It's official! Weird Hollywood baby names like Apple and Pilot Inspektor are out, and old-fashioned names like Pearl and Gloria are in. Jack Osbourne and his fiance, Lisa Stelly, chose the first, and Maggie Gyllenhaal and husband Peter Sarsgaard chose the second.

And now there seems to be a trend towards giving girls a traditional boy name. Jessica Simpson just named her newborn daughter Maxwell Drew. And Levi Johnson, father of Sarah Palin's grandchild, is going to name his soon-to-be-born baby girl after a gun: Beretta. Okay, guns aren't male or female, really. But they're kinda mannish to me.

The world has gone mad. However, if you like the idea of giving your baby girl a boy's name, there's a place you can get some great ideas.

When my twin babies were just a few months old, we were told that both of them had flat spots on their heads, and if we didn't intervene with physical therapy, they would likely need helmets. At the time, I was really upset, convinced it was my fault for letting them nap in their carseats. I posted about it back then...and got several nasty (and misinformed) comments that did nothing to ease my new Mom guilt. 

We did months of physical therapy and stretches, tried repositioning, but in the end, none of it worked -- at 7 months old, they both got DOC Band helmets to help reshape their heads. To the haters out there, no, they didn't get plagiocephaly and brachycephaly because I didn't hold them enough. They got it because they were full-term twins with large heads, lodged in my small pelvis. And sleeping on their backs didn't help. We were encouraged by two separate doctors to get our boys the helmets. And I'm so glad we did.

It took me years to leave my girls with a babysitter. But now there are days when I really just need the down time; a couple hours to be in quiet and hear my own thoughts, remember a grocery list, or finish a sentence without interruption. On the rare occasions I need a sitter, it sometimes seems like I'd do just about anything to get those few precious moments of freedom. Even lie.

After all, I want to make sure the sitter won't be scared off by what really happens in my house. You know what I mean, right?

Here are a few white lies to try to ensure you can get a sitter who will care for your kids.

Many of you have read the tragic story of the Houston mom, Kayla Marie Golden, who was shot by Verna McClain when she decided to steal Ms. Golden’s 3-day-old infant, Keegan Schuchardt.

This story breaks my heart for everyone involved: Keegan, who will never know the mother who loved him so much that she gave her life for him; Keith Schuchardt, who will have to raise Keegan and his older sibling alone; and Linda Golden, Kayla’s mother who lost her own child too soon.

Most babies have fairly a predictable sense of humor and often the thing that makes them happiest is your big, smiling face. Fortunately, babies don't care if we're wearing makeup, they think we smell like love itself, and your coffee-stained bathrobe feels just as wonderful to them whether it's been washed this week or not. If your baby could talk she'd say, "Mom, don't worry about the zit on your nose, let's both hide under this blanket for awhile. There, isn't that cozy?" (Your baby is off-the-charts empathetic, by the way -- most kids aren't that tuned in until they're seven. What an amazing parent you are!)

As babies get into their first year, though, it's fun to find new ways to crack them up.

1. Feathers. For the baby who doesn't like being aggressively tickled, a feather can do the trick. (Freeze the feather overnight first to kill anything that might be living in it. Ugh, or maybe skip the feather and tickle her with a cotton ball.)

Do you want your baby to wind up here?Honestly, it's just common sense. There are some adult activities your baby should not be exposed to, no matter what. For example, my husband and I are going out tonight to have a few drinks, maybe some dancing. Do you think our baby should be hanging out in the seedy club we'll most likely stumble into, slightly under the influence? No. That's why we called the babysitter.

Just as new parents, Holly Watkins and James Wren of Tulsa, should have done when they decided to take their 4-month-old baby along on a robbery. But no, they instead exposed their baby to a life of crime. Bravo, parents. Bravo.

Remember when you had your first baby and you were filled with the irrational fear that you’d take them home and break them immediately? They were perfect and you wanted them to stay that way. Ah, those were the days.

The second baby? Not so much. It's called second baby syndrome and it's real.

The first time you read every parenting book. You bought all the right toys, gadgets, and recommended baby products. Everything had to be perfect. The second time? Not so much.

Well that explains a lot. Whether moms have been swallowing handfuls of "little helpers" or getting crazy in the comments section of parenting sites, it all comes down to the fact that we've been getting brow-beaten over our parenting methods since the first advice book came off the press.

What all of the parenting guides have in common -- from 1945's hyper-disciplined approach of Frederick Truby King to Penelope Leach and back again to the camp that favors routine -- is that they are all designed to make moms feel bad. Or as the researcher explained, the tone of all of these books, regardless of philosophy, is authoritative. Not only authoritative, but the implication is that if moms do not follow the directions between the pages perfectly, there will be extreme consequences.

How is it that something designed to help new moms has actually been hurting us?