Republican Vice President candidate Sarah Palin speaks out about the day she learned her young son had Down syndrome in this week’s issue of People Magazine.

Sarah, 43, gave birth to her fifth child, Trig, last April; she admits to being nervous about raising a child with special needs.

“Not knowing in my own heart if I was going to be ready to embrace a child with special needs. I couldn’t talk about it.”

The Alaska governor says she didn’t tell her fisherman husband, Todd Palin, about Trig’s condition untill he returned from a business trip three days later.

“The good news is we have a boy. But we have a challenge.”

Todd responded good-naturedly: “Awesome! I’m getting another boy.”