Is there a way to change the sex of a baby in Sim PE?
Orikes:
Seriously... before the next baby is born, like moments before, save the game. Let the mom have the baby. If it's a girl, exit without saving. Come back. Try again. The gender of the baby is not determined until the moment of birth.
I recently learned the truth of this trying to get twin girls. I got two boys, boy girl, girl boy, two boys, boy girl, two boys, and then FINALLY two girls. And this was all because I decided to do some sim surgery and get the right genetics on my alien girls (I thought I had one alien set up to be the Pollination Technician, but the default was still in there, making the babies uglier than I really wanted to deal with).
RainbowTigress:
The exception to this rule is in the case of self-pollination, as in the case of Brandi Broke's third child which she is pregnant with when the game originally shipped. This has been discussed and dissected ad nauseam, but basically, because the Skip who is the baby's father is unlinked and does not have character data, the baby gets its DNA from Brandi, and is always a boy. (There are ways around this by changing stuff in SimPE, but that's been described elsewhere.) Self-pollinations always result in the opposite gender from the "mother." So if you self-pollinated a male, you'd always get a girl. Otherwise, the baby's gender is determined randomly at birth.
ElviraGoth:
That one WAS her second, which was why I kept trying for a boy!
I can usually get the opposite sex after two or three tries, but I've never had it go 7 times without change. I just got tired of seeing poor Circe go through that so many times.
I did have one time when I was trying for a particular sex, and after 4 or 5 tries, I finally decided to quit the game and restart, just to see if it would make a difference. Got what I wanted on her first "shooflee". I just didn't think about that with Circe, or I probably would have done the same with her.
And I can't imagine replaying any more than a couple of sim hours over and over just to get the gender I wanted, unless they're sleeping. I usually save at about 3 to 4 hours before the birth is due, because most of my sim mommys-to-be are tired and are going to be asleep anyway. For some reason, I have more luck getting the right sex if I have a couple of sim-hours between save-time and birth-time.
I've had similar results with twins as well. For my genetics hood, it was important that if a couple had twins that they be one of each. (I'm limiting each couple to two children - a boy and a girl, in no particular order.) Kept getting both the same sex, and it took several tries to get one of each. I don't get a lot of twins that are the same sex, so it surprised me that it took as many tries as it did.
minonda:
This probably doesn't have any significance, but since I mentioned it earlier, I wanted to report that my female Sim who initiated woo hoo and became pregnant just gave birth to a boy. Since I'd already had four girls, it was probably time for randomness to produce a boy, but it's tempting to believe that the BBS myth is really true. I know it's not, but I want to believe.
jsalemi:
I don't know if there's any truth to it, but in my game it seems like it's ultimately trying to keep the hood someone balanced in the male/female ratio. If I get a run of one sex (I usually don't care which) or add a couple of CAS sims of the same sex, it usually seems to me at not long after the game will go on a run of the other sex to keep the total population near balance. Others have reported a similar phenomena here in the past, but it's certainly not test verified. :)
In any case, it may not hurt to grab JMP's census tool, and take a look at the sex balance of the hood, both playables and non-playables. If there is a noticeably higher number of males, the sadorandom generator may have just been insisting on restoring the balance.
I don't think you've mentioned it -- have you tried using the re-randomize function in the Lot Debugger before the baby is born? I run it before every birth in my game, and haven't had the 'First Born' effect since I started using it. Maybe re-randomizing might get your game off being stuck on giving Circe a girl.
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