thank you for this, but is the first time i realy know about apple have to do with boys.
i'm saying this because my first sim was like apple pancakes maniacke and she had 4 pregnacies the first one was 2 twin girls 2nd 1 boy, 3rd 1 boy and 4th twin girls again
i thank you for this mod because i don't want to play in may next famlies just with mans
but with my first familie i can't see what apple have to do with boys :S sory to say this.
but this is a great mod anyway and all the work you guys have to help us to play our sims bether is very good :D

sory for my english

Thanks for sharing..much more realistic now XD

What!?!? That has to be the stupidest game feature ever (and I had no idea)! Thanks for the info and the fix!

I haven't heard about all this before, thanx fot the info. I think, that's good opportunity to control a sex of babies through food. Could anyone say, what's dependence between watching tv and number of babies?

Thank you so much for this, I find it quite annoying to have to watch what my pregnant sims eat.

OMG TY! You rock. Now we just need to have some one find a way to increase the number you are allowed to have in your house.

I was not aware of this. I am very glad I came across your mod BEFORE I became aware of it. Because, of course, I -love- apples and would be very annoyed to have a Lord of the Flies-esque story playing out.

Thank you so much!! It's so much easier for Sims to eat apples than watermelons and I was ending up with sooo many boys (out of 9 pregnancies, 1 was a girl and 8 were boys!). I was really hoping a mod would come out to stop this, so thanks again very much.

Thank You again. I tried it with my game and the first child I had was a girl and I did not have to eat stupid watermelon. The second was a boy. This should help my game alot because all my town had mostly was males and little females. LOL. You just made my game alot better and easier.

Thanks sooooooo much for this!

Thanks very much for this. I do have a problem ( I think ) however. I saved my game just before my sim wakes up because the baby is on the way. I have had my sim eat no apples or apple pancakes as I want a baby girl. However I have eaten no watermelon either. But once the baby arrives it is ALWAYS a boy. I have exited and reloaded around 20 times now with the same result.. so..questions..lol
Is the gender determined at conception rather than birth as opposed to TS2 ? as I was able to reload TS2 until the baby popped out as the desired gender. Or are there other foodstuffs doing the same job as apples and watermelons ? Any info would be appreciated

Yes. The gender is determined but it's either right at conception or few hours after (maybe 1 o'clock in the morning right after the conception). Everyone who tried reloading a few hours before birth had the same gender, me too .

Oh, thank you so much. It's bad enough that they used fruit rather than a recipie (ANY store-bought recipie would have worked!) but the fact that they used a common fruit for boys and an uncommon for girls drove me nuts!

When i first found out about the apple / watermelon it tripped me out... I kept forgetting and always ended up with boys grrrr.... stoopid apple pancakes

So this mod is going to be verrry useful... Thnx n gud job

Thanks for making this. I didn't realize what your sim ate affected what gender your child had. Explains why my lot with an apple tree has had all boys. Quite annoying, I wanted a girl... I guess I'll know better for the next generation.

This falls into the category of 'I didn't know I needed it until you made it' in my case Thank you!

I didn't look intt the code, but I think, it is coded in a way like this:

At conception the game generates a random number between 0 and 1.

Now, by default, you will get a boy if the number is smaller than 0.5. If you are eating apples or melons, the threshold is shifted by 0.15.

So, if the random number is 0.73 and you eat no fruits, you will get a girl. Eating one apple will result in a threshold of 0.65 so you will still get a girl. Eating 2 apples will give you a boy in this case.

In the game the "threshold modifier" is 0.15 so eating 4 apples or 4 melons will always give you a girl/boy. In my mod I just set the treshold modifier to zero.

So reloading the game won't help to adjust the gender. Without my mod you will have to eat apples or melons. With my mod, you can't change the gender afterwards.

Jonha and MiniMimi..Thank you very much for your replies to my question and so quickly. Ah well nothing for it but to let the kid grow up and then boot him out.
You wouldn't perhaps be able to write a mod that lets you donate unwanted babies to the Science Lab or just dump em in the dustbin would you ? I'm kidding...I'm kidding...Honest !!! loool

"Additional Credits:
Thanks for S3PI and EA Games for creating such ridiculous "features" so I can fix them. "

LOL, perfect response. Thanks so much, that was almost the most retarded thing I've seen in the game, and there are so dang many retarded things to choose from.

Hey, I have a quick question. This won't work with the latest official EA patch, will it?

This didn't work in my game so I deleted it. I have been testing this but whenever I eat apples I still only have boys and whenever I eat watermelon I only get girls... So I'm sure how this mod is supposed to work. I tried like 6 times and it just doesn't work. My sim family had 5 boys after eating apple pancakes leftover during pregnancy...

I do have the latest patch installed could that be it?

It should work with the latest patch.

If it doesn't work for you, make sure, you have installed it correctly. Make sure, that other mods work. And make sure, you have no conflicting mods installed. Test it by temporalely removing all other pregnancy-related mods.

The basic version of this mod (which I recommend for testing of course) enables water break, so you can check if it is installed correctly, if there is a puddle on the floor before giving birth.

lol.
I thought it was slightly clever that eating apples makes it more likely for pregnant sims to have a boy.

It's Adam's apple.

lol.
Ahhh EA, you cease to make me laugh.

wtf?! i was already wondering, why my sim girls were only givng birth to boys...stupid ea!

thanks so much for that mod!