Those with many daughters are not encouraged to try, in keeping with general population control policy, but sometimes this rule is bent. One doctor recalls discouraging a woman who had taken the two-and-a-half hour bus ride from Ilan to Taipei.
若是女兒已很多者，基於家庭計畫、人口問題的考慮，和無百分之百的生男把握，醫師也不太鼓勵對方再試。