The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked—aside from "When are you due? "—has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy? " When author Andrea Buchanan, already a mom to a little girl, was pregnant with her second child, she marveled at the response of friends and total strangers alike: "Boys are wonderful," "Boys are so much better than girls," "Boys love their mothers differently than girls. " This constant refrain led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience.