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Does the Sim's Surrounds Influence the Gender of the Baby?
MSP_Chicken_Nuggets
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Greetings,
Recently my sim has given birth to a baby girl. The house my sim lives in is all pink and white so it's very feminine so is the sim herself.
Now after my sim given birth it made me think whether or not if having a pregnant sim around such surrounding that portrays a specific gender if it can predict and influence the gender of the baby.
What are your thoughts and experiences on this?
Recently my sim has given birth to a baby girl. The house my sim lives in is all pink and white so it's very feminine so is the sim herself.
Now after my sim given birth it made me think whether or not if having a pregnant sim around such surrounding that portrays a specific gender if it can predict and influence the gender of the baby.
What are your thoughts and experiences on this?
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For girls - eat strawberries & listen to pop music.
For boys - eat carrots & listen to alternative music.
Surroundings have no affect on the gender, as far as I know. Some people believe if they watch the kid's network, it increases the chance of pregnancy (?), but I've found that to be untrue, and it usually makes my sims bored (unless they have the childish trait).
If you eat carrots or chicken breast(I think that's what it's called) which has carrots in it, you are more likely to have a boy.
For twins, listen to the Kids Music channel on your stereo, and watch the Kids channel on your tv.
Some people also claim that if you have a home birth, the color of the bassinet can influence gender, pink for girl, blue for boy, and yellow and green randomize the gender, but that hasn't been proven
Girls: pop music and strawberries
Boys: alternative music and carrots
It worked for me when I wanted a male half vampire baby.
Also, watching kids tv definitly helps you get twins, as I unfortunatly discovered: there is something like a bug about sims always watching kids tv after they have a child and I started getting tons of twins in all of my saves. It was really annoying. I had to remove all TVs from my houses to prevent that.
Not really sure about the bassinet color method (I tried once without even knowing and it didn't work) nor the population thing (but that could make sense).
I think is mostly luck (or unluck). I had a family who had 5 children: they got 1 boys and 4 girls, all without gender influencing techniques. And while playing other saves, there were times when it seems to me I was getting only boys or only girls.
But I can't say for sure that is not a bug/glitch.
I think I'll do an experiment.
In my game at some point, I am planning to have a male pregnancy/alien baby - I will feed him nothing but strawberries in hopes for a girl and report back.
(Wouldn't it be lovely if things worked this way in real life, haha! I'm obsessed with strawberry milk and love kids tv - I'd have a house full of baby girls if I was a Sim!)
First, I opened the gallery and downloaded the best recreations of the Curious brothers I had the right packs for, then moved them into a lot in Strangetown- I mean, Oasis Springs. Then, after a lot of save-scumming (and trips to Magnolia Promenade to buy space rocks), I managed to get Pascal and Lazlo abducted (at the exact same time, by the same pollination technician. I'd never seen that before!) I cheated to promote Vidcund to level 6 of the doctor career, and he said Pascal was going to have a boy and Lazlo was having a girl.
I then fed both of them strawberries and made them listen to pop music - in Pascal's case, this was so I could double-check that the normal method really didn't work, and with Lazlo, I wanted to see if it was reversed (carrots and alternative for a girl, strawberries and pop for a boy). But when the nooboos were born, Pascal's was still a boy and Lazlo's was still a girl. (I've been able to change a nooboo's gender after it was determined by a doctor before.)
So, that's kind of annoying.