If you would like a boy baby, choose a female sim for the parent. If you would like a girl baby, choose a male sim for the parent. Make sure you do this right after you spawn the tombstone as the cheat you're using can cause problems if you leave it on longer than you need it. CTRL, SHIFT, C again and type 'boolProp testingCheatsEnabled false'. You may have to click 'More' but one of them should be 'Spawn.' Under that, choose, 'Tombstone of L&D.'Ī tombstone will appear next to your currently selected sim. Now, go into live mode unpaused and SHIFT-click on one of your sims. Cheats may be case sensitive, so make sure you enter the caps exactly as shown or it may not work for you. Type 'boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true' without the quotes and hit ENTER. Press CTRL, SHIFT, C at the same time to bring up the cheat console. It has certain limitations, but if you really need a girl or boy to balance your neighborhood, here's how: There had been a hack available to do this at one point (by Squinge), but it apparently had issues in the game, so the methods below are the only ways to do it right now.
One requires a cheat, and one requires patience. There are currently two main methods for choosing the gender of your babies. You would like your sims to have babies of a certain gender.