Though she's just barely showing right now, you can tell that Vanessa Minnillo is going to be one of those gorgeous, glowing pregnant women up until the minute she delivers. She and husband Nick Lachey are beyond excited for their firstborn's arrival, and you know they're going to make amazing parents. Like all eager parents-to-be, however, they've already fallen into a few rookie pregnancy traps.

First up, Minnillo actually admitted to taking a home gender prediction kit ... or at least to buying one. Yes, one of those crazy ones you buy at the drugstore for way too much money that are right ... oh, about 50 percent of the time. Along with a picture of one, she tweeted, "Am I crazy for wanting to try this? I'm such a sucker for this kind of stuff!"

I've always wanted a baby girl. I'd love to have one of each, but long before I got pregnant, I'd dreamed of a daughter. When I was four months along, I found out I was expecting that little girl of my dreams. (Actually, when I was four months along, the first results were inconclusive -- the doctor said, "It's a boy!" and then took it back and said that was probably the umbilical cord she was seeing, not the other thing.)

Anyway, even before the happy news came, people reveled in regaling me with nightmarish "it's a girl" myths. I'd call them old wives' tales, but that's just as sexist as what I heard about the horrors of being pregnant with a daughter. What amazes me is that they're still touted as truths, mainly by women. Is feminism dead? When it comes to unborn girl babies, yes. Yes, it is. Sorry, Gloria Steinem.

None of these totally unfair pregnancy myths about girls came true for me. So I thought I'd list some just for the pleasure of squarely debunking them.

Before you had kids, did you kind of have it in your head that you were going to have a certain number of boys or girls? Because most women do. A lot of moms I know had this idyllic picture in their minds of their perfect little family complete with one boy, one girl, a dog, a cat, and a house with a white picket fence in the yard, or something to that effect.

Of course, whether or not you wind up with a boy or girl is really Mother Nature's decision, not yours, right? Maybe, maybe not. Because there are a few methods of trying to choose your baby's sex that have been known to work for some in the past. And even though I may have thought differently about it before I got pregnant and had a child, I now know that trying to go against what is meant to be by attempting to choose your baby's sex seems just plain wrong.

Choosing the perfect name for your new baby can definitely be one of the biggest challenges that parents face immediately after the child is born. I mean -- this is just one area that you really can't afford to screw up, right? After all, your kid will ultimately be stuck with whatever name you pick until he or she is at least 18. (No pressure.)

As more and more parents struggle to find unique names for their babies, there seems to be a growing trend in using traditional girl names for baby boys and also using more masculine names for baby girls. And while there are some pretty good name choices that seem to work equally well for both sexes, some seem a little too far on either side of the spectrum.

Somehow little boys named "Shirley" or baby girls named "Matt" just don't seem to have a very nice ring to them. There's definitely a line between names that are unisex and those that really aren't, that's for sure!

I think we all know that gender disappointment is a very real thing. Though most people can move on from it and put it behind them. I remember when I found out that my twins were one boy and one girl. I remember the look on my husband's face when he knew we were having a boy -- relief mixed with happiness. Of course we wanted healthy babies, but he wanted a boy, and that's okay. It's funny how now he and our daughter are nearly inseparable -- she is so Daddy's little girl.

Some people, however, cannot handle their gender disappointment. When one mother had given birth to her third girl, the father had the worst reaction anyone could ever imagine. He killed the mother of his three children.

As we've become accustomed to the ability to find out our baby's sex long before he or she is born, it's jolting to think that privilege (or right, depending how you feel about it) could be taken away. No more gender reveal cakes! But some doctors say the information should at least be delayed in order to prevent people from aborting babies who aren't the sex they want.

In Canada, a call has been made to delay the revelation of a fetus's gender until 30 weeks. Typically the information is given during an ultrasound in the 20th week, when abortion is a more readily available option.

When it comes to pregnant celebrities to watch, Jessica Simpson is the current "it" girl. We want to know all about what she's eating (cantaloupe), and how she's feeling (good, no morning sickness). Most of all, though, we want to know the baby's sex.

Pink or blue? Blue or pink? We need to know because ... well, just because we want to know. Recently, she may have accidentally slipped and given us a pretty big clue. Any guesses?

As a consummate planner, I would never be one of those parents who chooses to wait until a baby's birth to learn his or her sex. As romantic as the whole "It's a ..." moment in the delivery room sounds, I found out both of my children's sexes the instant I could ... and that was about 12 weeks too long to wait as far as I was concerned. In Europe, however, couples may not have such a choice for long as the Council of Europe committee is considering a resolution that would "withhold information about the sex of the foetus" from parents to be.

Upon reading about it initially, I was outraged. How could they take that privilege away from parents? Why should a doctor have say in such a personal matter? But the more I read into the reasoning behind the potential ban, the more I understand, and even support it to some extent.