It's the place where a new mom will spend many hours bonding with her new baby during countless diaper changes and round-the-clock feedings: the nursery.

Wandering up and down aisles of baby superstores and registering for nursery essentials and decor has almost become a rite of passage for expectant mothers. Whether she knows the sex of her baby or not, the colors of the nursery are usually one of the hot topics in baby-related conversation with friends and relatives. It's no wonder so many parents begin perfecting their baby's nursery well before the actual delivery date.

Until about a decade or so, the color choices for baby's rooms seemed pretty cut and dried. Having a boy? Paint the walls blue. A girl? Well, pink of course. Don't want to find out what you're having? So do it up in yellow or green then.

These days, the possibilities seem endless. Some mothers choose to go all out and consult professional decorators for room ideas and themes while others enjoy putting together bedding and decor items they find in catalogs and home furnishings stores. While most expectant parents plan out colors and themes to last the baby's first few years of life, other mothers wait until their babies are a few months old and start to express their own little personalities.

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