would look but his wife decided to produce another girl and I proceeded to exit and reload that lot a total of 8 times to get that boy. That was rather unusual though, it was more a test of who is more stubborn Amber (producing these girls) or me. :lol:

[Artimis]

Sometimes I save the game just defore they give birth so if the bady was male I could leave without saving the game so I can try afgain for the gender I want or eye colour.

[Peni Griffin]

@MMAA - It's a hard g, as in goshawk, the bird. All the Hawkinses are birds, except Kitty and Sadie, who get their association elsewhere*; Mary Ann, who's adopted; and Cooper's kids with Ginger Newson, where for backstory reasons the first two kids had to be named after Ginger's late adopted parents and after that it was simplest to continue the Newsons' G theme. Into which Goz fits, which is why Cooper gets to use the name and Harris doesn't. For boys' names I still have Swainson and peregrine to get through before I have to start using other kinds of birds, as I've already started doing with the girls, or find bird book from another geographical region that'll help me expand my knowledge of hawk species names.

For a girl I was thinking of going with Gozii, with the terminal I's doubling as Roman numerals; but Ginger and Cooper would really like another boy for symmetry anyway.

Yeah, the names thing is a lot more important to me than gender parity. There's no law says I have to mate anybody, there's still gobs of townies and dormies, and I can always bring someone new in at University level, or make another family in CAS, though I'm hoping to get to the point where I don't ever need to. And it's important to me to take what the game throws at me, as long as it's "fair."

*Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers successfully tested their heavier-than-air vehicle; and Sadie Hawkins Day. (http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html) Although at my high school this was called Twirp Day.

[lauratje86]

@MMAA - It's a hard g, as in goshawk, the bird. All the Hawkinses are birds, except Kitty and Sadie, who get their association elsewhere*; Mary Ann, who's adopted; and Cooper's kids with Ginger Newson, where for backstory reasons the first two kids had to be named after Ginger's late adopted parents and after that it was simplest to continue the Newsons' G theme. Into which Goz fits, which is why Cooper gets to use the name and Harris doesn't. For boys' names I still have Swainson and peregrine to get through before I have to start using other kinds of birds, as I've already started doing with the girls, or find bird book from another geographical region that'll help me expand my knowledge of hawk species names.

Do you have a list of hawk names you've already used, Peni? I'm very interested in birds of prey, and I live in a different part of the world to you, so I may know some you haven't used yet :-) I'm still sad you're not going to name anyone Chicken though!! :lol:

[miss.pink]

My sim just had a baby,she is a type 3 and her husband is type 3 too so the baby is type 3 too,but my sister sometimes hangs with me sometimes when i play and she said he looks a little darker but idk we will see what he will turn out to be when he becomes a toddler.

[Bunnylips]

I play for genetics and am always improving the look of my Sims. Sometimes this backfires given the game's way of passing on genes. If I want to preserve the look of the mother's upper lip, say, I will not save until I get a girl baby, which will likely carry that mouth. Similarly, if I like the look of a feature typically passed on to a male child and present in his father, I will go for a boy.

I don't marry my Sims to townies. If they have trouble finding a proper mate when they're old enough, I will create the perfect mate for them in CAS. So after all of this fiddling in their lives, I have a crowd of pretty lovely Sims but occasionally get a really odd one. I play them anyway; I'm not THAT much of a control freak!

[Peni Griffin]

Wait, some of the features are sex-linked? That - seems kind of unlikely. And I've got girls who're the spitting images of their fathers, and boys who take after their mothers. But I haven't a clue how the genes work on the features, so it might be true that some are more likely to express on one gender or another.

[Kristin76]

I had no idea you could quit w/o saving and the gender might be different. I have always just gone with what the game gives me. Recently I have had a string of male birth ... but thankfully finally Dina ended that with Jenna who wouldnt have been here if not for the Elixir of Lift as Dina rolled a baby want like 5 days of elderhood (same thing with her husband Justus) ... like really NOW you want to have a baby? LOL!

[Bwinney43]

I accept what the game gives me but I always use InSim to check the pregnancy because I like to plan ahead for rooms and such. I just enjoy the random aspect of pregnancies. I don't usually tell stories so I have no need for specific genders.

[Issie]

I always go with what the game gives me and the only exception to that is the King and his descendants as I try and keep it as realistic as possible in order to follow the ancestry and such. I like to keep the rest of the families baby genders as a suprise and since I play with a mod they usually only have about 5 kids at most and I've had many families with only girls or boys.

[iCad]

I've never done the save-before-birthing thing. I always go with whatever the game gives me. Even when it's annoying. My game has been on a MONTHS-LONG girl kick. Swear, in like 50 births during that stretch of time, only one was a boy. The fifth generation of my 'hood is seriously gender-skewed. (Thank God for townies! :lol: ) Thankfully, the first two births in Generation 6 were boys, so maybe now things will swing the other way. (I hope so! I vastly prefer male Sims over females. Don't ask me why...)

@ Peni: I think you need a Tarantula Hawk (http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/files/2010/07/TarantulaHawk-large3-550x420.jpg)(ins)... (Warning: Picture of a large wasp. :lol: )

[lauratje86]

@ Peni: I think you need a Tarantula Hawk (http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/files/2010/07/TarantulaHawk-large3-550x420.jpg)(ins)... (Warning: Picture of a large wasp. :lol: )

What the?!?! Where do those things live? I would like to never go there.

My newest 'hood is suffering from an overdose of girl-babies. Five out of the six babies that I needed to set the 'hood up (according to the families I rolled) were girls. The one boy was the result of an alien pregnancy. He may well grow up to be my selfsim's husband :-)

[iCad]

What the?!?! Where do those things live? I would like to never go there.

My newest 'hood is suffering from an overdose of girl-babies. Five out of the six babies that I needed to set the 'hood up (according to the families I rolled) were girls. The one boy was the result of an alien pregnancy. He may well grow up to be my selfsim's husband :-)

My single boy baby in Gen 5 was an alien, too! :lol: Trust the aliens to get it right! All other births...Nothin' but girls. Or TWIN girls. Yeesh. I actually whooped with joy the other night when the streak was broken twice in a single play session. I was ridiculously happy.

Tarantula hawks -- more scientifically called pepsid wasps -- are native to the US Southwest, where I live. They are, in fact, the state insect of New Mexico, the state just below me. They're big and their stings hurt like holy bleeding hell, so they say, but they aren't aggressive (So you have to provoke them to get them to sting you). They're also solitary hunters (of tarantulas, as the name implies, which they paralyze, pull into a burrow, and then lay an egg on. The wasp larva then feeds on the paralyzed spider), so there aren't entire hives of them. I like 'em, myself, although they're a bit rare in my particular neck of the woods. But I think it'd be an appropriate name for a Sim with the right kind of personality to match... ;) Then again, you DO have to name a Sim before you know their personality. But they could always be re-named! :lol:

[zumppe]

Tarantula hawks -- more scientifically called pepsid wasps -- are native to the US Southwest, where I live. They are, in fact, the state insect of New Mexico, the state just below me. They're big and their stings hurt like holy bleeding hell, so they say, but they aren't aggressive (So you have to provoke them to get them to sting you). They're also solitary hunters (of tarantulas, as the name implies, which they paralyze, pull into a burrow, and then lay an egg on. The wasp larva then feeds on the paralyzed spider), so there aren't entire hives of them.

Wow, that's interesting! Never heard of it... but it's pretty! And HUGE! :blink:

[Saturnfly]

I just deal with whatever I get. Though I have tried to quit without saving when twins show up, with no luck. xD

[DJ.]

Well, one day, I took a piece of paper and started writing down names of people I know, who're the closest to me (mostly friends, I keep my family out of this game. Better of telling a friend "Hey, you're pregnant with an alien baby" than telling my dad that he's a plant-zombie-vampire hybrid).

Then, I made a brilliant idea - to make a family tree of those names I've written down. And I did. Now I'm still on first generation because I've decided to download a clean Pleasantview template. And I like to play everyone, not just skip them and make them a part of a story.

So yeah, it really does matter to me if the baby's male or a female. ;)

~DJ.

[SusannaG]

About the "hawk" names - how about the Savanna Hawk?


Also found a great one for a (male) Guasimalian Hawkins - the Juan Fernandez Hawk.

[smellincoffee]

Sometimes I have a REALLY GOOD name picked out for a particular sex. Can't have chance spoling that. :lol:

[Simonut]

Most of the time for first time parents in my game it seem to be always a cute baby girl, now sometime when I want it to be a boy. ( Ok like I am the one having it hahaha ) I will come out of the game into the neighborhood go back in to try to get a boy baby.

I notice it take two try before I get a boy. Why I want a boy ? So that the family name can continue into the next generation, with the girl she grow up and get married and lose her family name. ( I know there are Mods for that )

But I like both sexes but I always want them to have a boy if not on, the first try then oh well the poor female sims have to just go thought her sims want- to - be for nine months. Why can't us female in the real world just have our babies in 3 days ? In the Sims world each day ( 3 ) is representing a trimesters.

Why in the "Real World" we can not make the whole darn world stop and pause while the baby is being generated ? While the Man stand there looking like a fool ready to fall out , and then behold The baby "Poof " out of the Sky like send by angels.

The Sims live a very good life NO hospital bills, how sweet it is. :lol:

[MattShizzle]

Usually let it go random unless I want a specific gender or if there is an imbalance in genders of kids (I always use the insiminator and the Tombstone of L&D to make babies right away into children because I can't stand dealing with babies/toddlers.) The game for some reason likes to give you like 5 or 6 boys/girls in a row.

[Havisham]

I usually just take what comes to my sims, but if I have a ton of boys filling my neighborhood with the same last name I go on a girl binge. Who needs five Lotharios on the loose? :)

[SusannaG]

There's a pretty serious weighting towards males in the current younger generation - 14 boys to 4 girls in the current baby/toddler/child population. I generally take what I get.

[ForeverCamp]

I usually just take what comes to my sims, but if I have a ton of boys filling my neighborhood with the same last name I go on a girl binge. Who needs five Lotharios on the loose? :)

LOL. Current number of Lotharios (based solely on last name, not ancestry) in my hood:

34...

[XTremeGnomeS]

I don't really care which gender it is either, usually. Sometimes I get an inspiration for a plot involving a specific person, but other than that it's not a big deal.

[XTremeGnomeS]

HA! Oh Don Lothario, how I celebrate at your absence...

[XTremeGnomeS]

And they don't have to pay to adopt children, or wait years for them to actually come to live with them!

[Lady Scarlet]

Well, like many people who posted here, I can say that most of the time I'm ok with whatever I get.Boy or girl, I'm fine with it ^^
But my game is kind of mad at me and because of that I get too many girls and not enough boys >.> One boy for every 2.5 girls born in game >.> So I have to admit that sometimes I save and wait for the woman to give birth.Then I quit and retry for a couple of times until I get what I want.It's quite complicated and it takes lot of time, but it's great for stories and challenges (even if I feel like I'm cheating).

[MattShizzle]

Yeah, sometimes when I wanted a particular gender I've had to leave and start again 8 or more times to get what I wanted.

[HelloBethy]

I prefer having girls because most of my cc is for females. Of course, I do let some sims have boys to balance everything out.

[vertigoinyellow]

I just take what I get. It would feel to cheaty to me to reload. I just started a new neighborhood and there have mostly been boys(4 boys, 1 girl), and I don't mind. A lot of my sims marry townies anyways.

[poisonapple88]

I take whatever the game gives me. I have a ton of CC so any baby I get will end up looking cute. At least, 99% of the time. I do get the odd-balls. I did have a genius idea of naming a future family's Sims after Microsoft Office fonts. I thought Arial, Roman, Papyrus, Calibri, and such would be really cute.

[Roseblossom90]

I take whatever the game gives me. I have a ton of CC so any baby I get will end up looking cute. At least, 99% of the time. I do get the odd-balls. I did have a genius idea of naming a future family's Sims after Microsoft Office fonts. I thought Arial, Roman, Papyrus, Calibri, and such would be really cute.


You know, that would be a good idea for use in the 100 Baby Challenge. :lol:

[rogue_55]

Angela (Pleasant) Broke recently gave birth to twins in my game. I wanted her to have twins, but I wanted her to have a boy and a girl. Of course she defied me and had two girls, so I exited the lot without saving and made her go through the agony of giving birth again. Thankfully, she had a boy and a girl the next time.

[ForeverCamp]

I take whatever the game gives me. I have a ton of CC so any baby I get will end up looking cute. At least, 99% of the time. I do get the odd-balls. I did have a genius idea of naming a future family's Sims after Microsoft Office fonts. I thought Arial, Roman, Papyrus, Calibri, and such would be really cute.

You just decided the theme for the next family to start having kids in Pleasantview. Thanks! :lol:

[SingleClawDesigns]

The only time I ever really save before birth if i don't like the result is with Brandi Broke in the megahood. Because it's semi fixed she's able to have a girl so I usually opt for twins ,a boy and a girl. Other then that I could care less what they get. It doesn't matter to me if there's a skewed proportion to one gender or another as I wouldn't really care if the gay population went up in game. Last check ACR said there were only 28 gay sims in my hood which was the megahood so I would have to think that the number would be even smaller for just a normal hood. And that was also after randomization.

I actually took out the trip and quads hack because I was having difficulty deciding the genders of the combos I wanted when it actually happened. And that would mean probably about 50 saves and quits before I got the right genders and then even skintone preferences for them as well. Really it all comes down to the control level you want over your sims. Though I'm sure there are some people who actually scream at a vagina during pregnancy that the unborn fetus will be a particular gender no matter what. That's what happens when positive thinking becomes derangement.

[lauratje86]

I take whatever the game gives me. I have a ton of CC so any baby I get will end up looking cute. At least, 99% of the time. I do get the odd-balls. I did have a genius idea of naming a future family's Sims after Microsoft Office fonts. I thought Arial, Roman, Papyrus, Calibri, and such would be really cute.

I love this idea! The next one of my Danselle Cove families to start having children with no pre-decided theme for names is going to be having Microsoft Office font names for sure :-)

[Selly_2009]

Oh yes... I pity the poor child who gets called Wingdings! :rofl:

[SimMegaptera]

I go with whatever baby they have randomly. The only time I don't is if I'm trying to build a family a certain way. I want to build a family with mom and dad, grandma, and a ton of little girls. Maybe the only other male in the house will be the dog. :D In that case, whenever they have/adopt a kid, I'll save it one sim hour before the birth/arrival, and if it turns out to be a boy I'll quit without saving and try again.

[julmoo]

I always go with what the game gives me, I only randomize the number of children they're having (Triplets & Quads mod).
It's frustrating to have nothing but boys in a family though. In the second generation there will be only one family name in the whole 'hood -.-

[SimMegaptera]

It's frustrating to have nothing but boys in a family though. In the second generation there will be only one family name in the whole 'hood -.-

You can change that just by having the ladies propose marriage. :) I don't think it matters who proposes engagement. But when they do the actual marriage, control the woman and have her marry the man rather than vice versa. After they're married he'll take her surname.

Unless of course you have a mod that makes the guy's name always take precedence, of course.

[julmoo]

I have MATY's "traditional marriage" mod that doesn't care who is proposing to get married xD
However gay couples both keep their own names.

I'll just throw some CAS Sims in to even the gender ratio out.

[The SimWhisperer]

For the most part, I tend to keep what I get. But sometimes, I have a name I really want to use, and I don't want another pregancy for that family. Although, I know unisex names could work if that were to happen. However, I really can't justify a boy named Sarah! Regarldess of the sex, I always save before my Sims have a baby.

[TychoH]

At first I keeped what I got. Later I choosed the gender based on what gender their future spouse (if already born) got - all my couples are male/female. Even later I keeped what I got. Now I'm back to choosing the gender, because of population controll.

[katya_stevens]

For the majority of the time, I keep whatever the game gives me. The exception is when Trips&Quads decides to give me a ton of children when the family already has a ton. Example: the Meeker-Feverstein household had two adults, one teen, one child and two babies. Wendy got pregnant, and then a few hours later so did her teen daughter Ruby. The time comes for the birth and Wendy gives me triplets, so I exit without saving, roll the die in CAS a few more times, and come back: she still gives me triplets, so I force one baby. A few hours later Ruby gives birth to twins, so I exited again without saving and force one child for her.

The first births after that I kept whichever genders the game gave me, but I was not going to deal with five babies (and later on seven toddlers at various stages of their life bar).

[Firelira78]

I mostly 'fix' the future spouse of a sim with a playable as soon as they're born/created in CAS. Thus, if there are twin boys born in a family, I really try that the next 2 babies(unrelated to them) born in the neighborhood are girls so they can be matched as soon as they all grow up to be teens.

It is true though, the whole "exiting to the neighborhood" without saving again and again till the desired gendered baby is born, gets quite tiresome. Wish there was something to guarantee the desired gender, like there is cheesecake to guarantee twins.

Sometimes when I'm too bored or I've failed many times , I accept the gender I get and decide to create the spouse for the 'unmatched' kids later in CAS.

Also, in some families, whose last names I really want many sims over the ages to keep, I strive for a male child because I want the kid to 'hold' the family last name when he grows up and marries. I have a very traditional style of gameplay. :)

[funkygirl147]

I'm perfectly fine with random choice. Unless my sim keeps having all boys or girls and I want to have a different gender baby.

[NaeShelle]

Usually I'm fine with random choices, but, sometimes (OK, 80% of the time), I must have a girl.

Because girls are just better. And boys drool and live on Mars (or something like that).

I find my there are two Sims that my CAS Sims can mate with and just have gorgeous looking children - so, I always have them do. After that, their offspring have gorgeous (or not semi-atrocious) looking children, but, the girls have always looked best.

Not to mention I can get away with naming girls things like "Remington Parker", "Prosper", "Continuum", etc.

[dinucits]

My game is obsessed with girls. I do prefer having girls but now it's been 6 or 7 of them in a row, and I need a couple of boys to balance things out. I guess I'll have to do that thing with exiting the game next time there will be a birth.