The 2015 parenting trends you'll love (and despise).

This is what you’ll find yourself getting into – or complaining about – this year.

While some parenting trends stick around forever, there are always a few new ones to get used to.

Here are the 10 parenting trends you will see a lot more of in 2015.

Early pregnancy reveals.

We share every tiny detail of our lives on Facebook. (Bruised foot! Sausages for dinner!) Who can possibly hang on to news as exciting as pregnancy?

The 12-week mark seems an impossibly long time away. Sure, it takes a few weeks to come up with a really creative way to announce that there’s a baby on the way, but beyond that, why wait?

Gender-reveal cakes.

It always seemed like a bit of an anti-climax to find out at the ultrasound that you were having a boy or a girl. Such a great dramatic moment wasted.

So now you ask the ultrasound technician to write the gender of your unborn baby on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope.

You hand the envelope to a baker and ask them to bake either a pink or a blue cake and cover it with white icing. Then you hold a party and cut the cake open, revealing the answer to a captive audience.

What could possibly go wrong?

Mixed baby showers.

Nowadays, it’s standard for dads to change nappies and get up during the night when the baby is crying. Hell, some of them even try to breastfeed.

So why shouldn’t they be invited along to baby showers? Apparently, at mixed baby showers, the games are more fun and more likely to involve beer.

Dadchelor parties.

This is when a man goes on one last huge night out (or huge weekend away) with his mates before becoming a parent.

As with bachelor parties, these should be held well in advance of the due date. A hungover dad-to-be moaning about how bad he feels is not the person you need beside you when you're in labour.

Weirder-the-better baby names.

It used to be mainly celebrities who would give their kids names like North West, Royal Reign and Bronx Mowgli.

But now, thanks to social media, we're all celebrities, aren't we?

So our kids deserve weird names too.  South East, anyone?

Extreme diets for little kids.

Is it okay to put a baby or a toddler on a paleo diet?

Health experts say no. Right, then.

Au pairs.

Trying to find childcare - let alone good-quality childcare that won't eat up your whole salary - can be a bit of a nightmare, frankly. So it's no wonder more parents are choosing to have young women from overseas living in the spare bedroom and looking after their kids.

Plus, it sounds fabulous just saying it: "My au pair..."

Anti-anti-vaxers.

With a rise in parents choosing not to vaccinate their kids, there's also been a rise in other parents getting really, really annoyed with them.

Some states have brought in a "no jab, no play" policy for childcare centres, and more and more people are expected to take on this policy personally - as in the US, where parents often won't let their kids play with unvaccinated kids.

Rethinking pink.

Not everyone wants to dress their little girl in a pink tutu and their son in a blue t-shirt with earth-moving equipment on it. New clothing labels are giving parents more options. Nat Bassingthwaighte 's line of kids' clothes has lots of black, white and grey outfits for both boys and girls. And then there's...

Barbie guilt.

No-gender December has had a lingering effect.

Not saying people have given up buying dolls for girls, but worry has started to creep into some parents' minds about whether they're screwing up their daughters' lives by doing it.

Where's mining engineer Barbie when you need her?

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