Melissa Rycroft to Welcome a Baby Boy Next Spring!

Melissa Rycroft of 'The Bachelor' will welcome a baby boy coming spring.

In an interview to PEOPLE, Melissa revealed the gender of her unborn baby. "I'm so excited," Melissa said. "I feel very lucky that I get to experience the bond between mother and daughter and between mother and son. I hope he's a little mama's boy."

 "I can't wait to see if he's going to be into sports like his dad or more artsy," she added. Melissa said that she and husband Tye Strickland guessed the baby's sex since the beginning of the pregnancy. "With Ava, my pregnancy was smooth sailing," she said. "With this one, from day one I was really sick. We thought it would be a boy because it was so different!"

She said she was sick for many days. "But finally the sickness subsided and I got my energy back," the 30-year-old reality TV star said.

Melissa and Tye tied the knot in 2009. This will be the couple's second child. They are already parents to two-and-half years- old daughter, Ava, who was born on February 16, 2011.

She announced her second pregnancy in October posting her positive pregnancy tests photo on a social networking site. "Sooo ... It's official, the Strickland Family is growing by one next Spring! Ava is so excited to be promoted to Big Sister! We are so excited for our new little addition!"

Recently, Melissa said that her husband was a hands on father and nurtured Ava. "I totally got lucky in the husband department. I've heard the rumors ... when the baby comes it (ends up) being 90 percent the woman's responsibility," Rycroft has said. "Tye's there in the middle of the night to get up with Ava and is there when I just need a five-minute break. There is definitely that bond."