It's a ...

BOY!!!!!!!!!!

My husband actually jumped up out of his chair and threw his arms up when she told us (and make a sort of "yeeee-heh-heh-es!" noise simultaneously). Sam's also very excited because she'd been saying she wanted a little brother.

So I'm officially taking boy name suggestions now. My vote is for Noah, which is what I wanted to name Sammy if she had been a boy. Seems my hubby's not sold on that anymore, however, so let the name game begin!

In the I-knew-the-other-shoe-would-drop-during-this-ultrasound category, we also found out that this handsome little guy has at least one problem and could have a collection of them that might indicate something serious could be wrong.

I'll spare you the details -- and the large medical words I had to learn on the fly yesterday when I was running on two hours of sleep and frazzled nerves anyway -- and tell you that I now count in the high-risk category for this pregnancy. I'm being transferred to the three high-risk docs in the maternal/fetal medicine department at Hershey Medical Center (I was going there anyway; I was just seeing an OB/GYN at a branch clinic).

Anybody had a high-risk pregnancy? How did you deal with the stress and the worry? Did you think at times that it would have been better not knowing all the scary possibilities?