Jamie Johnson, Author at Motherly

Two weeks with 2 kids: 8 things I’ve learned about having a second child

4. Exhaustion is real.

Bottle feeding my baby allowed me to take care of my mental health.

I know I am supposed to leave my personal life at the door when I come to the office, but when you are a mom to two small kids, that is hard to do.

2020 is going to be different.

We want to know that our people love us as hard as we love them

For me, work gives me something of my own. Something to separate me from being Henry and Simon's mom and Logan's wife.

Birth order stereotypes aren't always true.

And then one day, he told me that he missed Baby Simon—and he has been in love ever since.

But you can do it, mama.

I’ve learned to shift my priorities and follow my heart.

I am so grateful that you’re the parents who daycare alongside me.

There are things we couldn’t afford when I was a kid that I enjoy having now.